In 480 B.C., the new Persian king sent a massive army across the Hellespont to Thermopylae, where 60,000 Persian troops defeated 5,000 Greeks. The year after that, however, the Greeks defeated the Persians for good at the battle of Salamis.
1. (Weightlifting) the sport of lifting barbells of specified weights in a prescribed manner for competition or exercise.
free weights are the most basic form of bodybuilding equipment the reason they are called free weights is because there are no attached pulleys cables pins or weight stacks they consist of barbells dumbbells and weight plates