Probably $100 more it all pays shit.
But why does that matter? What about the honor, self-respect, integrity, blah blah blah.
That is irrelevant. It has happened at the highest levels of tested powerlifting repeatedly. That alone proves it happens and goes against your argument about self-respect, honor, and that
“No good powerlifter that uses AAS would compete against natural lifters.”
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Ya’ll are talking past each other.
@RT_Nomad ‘s statement is this.
“No good powerlifter that uses AAS would compete against natural lifters.”
The part left unsaid is “In the kind of meets you’ll compete in”, but it’s what he has further clarified.
The dudes using gear to be able to smash 400kg deadlifts aren’t going to show up to a local tested meet just so they can take the plastic trophy away from the local hero. The kind of dudes that DO use gear in meets at that level are not “good powerlifters”, as Nomad said: they are bad powerlifters. Not in a morality sense (they are that too), but in a “they’re not good enough to compete at the higher levels, so they compete at local meets instead”.
And, in turn, those dudes CAN be beaten by natural trainees. A good natural trainee can beat a bad drug-assisted trainee.
Do we agree on that? If not: at least we have a true disagreement. But what I think we have here is a misunderstanding.
Not at all. You have given examples that you likely have for feeling that you cannot get a fair shake Powerlifting in a tested meet. So why compete? Great job! So, all you natural lifters, the great wannabe O’Tay has assured you that the tested Powerlifting meet will not be fair. O’Tay won’t compete, why should you?