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No, you do not count the weight of the bar when lifting weights.
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You can avoid injuries in weight lifting by doing a warm up session before you begin lifting weights and ensuring that you use the weights appropriately.
The use of free weights builds power, strength endurance, and muscle. Use free weights to target these areas of your work out.
These terms are used in weight lifting. They are different techniques of lifting the weights.
This depends on the person and the kind of weight lifting you do. The short answer however is that lifting weights should help you to lose fat and gain muscle. If you are lifting heavily in order to gain muscle mass, you will gain weight. However, if you are lifting to get lean muscle, it should help to lose weight.
In weight lifting you just have to have the weights of varies weights to be able to lift then slowly lift them above your head then slowly back down again.
Manually lifting weights of carious weights and styles to build your muscles up.
You should get a variety weights when buying a free weight equipment set.
Lifting weights increases the density of the bone which helps prevent osteoporosis.
You can estimate the weight of things by lifting them with your hands, and you can compare it with standard weights - which weighs less - if you think that counts as "not using equipment". However, don't expect a great precision from this method.
Yes. And this is the fun part with lifting weights. You usually gain low amounts or fat (or even lose some with a proper diet) and the weight that you put on comes from your muscles growing!