Are you related to @castoli1971, by any chance?
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But have you adopted lesbian methodology?
You’re dodging the fact that they don’t put in hard work in the gym. It’s a battlefield in the gym as well.
Your boomer mentality is so stuck in the need for external validation from a set of judges to be able to identify as a powerlifter that it’s hilarious. You’re not even taking on a conservative approach by appealing to the history when the history itself has gone through changes.
Here is where your thinking is wrong, running is a fundamental movement pattern, therefore people who make a practice of running are runners. They can only be Marathon runners when they run a marathon, there is a defined rule set governing this and it is a specific event.
People who squat bench and deadlift, are people who lift weights (in fairly fundamental movement patterns), it’s only when they compete with the specific rule set that they become powerlifters.
We can say they train with a powerlifting methodology, but until they compete they aren’t powerlifters.
Since you ignored it last time I’ll say it again while powerlifting style training can exist independently, powerlifting as a practice — the thing that defines the identity of “a powerlifter” — is inherently competitive. The distinction between training style and practice identity is categorical, not semantic.
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Actually the hard work is done primarily in the gym. In the meet you just show that strength.
But PL is not defined by hard work.
I keep reading this with true interest. This whole line of argument around, essentially, “I don’t have to actually do it for it to count” is kind of wild to me.
And, yes, that’s what we’re saying with the scenario of a powerlifter who pulled 500 being bested by a garage lifter pulling 700. The powerlifter has the trophy, because he did it. They’re both lifters; one is a powerlifter.
In my earlier tongue-in-cheek scenario about running a 5k in camo making you a solider, we can take that one further. Everyone that joins the Army and graduates basic is a soldier. The dudes with naked right sleeves would never call themselves combat veterans simply because they trained for it. Of course they could go do it, and do so much better than me (I’m old), but they haven’t. That’s not some arbitrary gatekeeping; it’s the literal reality.
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Wrong again. There’s something called marathon training just like there’s sprint training. So no, you don’t need to run a marathon to be a marathon runner if your running training is tailored to getting better at the marathon.
Before like 2018, nobody ever identified themselves as anything. Maybe we really are at a generational impasse.
The literally reality is that the other guy pulled 700 in his garage and is stronger than your meet pull.
So it’s what one decides to call something?
I’ll call my deadlift sessions a weightlifting training for now on. Therefore I’m a weightlifter.
There’s something called marathon training…
Something I didn’t deny in my post, without running a marathon, they are literally by the most basic definition not a marathon runner.
Yeah he is stronger, but the 700 puller did not won in powerlifting.
My boomer mentality is curious how many contestants there were in the Middleweight Class that you were externally validated to 4th place.
If they’re doing marathon training on a consistent basis then they are a marathon runner.
Can you expand on this? I need it for . . . reasons.
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My 4th place makes me more muscular than you’ve ever been in your life, lol.
I will call my jogs as marathon training and my powerlifting training as crossfit training.
That’s intellectually dishonest because CrossFit training is very different from powerlifting training.
That doesn’t answer the question
I remember there was similar discussion years ago about crossfit actually.
People started to do WODs and called themselves crossfitters. Later the distinction between crossfitters and crossfit training was made.
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