i am very athletic.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Weightlifting, also called Olympic-style weightlifting, or Olympic weightlifting, is an athletic discipline in the modern Olympic programme in which the athlete attempts a maximum-weight single lift of a barbell loaded with weight plates. The two competition lifts in order are the snatch and the clean and jerk. Each weightlifter receives three attempts in each, and the combined total of the highest two successful lifts determines the overall result within a bodyweight category. Bodyweight categories are different for male and female competitors. A lifter who fails to complete at least one successful snatch and one successful clean and jerk also fails to \"total\", and therefore receives an \"incomplete\" entry for the competition. The clean and press was once a competition lift, but was discontinued due to difficulties in judging proper form. In comparison with other strength sports, which test limit strength (with or without lifting aids), weightlifting tests aspects of human ballistic limits (explosive strength); the lifts are therefore executed faster\u2014and with more mobility and a greater range of motion during their execution\u2014than other strength movements. Properly executed, the snatch and the clean and jerk are both dynamic and explosive while appearing graceful, especially when viewed from a recording at a slowed speed.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Hi, I'm naturally very athletic so I want to train and become involved in Olympic weightlifting. Are you familiar with this Olympic sport?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I am!  My boyfriend was training as an Olympic weightlifter!  The most important lifts to practice are the \"clean and jerk\" and the \"snatch.\" Those are the only two lifts in the Olympics."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's great to know and very impressive. A lot of the component lifts involved are used by other athletes to train their strength as well."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I think the hardest part is making such dynamic and explosive lifts look graceful! That takes a certain skill!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I agree, mastering that turns it into an art. Olympic weightlifting is also controlled by the International Weightlifting Federation."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I don't know about you, but I'm disappointed that the Olympics discontinued the \"clean and press\" lift. I guess it was hard for them to judge proper form."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes I feel the same. I think that change was first implemented in 1972."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I didn't realize it's been that long! I think the worst thing to happen to a lifter is when a lifter fails to complete at least one successful lift. Nothing is as embarrassing as getting an \"incomplete\" as your score!"}]