Making Powerlifting Mainstream

Training Powerlifting
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[quote]scottkoscielniak wrote:
Some promoter with money just needs to get the balls to make a pro circuit and somehow convince all the top lifters to lift in it (real prize money will remedy this).

You make it so if you total XXX amount of weight in your category you will get a pro card and will be able to lift in the qualifiers.

Sound familiar (bodybuilding)

The best lifters will go where the money is and if you can get all the best lifters in the world to lift for 1 or 2 events with an expo, the pro circuit will prosper.

Have a raw and a geared division and make it non-tested so you get the highest totals.

but we all know this already and it wont happen…

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Nobody that worked for their money would bury it by trying to promote the most boring sport in the world. It doesn’t matter how much you sex up the presentation, watching guys move a bar from A to B 3 different ways is not compelling. It’s mind-numbing.

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strongman is interesting to watch in the sense that you’re watching dudes run around and mess with weird objects. The crossfit games on ESPN are pretty much the same…they don’t show the long endurance events, then go to the matchups of women doing strongman-ish stuff in booty shorts.

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[quote]black_angus1 wrote:
I don’t want powerlifting to be mainstream. If Joe Rogan is an announcer for a pay-per-view meet then I will quit lifting.[/quote]

Best.Post.Ever.

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[quote]marlboroman wrote:

[quote]black_angus1 wrote:
I don’t want powerlifting to be mainstream. If Joe Rogan is an announcer for a pay-per-view meet then I will quit lifting.[/quote]

word

fuck everything mainstream . the last thing I want to see is Dave Tate on American Midol .

(see what I did there ?)
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Woah, I do not want to change powerlifting to make it mainstream, I want to change the view of it. Like I alluded to, it would make the lifters seem like action heroes and the meets are their battles. You would never see Bruce Willis on American Idol, would you?
Nice one, took me a minute to get it.
Also, how can you hate Joe Rogan?!

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[quote]Jayk wrote:
Woah, I do not want to change powerlifting to make it mainstream.[/quote]

Strong post to OP ratio.

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I love powerlifting as well but the only way your idea has a shot of gaining any viewership is if the guy who breaks the record in the bench press takes his newly awarded sword and battles to the death with the squat record guy and his battle axe.

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Fuck the mainstream watch True Blood…

On a cold Friday afternoon, I had come home from school. I had been thinking of the gym all day. I was hungry, didn’t have any lunch. In fact, I didn’t eat because I spent the money. For the past month I was saving up for something. Something special which I bought at GNC. I was surprised they didn’t ask for ID; I was pretty sure the cashier noticed how nervous I was.

Anyways, my mom asked my how my day was when I got home, but I ignored her. I have more important things to do. I run to the bathroom and unpack my bag. In my school bag is a white plastic bag from GNC. I open the bag, first removing the receipt and flushing it down the toilet to get rid of the evidence. My heart was racing now. I unpack the creatine monster from the bag.

I wonder what people will be asking me when they see that I will be 50lbs heavier. Should I say I was just eating a lot? I remove the label from the tub and tear it into a thousand small pieces. I flush that down the toilet, too. It is time now. I run up to my room when my mom ask me what I am holding. I panic, sweat drips down my forehead and my teeth chatter. “Mom, it’s just for a school project”. “What project?” “I don’t know mom I just started it!”. A tear runs down my cheek. I run upstairs and open the creatine, scooping upservings into a clear water bottle. What have I gotten myself into? I fill it with water and drink it. There is no turning back now. The creatine monster is inside me now, it will control me. What should I do if I die? I cant let my family know about this.

I open the creatine tub and throw it all out the window; a white cloud of mysterious dust sparkles into the wind so graciously. I feel the substance taking control of me; I am now the monster. I walk downstairs, its time to work out; time to get big. Now I worry, I don’t want to get too big; people will think I use steroids. I do use steroids. No I don’t. Creatine. All I see is the weights now, I am almost downstairs when I hear “Do you want a cookie I just baked”. I know I do not have time for this **** now. “No mom I do not want a cookie” I walk in the basement and drop to my knees before the weights, tears running down my cheeks. I turn to the right and look at myself in the mirror. Oh god, what have I done?

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[quote]Caltene wrote:

[quote]Angus1 wrote:
Yeah I like the idea Jayk. I’d love to be able to flick on the TV and watch the next big Powerlifting meet. Don’t know about Pay Per View and all but would be great if somehow the profile could be raised enough for a TV network to get involved. A bit like Worlds Strongest Man I guess only heaps better.

I still can’t figure out why powerlifting isn’t in the Olympic Games.
When you consider they have sports such as Beach Volleyball FFS.
I’d love to see Powerlifting as an Olympic event. [/quote]

You can’t figure out why scantily clad women attract more interest than fat powerlifters? lol[/quote]

Ha ha yeah I see your point.

I was however flicking through my Foxtell sports package last week and came across Arm Wrestling. Yes that’s right Bloody Arm Wrestling lol. It’s amazing what stuff they will put on TV these days.
If Arm Wrestling can get on ESPN or whatever channel it was then I don’t see how Powerlifting couldn’t get at least a half hour segment.

