Dear Fellow Weightlifters: This is to propose a new Olympic weight lifting event that will determine who can lift the most total weight. The suggested title of the event is as follows: "OLYMPIC MILLION POUND SPEED LIFT" For the past three years, I have been doing a daily three million pound lift in less than two hours. The lifting technique is described as “The Tiger Lift” (YouTube, Robert Thomas Tiger500). This daily lift makes up my annual Billion Pound Children’s Charity lift (see Facebook, Robert Thomas, Ending World Wide Dire Poverty.)

This new proposed million pound lifting technique has been endorsed as "SOUND" by the Athletic Training and Exercise Study specialties department of the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.Quoting" "I am a full professor at the George Washington University School of Public Health andHealth Services and teach classes in boththe Athletic Specialties and Exercise Study Specialties. After several meetings to discuss the technique, our department fully endorses this technique, known as the TIGER LIFT, as both safe and effective so long as the participant wears proper safety goggles with full UV protection. We further recommend the athlete wear denser material for lower clothing, such as denim rather than polyesters. Some people have asked us about the tiger poster; note that it is not necessary but you can use one if it inspires you when performing the TIGER LIFT."

I do this daily lift with 10,000 reps at 300 pounds per rep. At 300 pounds per rep, a million pound contest objective requires about 3,334 reps. Once the lifting key and how to use it are understood, simply doing a few hundred reps will become a common lift. The exercise reducesfat tissue in the lowest part of the abdomen below the navel. This multiple repetition speed lift incorporates centripetal force to assist with the lift. The lifting key, however, is the existence of a powerful new lifting force or body muscle combination that I refer to as the "Locked Body Core Muscle Complex". The three muscles of the body core are the transverse abdominus, the pelvic floor, and the multifidus. For more details, see Lisa Morrone, "Overcoming Back and Neck Pain", pages 58-61. I use the "Locked Body Core Muscle Complex" to describe the three muscles when they are combined or “locked” together to work together. They are also known as "primary core stabilizers." I use "lock" for Lisa's term "brace" to describe when the three separate muscles are physically combined together to work together. Black-belt karate master Bruce Lee describes this as "power from the abdomen." For lifting by this locked body core, what counts is how the power is transferred into the adjoining muscles. I lock my body core to transfer this power to my upper and lower body or either my legs or arms. With my arms, this power enables me to rope-pull 300 pounds with a simple wrist twist. Note that the actual motion, a simple twist, is limited. When these body core muscles are locked together so that they act together, amazing things happen in terms of lifting power. The power that is extended through the surrounding hip and leg muscles is far greater than that of the adjoining muscles such as the glutes, hamstrings, and quads. For weightlifters, I do not believe they can experience anything that seems more miraculous than these locked body core muscles rapidly lifting 300 pounds with almost no effort. My experience is that this locked body core muscle combination can lift 300 pounds 300 times or 90,000 pounds in about one minute and fifteen seconds. The exhaustion challenge occurs with the adjoining hip and leg muscles through which the power is delivered. Creating centripetal force helps to delay that exhaustion. As might be anticipated, the central location of the body core muscle complex limits it mobility and what it can be used for. The horizontal sled leg press with its sliding seat appears to maximize that mobility. The maximum lift appears to be about one-half inch with a three-eighth inch average being the most practical maximum height lifting target challenge. (For my annual billion pound lift, this three-eights lifting height reaches over 21 miles high or well into the stratosphere. Over 3.6 million repetitions annually will accomplish that.) The rapid return of the sliding seat to its original position also appears to facilitate the circular ankle motion that creates centripetal force. It appears that while the leg muscles push out, the locked body core muscle complex pushes back into the seat. This new body core muscle power that enables lifting millions of pounds is in a class by itself. "Millions instead of thousands" blows the lid off of current lifting limitations on an exponential basis. I can be contacted by sending inquiries to my Robert Thomas, Ending World Wide Dire Poverty Facebook Fan page. Sincerely, ROBERT THOMAS

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