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Submitted 2018-07-18 10:19:38 Parhiz strains during a deadlift exercise as teammate Sadya Ayubi looks on at a training session

Inside the Afghanistan Powerlifting Federation's cramped gym Nike Air Max 98 Rouge Pas Cher , Rasheda Parhiz lies on a bench wearing a tunic over sweatpants and holding a 70-kilogram (150-pound) weighted bar above her scarf-covered head.

The 40-year-old began powerlifting several years ago to help lose weight -- she used to weigh 120kg and hid her ample frame under a burqa.

Now a fitter 82kg, Parhiz's ability to lift 100kg has brought the mother of three trophies and medals in local and regional competitions, which she keeps in a plastic shopping bag in her mud-brick home.

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"Who's interested?" Parhiz asks modestly.

Several times a week Afghanistan's female powerlifting team squeezes into a small carpeted room in Kabul where they strip off their body-covering abayas and pump iron.

Lifting weights heavier than themselves, the women are also flexing their muscles in a deeply conservative and patriarchal country where sport has long been the domain of men.

The Afghan Olympic Committee started the federation seven years ago but it has struggled to attract women Nike Air Max 98 Homme Pas Cher , who are often discouraged from playing sport on the grounds of protecting their virtue.

Powerlifting is a branch of weightlifting using the squat, bench press and deadlift techniques but without any moves which lift the weight vertically overhead.

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The 52-year-old former soldier considers it his duty to encourage and protect his female charges.

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