Considering the alternative of ass and balls smell, I’d much prefer tiger balm.
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Doesn’t matter what a steroid user looks like.
You have to look at people who don’t use, and you see that powerlifting is awful.
I would consider American Football to be one of the most entertaining sports out there.
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Pretty much anyone who pursues their goals at a mediocre level will have mediocre results. Drugs aren’t necessary, obviously.
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I’ve never really thought about it before but that’s probably why I don’t like powerlifting much either. The top guys are great to watch but its everything in-between that is horrible, and when you start competing that’s 100% of the people you complete with because your first meets won’t be at the national level, and honestly for most people they never will. Also with local meets the number of weight classes and participants everyone is only competing with 1-2 other people, so like 50% of the people get to say they won.
Even the top 10% are horrible to watch. They are great to YOUTUBE, but going an watching an actual powerlifting meet is just awful. Not a spectator sport.
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I was just joking. I don’t follow any of these sports much.
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Yeah I actually prefer gym lifts more, if anything the plates are recognizable (not the KG competition plates) so without seeing the weight number I can at least think “that’s impressive”. Also it doesn’t need to be a 1RM, like a top guy doing a 5RM at 9RPE, impressive, or even 1 rep at like 5 RPE if the weight is big. And there is lift variations so you get more than just 3 specific lifts you can watch. I don’t care about the judging aspect of powerlifting, the whole “if its not on a platform it doesn’t count”, if it looks good to me that’s all that matters.
Regarding the KG thing, I’ve found myself doing this a lot on an “impressive lift”
- First look of lift, not impressed
- Convert bar weight to lbs, okay that is decent
- Convert bodyweight to lbs, okay that is impressive.
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I believe you quoted me quoting someone else, good sir. I think I’m on your side, results or not.
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That, and you aren’t spending 12 hours watching people changing plates and rack heights, haha.
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Being dead serious here.
Death metal from the Napalm Death era makes me sleepy if I don’t focus my attention on the music. It’s the constant buzzing of the down tuned guitars and the low pitched growling. I don’t understand how people can lift to that. When I couldn’t sleep during my college days, I would play one of Sepultura’s earlier albums at a low volume and drift off after a few songs.
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I used to have a roommate who would blare Rings of Saturn and Rose Funeral when he would sleep.
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I used to do this more so than now. I just really don’t care anymore how much anyone weighs really. If you look smaller hitting big weight, thats rad. Also, to add on this, I have fell out of interest with benching. Unless I see someone do 495+ I just don’t care seeing it. Its just a boring ass lift in my eyes now and I could really not care less how much anyone benches.
On the music theme, doing test week pressing today I was delighted to hear Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer” in the gym. “Psycho killer…qu’est ce que c’est? Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa” 100kg push press new 1RM. KILL.
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You should be using more chest typically.
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I die
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If I play that song, I end up putting it on repeat at least 3 times.
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I never started lifting so I could look small in street cloth.
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I have heard Rings of Saturn. There’s something very soothing about that “clicky” sounding bass drum these bands like to use when played real fast.
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