I had to bring my wife and at the time 5 month old son to a comp last year, just because that’s how travel plans worked out. It was a pretty small meet. Needless to say she did not enjoy the experience.
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I never went novice, and I was touching first time implements for like my first 6 shows.
If you are strong, go open. Leave novice for novices.
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With 5 month old in tow…glad it was a small meet. I went to a state meet once and they just kept accepting same day entries. It was a horror show… over 10 hours in they weren’t through all the Deadlift flights. Have no idea how much longer it had went on. Since we said screw it we are out of here.
This is an interesting take on it for sure. Are you seeing a trend of gyms opening up that cater for powerlifting or strongman? When I was younger (21) my town had 2 gyms (population about 55,000). One was the BB meathead gym, old warehouse type, 2 bits of cardio equipment, all weights dust and sweat and the other gym was the expensive health centre with spa’s and stuff. No one did powerlifting or strongman people just trained, some trained harder than others and got big and strong.
Now there are gyms everywhere and they cater for everything from BB to powerlifting, strongman, CrossFit. This is giving people a chance to see what the sport is about and to chose to train towards a goal if they want to. Some of these gyms have very good coaches and resources.
I agree with your comments about the train at home experts and lightweight specialists. I always just wanted to be strong, not strong for my size or strong for my age, just strong.
I am so removed from the gym scene I couldn’t really say. I know Crossfit helped popularize a lot of stuff.
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My wife just introduced me to cotton candy grapes and I don’t think I can ever go back now. They seriously taste exactly like cotton candy but don’t make you feel like dog shit. Very big win.
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I like these too except they run at 6 to 7 bucks a pound here in Florida.
3 words: Invitational Wrestling Tournaments.
You’re there with the team till the end no matter how it goes. Those made for some long days. 
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Oh god…been there done that with the boys. Those made for some long ass days!
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Yes. Here is my “gauge” on that measure.
I used to do lots of work away from home. When I did I would find a gym close to where I was. I spent a lot of time finding gyms. Over the course of 5 - 7years I can count 10 gyms off the top of my head. So I’m, confident there were more. None of these gyms had strong man log, farmers walk handles - hell I didn’t see a trap bar until I was 31.
Then I stopped working away from home and stopped gym surfing.
In the past years I’ve needed a stand in gym 3 times. Each of these times the stand in gyms has had a strong man log, farms walk handles and a trap bar. One of them even had a selection of tires for flipping.
So whilst none of them would count as a “dedicated” strong man gym (like the one I’m at right now has atlas stones, yoke, viking press) - more and more of the easily accessible equipment is creeping into more and more gyms.
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Okay I see what you are saying. Like the Stoltman Brothers. Great guys. But world record atlas stone… I mean I guess.
At least with the log WR max log is an event.
Confession and apology:
Reading back over some of my posts and my spelling and grammar have been AWFUL recently. Sorry. Along with being mildly bipolar and having ASD I’m also dyslexic.
The primary issue being that my spelling is awful but I also type like Yoda speaks. So my sentences need to be reconstructed after I have finished typing. Which is not helped as I read what I think I wrote. Not what is there.
If this has confused you at all please be aware that I’m working on it.
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You laugh - but my wife suffers.
Or surfs. I’m not sure?!
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Ah, I am not even talking about the pros, haha. I don’t watch the sport.
I’m the king of poor grammar and shit writing! I have a bad habit of not proof reading! When I go back over what I have posted I end up editing most of what was written and it still reads like shit.
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Oh really? I’ve never competed. I’m doing my first show soon.
I do hope its just a group of guys that like to pick up heavy stuff and eat loads. And not like I imagine a power lifting comp.
“He didn’t hold that squat for the prescribed time. He was .0654782 seconds too short. He should get red lights.”
PLing also feel very amateur. In the last 2 comps I’ve seen Maddox in (who is the bench world record holder) - in 1 the spotter hit the bar whilst doing a celebrational fist pump in the other they miss loaded the bar. In both the spotters were unable to lift the weight off of the guy when he need help. I mean there’s 800lb on the bar. And you have 2 spotters there that look like they would struggle with 350lb squat. Its like asking me to spot him. NO - find someone strong. As in REALLY strong.
Nah: that’s all internet stuff. Few people act in real life like they would on the net, haha. I had fun at powerlifting meets, but the online community got awful.
Agree with this, comps are fun and most people are good guys and gals.
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Yeah i will agree… the online PL community doesn’t reflect what you see at a meet. I don’t think I ever once heard anyone bitch about another guy pulling sumo at a meet.
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Not to my face at least.
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