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Article: LA SALLE SCHOOL CHAMPS LIFTING MORE THAN WEIGHTS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- April 28, 1996
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Byline: MICHAEL LOPEZ Staff writer
When Levi turns his gaze skyward, grimaces, groans, then dead-lifts a 265-pound barbell, from floor to thigh, he seems transformed into something other than a wiry kid, living in what people in the old days would call a reform school.
Instead, he is an athlete, concentrating on nothing but perfecting his lift and becoming stronger.
For Levi and five other young men at La Salle School in Albany who have become champion weight lifters, pushing their bodies to do their utmost has important benefits besides the obvious one, a sculpted body.
La Salle's basement weight room, where Coolio raps and Antonio ...