I dont have to deal with it since I’m either one of the stronger people in that place or I’m training with stronger people. And its a more hardcore gym as well.
As far as giving advice. I do it if its someone that I know and theyre serious lifters. I may not be the strongest but I have had to learn alot to get stronger. Theres strong people on this website that I would laugh at, just cause theyre strong and have shitty form.
[quote]tom63 wrote:
[quote]Singingbear78 wrote:
Im so glad I train at a powerlifting gym. [/quote]
Yep. Could you imagine if Hells Angels hung out at Applebees?
" dude, my cousin was like in the Hells angels in 1953 and he had like a Harley that had 10,000 horsepower and cost like a million dollars ."[/quote]
haha
[quote]alexus wrote:
powerlifting is a strange sport in that a number of powerlifters seem to think that if someone isn’t stronger than them then they aren’t worth listening to. the majority of athletes in other sports i know have coaches who aren’t as good as the athletes - but they are better positioned to coach them. the athletes know this, i guess, or they wouldn’t have them as coaches. who should the strongest man in the world listen to? nobody? i think there is a saying about how only a fool has himself as a coach…
that being said unasked for advice… might well be unwanted advice. i don’t thank people for shitty advice they offer me. i might say ‘thanks for your opinion’ in a way that emphasizes ‘opinion’ but generally speaking if they don’t offer a rationale for their opinion and / or if they aren’t interested in my enumerating my perhaps conflicting opinion then i can’t be assed wasting my time talking with them.
there certainly is something to be said for blasting an i-pod and scowling.[/quote]
I think your opinion is based off of a faulty sampling perhaps. I think your statement is not an issue of powerlifting, but just immature lifters in general. Same thing goes for the young bodybuilders on this site who won’t read anything by any author who isn’t as big as CT.
I can assure you though, the older, more mature elite lifters in the sport know the right guys to talk to. I train at a powerlifting gym and some guy with a 1030 squat and 900 dead drove in from out of town just to talk to one of the coaches there (a guy who squats and deads mid 5 only) for technique help before his next meet.
[quote]jskrabac wrote:
I think your opinion is based off of a faulty sampling perhaps. I think your statement is not an issue of powerlifting, but just immature lifters in general. Same thing goes for the young bodybuilders on this site who won’t read anything by any author who isn’t as big as CT.
I can assure you though, the older, more mature elite lifters in the sport know the right guys to talk to. I train at a powerlifting gym and some guy with a 1030 squat and 900 dead drove in from out of town just to talk to one of the coaches there (a guy who squats and deads mid 5 only) for technique help before his next meet. [/quote]
yeah. i think that is probably true. i’ve known the same thing to happen in oly lifting, too.
[quote]jskrabac wrote:
[quote]alexus wrote:
powerlifting is a strange sport in that a number of powerlifters seem to think that if someone isn’t stronger than them then they aren’t worth listening to. the majority of athletes in other sports i know have coaches who aren’t as good as the athletes - but they are better positioned to coach them. the athletes know this, i guess, or they wouldn’t have them as coaches. who should the strongest man in the world listen to? nobody? i think there is a saying about how only a fool has himself as a coach…
that being said unasked for advice… might well be unwanted advice. i don’t thank people for shitty advice they offer me. i might say ‘thanks for your opinion’ in a way that emphasizes ‘opinion’ but generally speaking if they don’t offer a rationale for their opinion and / or if they aren’t interested in my enumerating my perhaps conflicting opinion then i can’t be assed wasting my time talking with them.
there certainly is something to be said for blasting an i-pod and scowling.[/quote]
I think your opinion is based off of a faulty sampling perhaps. I think your statement is not an issue of powerlifting, but just immature lifters in general. Same thing goes for the young bodybuilders on this site who won’t read anything by any author who isn’t as big as CT.
I can assure you though, the older, more mature elite lifters in the sport know the right guys to talk to. I train at a powerlifting gym and some guy with a 1030 squat and 900 dead drove in from out of town just to talk to one of the coaches there (a guy who squats and deads mid 5 only) for technique help before his next meet. [/quote]
A mid 500 squat isn’t something to scoff at. Yeah sure, not elite, but shit how many people can actually squat 500 even in their lifetime?
Shows the guy knows how to get from A to B … but maybe he hasn’t got the genetic potential to squat elite numbers like others. It’s a form of synergy … so the elite lifter is in all rights to obtain technique help from the ‘weaker’ lifter with more technical knowledge.
Now take a guy who can’t even manage a 300 squat in his lifetime … sure as hell wouldn’t take advice from him even if I was squatting less since a 300 squat really isn’t that impressive unless you are a beginner.