I do like it. Because there is the presumption of the act built right into the name.
Or he can/would say “Thats high volume with lots of isolation. What is your goal?”.
This is a problem of phylogeny. They are all under the umbrella of general strength training. There’s also sport specific training.
Believe it or not, sprinters (like Asafa Powel, or Usain Bolt) don’t train like Olympic wrestlers (Kurt Angle).
They train for their sport. Specifically.
Hence sport specific training.
Competition only formalizes what is already being done.
Training like a powerlifter makes you a powerlifter.
Training like a bodybuilder makes you a bodybuilder.
It really just sounds like someone beat you at your own sport without them ever having competed so you feel the need to gatekeep. You didn’t by any chance tell someone who was training like a boxer without ever competing that he was not a boxer and he handed it to you did you?
Thank you for refuting yourself because the competition itself is built on the practice that you deny counts.
You’re confining yourself to a narrow, externally validated version of a sport, ignoring the objective principles that actually define it.
You assert “you aren’t a powerlifter without competing,” yet competing requires doing the very training you dismiss. The premise undercuts itself and that’s called circular reasoning.
If identity depends on external approval, then by your logic nobody was ever a powerlifter, athlete, or expert until someone else certified them. Yet competitions, records, and federations exist because people trained and mastered the practice first, not the other way around. Denying the validity of training outside a platform ignores the very foundation that makes the sport possible.
You claim you aren’t a powerlifter until you compete. Yet the IPF considers the USAPL illegitimate which is why it suspended it and is still expelled today. Sorry bubba, your meet at the USAPL doesn’t count. The judges from the IPF have to stamp “powerlifter” on your forehead before you can call yourself one.
That’s a lot of words to avoid admitting you don’t have an argument. Let’s try again. If identity depends on external approval, then by your logic nobody was ever a powerlifter, athlete, or expert until someone else certified them.
You’re the one who discovers stranger and stranger arguments against a fact that if somebody does not compete/aim to compete in a sport he does not represent it.
It’s sad if you feel only things under label or bodybuilding or powerlifting can be impressive.
Guy pulling 800lbs is impressive, but it does not matter in PL unless done in a meet. You earlier mentioned Thor pulling 501kg. But why him pulling 505kg and 510kg now were much more noticeable?
It would be insane if somebody could participate to a meet with a month old lift. PL meets don’t always measure who’s strongest, they measure who performs best at that day while judged by others by a set of rules.
In my last meet I did 40kg smaller total than on a meet before, because I was sick. I did not cry about it or demanded win based on my gym lifts. It was what it was. Better to take your failures as a man.
That’s the idea on competing, you set up against others and see how you perform. And it can be intimidating. If it’s not your thing, don’t do it.
Look man, you can identify to whatever you want. But people classify you based on what you do, not on how you feel.
You just said people classify you based on what you do. Therefore if I do bodybuilding, then I’m a bodybuilder. That supports my point that someone doing powerlifting training is a powerlifter.
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