You gave some books here but i wonder if they will just confuse me.
You are demonstrating a quality I have heard to referred to as “learned helplessness”
Competitions also require being ready for them.
Though this is nice, the last 3 grappling competitions I’ve competed in were also the last 3 times I’ve grappled. I haven’t trained grappling since 2006. I still had fun, and I won 2 of the 3. Got bronze in the other.
Sometimes, we can do fun things because they’re fun to do 
You might think so but there’s nothing formal to back up your claims if you admitted:
Uhhh i don’t get it is it good? lol
“Helplessness” is not a quality I would wish to possess.
Uh come on. You’re judging way too much
I’m not saying you’re helpless: I’m saying you’re demonstrating that quality.
I don’t think so. Anyway as i said ill look into these books. Thanks for the suggestions.
How many posts like this you get in this forum xD
Thanks for the suggestions.
Any time dude. I’ve got more from there, depending on interest.
I’ll start from the list, see where i’m going.
@T3hPwnisher When I read through your list I had a big laugh to myself as this was most of the contents of my kindle library. Such a good reading list.
@cantfitinjeans if you like to read and can afford the books on kindle, I would definitely second Pwn recommendations. Even if you don’t follow any of the specific workouts or programs, the knowledge you will gain in not just physical training but also the physiological tools and understanding of food and how to eat will be worth it.
I would add to this list
‘Never Let Go’ Dan John - Not a specific program book but more a collection of short stories and tools to guide your training journey, I have read this book many times over and still go back to it to remember a golden nugget of advice I have forgotten.
If you like powerlifting (even if you don’t want to compete) then you should read a book about the GOAT.
“Coan, The Man, The Myth, The Method” is a an excellent read about Ed Coan and gives some great insights into his training methods.
So is your goal to get strong and stay the same bodyweight? Not being an asshole, just trying to genuinely understand. I’ve found in the gym that 99% of the time if someone is stronger than me, they are bigger than me. I don’t bench 315 but that is my goal right now. Every single guy in my gym that benches 315 is bigger than me. That isn’t a coincidence. Size and strength go hand in hand for most people.
No. I just didn’t eat enough and i realize that. It’s interesting though how competitions work in low bodyweight categories. Like how do they advance.
What do you mean by “how do they advance?”
We had a Powerlifting team where we had a competitor for many of the different weight classes. Points were won by placing in the different weight classes. We won the team trophy in every meet we competed as a team. One of our team members competed in the 132lb Class. He placed first in every meet I saw him compete. His total was a consistent 1150+lbs. Are you asking how would he advance?
BTW, I am fairly sure he was 100% natural.
It’s interesting though how competitions work in low bodyweight categories. Like how do they advance.
All sports self-select for ideal genetics. It’s like looking at the NBA and asking “How do they find so many 7’ tall people to play?” Because those are the people that are good at basketball.
The dudes excelling in the lower weight classes of powerlifting are the dudes who are genetically predisposed toward maximal strength without accumulating significant bodymass (and, of course, those that aren’t exceptionally tall). They are the exception which proves the rule, because these are the dudes winning powerlifting competitions. For the rest of us mere mortals, we have to get bigger to get stronger.
Actually they don’t advance much. Many times you see competitors not increasing their total. For example, in weightlifting it can take years to add 3 kilos to the total. No matter their bodyweight. Maybe for heavy weights they can increase much more. In powerlifting, the total record is rarely broken, unless some goblin with extreme biomechanics leverages comes.
Look at the IPF. The 53kg class total record wasn’t broken for 14 years, then 7 years until 2025. The 66kg class total wasn’t broken for 7 years until 2025. I’m talking about the total record because it’s possible a lifter breaks a record in deadlift for example, but he just focused on deadlift more but his other lifts gone down.
Look at the IPF. The 53kg class total record wasn’t broken for 14 years, then 7 years until 2025. The 66kg class total wasn’t broken for 7 years until 2025. I’m talking about the total record because it’s possible a lifter breaks a record in deadlift for example, but he just focused on deadlift more but his other lifts gone down.
This is more a commentary on the state of powerlifting in general. Few lifters are out there looking to total or set total records, primarily because no one really cares about totals anymore. In the 80s and 90s, the goal was the win the meet and be the best lifter, as you were competing AGAINST the best, live, in meets, head to head, usually in one of the 2 feds. The sport has now splintered into a jillion feds, the IPF doesn’t have near the prestige it used to, and lifters are more lifting to set individual records to get views on instagram and some sort of sponsorship, since there is absolutely no money to be made in the sport.
So there isn’t any progress. Bodyweight DOES limit you. There is so much you can do neurologically. More efficient use of hormones stuff probably does help here also.
So there isn’t any progress.
There is: just not for the total. Again: there’s no incentive to set total records. Look, instead, at how the individual lift records are changing.
Bodyweight DOES limit you.
No one is saying otherwise.
Progressing on a specific lift is not something that surprises me. In every lift there is always room for improvement but maybe at the sacrifice of other lifts.