He has demonstrated on multiple occasions he does not read things.
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Not when you discount the hard work people put in outside of the platform. Some powerlifters work harder than others outside the platform to be better on the platform. Yet only the platform matters, that’s backwards logic
OK, to clarify. The only PRs that matter to me are on the platform. That’s what we were talking about.
And the PRs cannot exist without the methodology that took place outside the platform.
It’s crazy how some people here think that their hard work outside the platform had 0 meaning as if their meet numbers magically appeared out of thin air only when they hit the platform.
Oh and this “for others approval” thing you keep spouting is nonsense. I love to compete, but im not very good. It’s definitely personal to me. The meet is where you test yourself. Put yourself on the spot to see if you have the balls to do it.
Honestly, for someone who have competed on stage I’m surprised you don’t understand.
How can anyone come to such a mindless conclusion even if based solely on what I wrote on that post? It would require you to have never darkened a weight room. I have never seen anyone who could bench press that kind of weight without significant weight training.
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He doesn’t read. It’s become apparent.
I ask myself how can someone lack so much self awareness. You said a powerlifter is only someone who competes. So by that statement along you are discounting all the work outside of it.
Guess training like a powerlifter is meaningless then. Crazy why even bother training that way if only the meet matters
Does Tom Brady care how many touchdowns he threw in practice?
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Hey just because you have to seek the approval of others to be a powerlifter doesn’t mean that one can’t be a powerlifter without competing.
Why would he practice throwing touchdowns to begin with?
Apart from your odd perspective on competitive sports, the work put in prior to the contest is directly proportional to the results on the playing field.
Poor work outside the playing field usually results in poor performance on the playing field.
You are definitely averse to competition.
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Not allowing competition to dictate my identity doesn’t mean I’m averse to it. You allow competition to dictate your identity and crap on everyone else who trains like a powerlifter but doesn’t compete because it would bruise your ego that they could potentially be better than you. And then you resort to copouts like “must be a social media thing” when the reality is (since you brought up reality before) that training for powerlifting also takes place in reality. Pulling 700 in a garage takes place in reality and has merit too.
Sure it has merit. Good merit.
But it is not Powerlifting.
It’s non-competitive powerlifting. Don’t need to pull 700 in front of a group of crooked judges for it to count in reality.
It’s crazy how powerlifting can be a hobby
A 700lb total isn’t much for a Powerlifter.
Not to mention that without a successful squat, you have no total in a Powerlifting meet. You don’t get to deadlift, or bench press.
That’s irrelevant to the point I was making. You could have a 2000lb total without competing. Competition doesn’t magically cause a 2000lb total to appear. Do you think there’s no one out there who has that kind of total without ever competing?
Why did you compete?
I competed to see how I would stack up against others. Never thought to myself, “I’m finally a bodybuilder now that I stepped on stage”. That’s what this whole debate has been revolving around: the idea that you can only be a boxer, bodybuilder, powerlifter, etc. if you compete.