Here is my advice: Get yourself a personal trainer and have someone teach you good form. Try to find one who is or was a powerlifter! If you pick up bad habits in the beginning, they will be hard to break especially with the squat.
Even if you have to spend a few hundred dollars, it will be the best money that you ever spent.
So many people just worry about progressing in weight, when technique is just as important.
You will thank me for following this advice, trust me!
I’ve never heard of PL trainers for hire. But lifting with a good crew of strong competitive lifters will take you very far very quickly. Seek out a group like this.
[quote]Julius_Caesar wrote:
Here is my advice: Get yourself a personal trainer and have someone teach you good form. Try to find one who is or was a powerlifter! If you pick up bad habits in the beginning, they will be hard to break especially with the squat.
Even if you have to spend a few hundred dollars, it will be the best money that you ever spent.
So many people just worry about progressing in weight, when technique is just as important.
You will thank me for following this advice, trust me!
I’ve never heard of PL trainers for hire. But lifting with a good crew of strong competitive lifters will take you very far very quickly. Seek out a group like this.
[quote]Julius_Caesar wrote:
Here is my advice: Get yourself a personal trainer and have someone teach you good form. Try to find one who is or was a powerlifter! If you pick up bad habits in the beginning, they will be hard to break especially with the squat.
Even if you have to spend a few hundred dollars, it will be the best money that you ever spent.
So many people just worry about progressing in weight, when technique is just as important.
You will thank me for following this advice, trust me!
What got me into powerlifting was that it’s something measureable and not up to interpretation (as long as you have consistent rules that is). If your pr is 300 on bench and you do 315 then it’s clear and precise and measureable without a doubt that you have improved, it’s something mathematical and measureable.
With bodybuilding your going for something that a judge sees on that particular day. It’s totally up to interpretation and depending on what the judges are looking for that day. I don’t see how anyone can get into that.
And just lifting recreationally without testing your lifts a few times a year in a meet feels like drifting in limbo with no real goals to attain. I never make any great improvements while lifting that way.