Other sports on my Foxtell package include Darts, Poker (since when is that a sport?) and even that game where you push large flat circular objects on ice whilst 2 people use a broom to smooth the path. FFS how does this shit get on TV? lol.
I think Powerlifting has a chance.

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[quote]Achilles of war wrote:
Fuck the mainstream watch True Blood…

On a cold Friday afternoon, I had come home from school. I had been thinking of the gym all day. I was hungry, didn’t have any lunch. In fact, I didn’t eat because I spent the money. For the past month I was saving up for something. Something special which I bought at GNC. I was surprised they didn’t ask for ID; I was pretty sure the cashier noticed how nervous I was.

Anyways, my mom asked my how my day was when I got home, but I ignored her. I have more important things to do. I run to the bathroom and unpack my bag. In my school bag is a white plastic bag from GNC. I open the bag, first removing the receipt and flushing it down the toilet to get rid of the evidence. My heart was racing now. I unpack the creatine monster from the bag.

I wonder what people will be asking me when they see that I will be 50lbs heavier. Should I say I was just eating a lot? I remove the label from the tub and tear it into a thousand small pieces. I flush that down the toilet, too. It is time now. I run up to my room when my mom ask me what I am holding. I panic, sweat drips down my forehead and my teeth chatter. “Mom, it’s just for a school project”. “What project?” “I don’t know mom I just started it!”. A tear runs down my cheek. I run upstairs and open the creatine, scooping upservings into a clear water bottle. What have I gotten myself into? I fill it with water and drink it. There is no turning back now. The creatine monster is inside me now, it will control me. What should I do if I die? I cant let my family know about this.

I open the creatine tub and throw it all out the window; a white cloud of mysterious dust sparkles into the wind so graciously. I feel the substance taking control of me; I am now the monster. I walk downstairs, its time to work out; time to get big. Now I worry, I don’t want to get too big; people will think I use steroids. I do use steroids. No I don’t. Creatine. All I see is the weights now, I am almost downstairs when I hear “Do you want a cookie I just baked”. I know I do not have time for this **** now. “No mom I do not want a cookie” I walk in the basement and drop to my knees before the weights, tears running down my cheeks. I turn to the right and look at myself in the mirror. Oh god, what have I done?[/quote]

i laughed so fucking hard

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[quote]Angus1 wrote:

[quote]Caltene wrote:

[quote]Angus1 wrote:
Yeah I like the idea Jayk. I’d love to be able to flick on the TV and watch the next big Powerlifting meet. Don’t know about Pay Per View and all but would be great if somehow the profile could be raised enough for a TV network to get involved. A bit like Worlds Strongest Man I guess only heaps better.

I still can’t figure out why powerlifting isn’t in the Olympic Games.
When you consider they have sports such as Beach Volleyball FFS.
I’d love to see Powerlifting as an Olympic event. [/quote]

You can’t figure out why scantily clad women attract more interest than fat powerlifters? lol[/quote]

Ha ha yeah I see your point.

I was however flicking through my Foxtell sports package last week and came across Arm Wrestling. Yes that’s right Bloody Arm Wrestling lol. It’s amazing what stuff they will put on TV these days.
If Arm Wrestling can get on ESPN or whatever channel it was then I don’t see how Powerlifting couldn’t get at least a half hour segment.

Other sports on my Foxtell package include Darts, Poker (since when is that a sport?) and even that game where you push large flat circular objects on ice whilst 2 people use a broom to smooth the path. FFS how does this shit get on TV? lol.
I think Powerlifting has a chance.
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I see your point too. But honestly, powerlifting doesn’t have the dynamics to make it interesting to watch.

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[quote]animus wrote:

[quote]Larry10 wrote:
I love the enthusiasm… but having powerlifting go mainstream goes against what I feel it really stands for.

POwerlifting is you against yourself, end of discussion, I always know when someone isn’t going to be very good when they brag about what their placing was instead of what their lifts were.

The meets don’t actually matter, they’re just the feedback you need to know if your training is on track or not. What really matters is what you’re doing in the gym day in and day out. ie, the process, which I’ve learned to really focus on in the last couple years.

I mean, there’s facebook and youtube, put a good video up there, and you’re a star, and that’s to the people that know and care about you, what more is there than that?[/quote]

If the meets don’t actually matter, and it’s just insurance that the training is working, why compete at all? Why not accept gym lifts as the end-all? Why does it not count if you couldn’t do it at a meet?

The truth: the only thing that matters is the meet.
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whoever said it doesn’t count if you can’t do it at a meet? Powerlifting is what you make it, and for me, my time training and improving myself and my teammates is what really matters.

I see competition as a gathering of fellow lifters who are going to attempt to break new ground together. It’s where you say to the world, that this is the result of my training. You present your training to the judges, and they deem it to be acceptable or not.

These are just my views on things, but I feel one of the reasons 90% of lifters quit in the first 5 years is that mentality of the meet being the only thing that matters instead of embracing the process.