There are 4 broad categories of "disciplines" making use of weights. They are:
    1) Olympic Lifting (Afrikaans = Gewigoptel);
    2) Power Lifting (Afrikaans = Kragoptel);
    3) Bodybuilding (Afrikaans = Ligaamsbou);
    4) Weight training for other sports;

Olympic Lifting:  this consisted of 3 particular "lifts" (later reduced to 2 lifts) done in particular ways and it has it’s own system of training for these lifts, the aim being to lift weights as heavy as possible in the ways/styles particular to this discipline which, surpringly to most people,required fast reflexes.  This discipline has been around for many years;

Power Lifting:  this consists of 3 particular "lifts" (different to "Olympic Lifts") and it also has it’s own system of training, again, the aim being to lift weights as heavy as possible in the ways/styles particular to this discipline.  In it's official modern form, this discipline has only been around since the early 1960s;

Bodybuilding:  this can consist of hundreds of different exercises and lifts with weights and "machines" and the aim is of course to develop massive musculature all over the body.

Weight training for other sports:  this generally consists of more exercises and lifts than Olympic and Power lifting but not as many as in Bodybuilding and geberally the wieghts used are not quite as heavy as in the previous 3 disciplies.

When one was involved in any of the 4 aspects of weights, but mainly the first 3, you were said to be part of the "Iron Game" and the weights were often referred to as "the iron pills" (Afrikaans = "yster pille"!!)

Some interesting points:

• Training in Bodybuilding can and often does make use of the lifts done in the first two disciplines;
• When Powerlifting was first organised as an official discipline, many of the first powerlifters were also Olympic Lifters but as the "sport" matured there was less and less of this – both disciplines require too much specialised training for any athlete to be able to devote time to both!!
• When Powerlifting was first organised as an official discipline, many of the first powerlifters were also Bodybuilders but, although the Bodybuilders managed to "outlast" the Olympic Lifters here, eventually the same thing happened – normally no one person can devote the serious time to both disciplines.
• The heaviest weights used in any of the 4 disciplines are used in Powerlifting!!!