[quote]arramzy wrote:
I know this thread is old… But I think the best standards are the old russian ones!!! The ones with youth 2, youth 1, class III, II, I, CMS, MS and MSIC. Those numbers are pretty fair IMO. For example, as a 198 lifter I got 632.5kg/~1397 and that puts me just in the CMS category. These are 100% RAW btw… Nothing but a belt.[/quote]
This is something I’m curious about. Why is it that when people talk about raw lifting, they type it in all caps. Is RAW some sort of acronym I am unaware of regarding lifting? I always thought it was simply the opposite of being geared, as in “you are lifting raw”.
What’s the deal?[/quote]
The primary federation is 100% RAW powerlifting federation, which is an acronym. It originally stood for Redeemed Among the World, the fed started out small with a bit of a Christian slant. A while back Paul Bossi took over the fed, kept the name but the dropped the acronym and just made it like a normal fed. One can certainly lift raw and it doesn’t need to be in caps, but if one is referring to that specific fed then it would be capitalized. Some people have taken that to think that raw must be capitalized all of the time.[/quote]
Thank you SO much. You have no idea how much I have been wondering about this. Whenever I saw the RAW thing, I didn’t know if it was just raw lifters yelling about their fed or if I was missing out on this.
[quote]arramzy wrote:
I know this thread is old… But I think the best standards are the old russian ones!!! The ones with youth 2, youth 1, class III, II, I, CMS, MS and MSIC. Those numbers are pretty fair IMO. For example, as a 198 lifter I got 632.5kg/~1397 and that puts me just in the CMS category. These are 100% RAW btw… Nothing but a belt.[/quote]
This is something I’m curious about. Why is it that when people talk about raw lifting, they type it in all caps. Is RAW some sort of acronym I am unaware of regarding lifting? I always thought it was simply the opposite of being geared, as in “you are lifting raw”.
What’s the deal?[/quote]
The primary federation is 100% RAW powerlifting federation, which is an acronym. It originally stood for Redeemed Among the World, the fed started out small with a bit of a Christian slant. A while back Paul Bossi took over the fed, kept the name but the dropped the acronym and just made it like a normal fed. One can certainly lift raw and it doesn’t need to be in caps, but if one is referring to that specific fed then it would be capitalized. Some people have taken that to think that raw must be capitalized all of the time.[/quote]
Thank you SO much. You have no idea how much I have been wondering about this. Whenever I saw the RAW thing, I didn’t know if it was just raw lifters yelling about their fed or if I was missing out on this.
