False. Both the granny and the guy doing powerlifting training are powerlifters. The granny is only choosing to compete.
Can’t run from powerlifting methodology and programming.
He’s not “doing powerlifting.” He’s strength training. The way you do powerlifting is by getting on the platform.
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No, he’s doing powerlifting according to his program. Any powerlifting coach looking at it would confirm it’s powerlifting training because of the powerlifting methodology employed in it.
You’re not going to get by claiming that if I did singles and triples while focusing on the big 3 in my garage is “general strength training” and not powerlifting training. There’s different kinds of training. You train differently for a marathon vs powerlifting.
This guy does a pretty good job explaining it.
He’s another gatekeeper who is disregarding powerlifting methodology and not accounting for the fact that organizations question each other’s legitimacy.
Sheiko is a powerlifting program. If Sheiko is all I do and don’t compete, I’m a powerlifter.
Please leave them out of the conversation. I am concerned the powerlifting coach is also concerned with making money.
That’s exactly what a participation-trophy mentality is: needing someone else to validate your accomplishments instead of letting the accomplishment itself count. If you remove the judges, suddenly the powerlifter “doesn’t exist” in your framework, despite actually performing all the same lifts and training with the same methodology.
It’s kinda the opposite. Your accomplishment is magically valid because you decided you’re just as good as the big ol’ meanies who think they’re better than you. Because, you know, they actually did the thing.
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By your standard, we can’t trust any expert in any field, teachers, doctors, or coaches because someone somewhere profits from their work. That would make your entire argument self-defeating.
Your logic arbitrarily assigns legitimacy based on who nods.
This is nonsense. All the judge do is hold the Powerlifter to a standard. STANDARD!!!
Your use of “validate” is to manipulate the word to make your point.
Each lift must conform to a standard for apples to apples comparison.
But you already conceded earlier to the fact that organizations are corrupt and not perfect.
So your standard is based on something vulnerable to corruption. Earlier you mentioned to leave powerlifting coaches out of the conversations because you are concerned that powerlifting coaches are concerned with making money.
…But yet you’re not concerned with powerlifting organizations being concerned with making money?
I would hope the judges follow the federations rules and not give arbitrary lights on meet day.
Your logic that you can only be a powerlifter if you compete negates individual agency. Powerlifting is based on individual agency. Powerlifting itself was created by people who wanted to measure their strength independently of Olympic weightlifting standards. They invented a methodology for themselves and only later did federations and competitions formalize it. Can’t make this up
That’s your case!!!
Have you made plans to leave your country that is governed by its corrupt government?
Earlier you mentioned to leave powerlifting coaches out of the conversation because you are concerned that powerlifting coaches are concerned with making money.
…But yet you’re not concerned with powerlifting organizations being concerned with making money?
Even “odd lifts” was a competition, not a methodology.
If the methodology didn’t exist until a competition did, does that mean Olympic weightlifters weren’t practicing weightlifting until the first official meets were held?