…People only comment when your eyes AREN’T blown and bloodshot
…You know more about injuries than your physio, but still manage to cripple yourself in some way, shape or form every three months. Ok, maybe every month.
…when the first exercise of your training is search for a bench to sit down for five minutes to rest of the fatigue built up on the way from the car to the squat rack.
…when you have to sit down after changing or putting up the plates on the bar, even if you sat for at least 5 minutes beforehand.
…when you have to sit down after taking a piss or a dump between your sets, even if you sat for at least 5 minutes beforehand.
…if you have to take two dumps before breakfast and many many more before going to the gym.
…when the pain from squatting on monday is attenuated by the deadlifting on friday and you actually are happy that wednesday is benchpress day.
[quote]jackreape wrote:
You consider “hardgainer” a latin word for “undereater”. You don’t know any.
You help someone you don’t know, or your chief rival, at a meet.
When you have moved beyond criticizing another lifter’s lift, gear, supplements, or fed on the internet, but you save your critical side just for your training partners lifts, clothes, expressions, life partners, or antics.[/quote]
Those 3 should be on a statue, and should be required learning for all.
[quote]jackreape wrote:
when it take you 315 to get to depth…raw.
When small children and large animals are drawn to you.
You wash your gear only when forced to.
You are very comfortable discussing any lift’s groove or gear tweaking naked.
You consider “hardgainer” a latin word for “undereater”. You don’t know any.
You live for stepping on the platform, and you might die for a PR.
You help someone you don’t know, or your chief rival, at a meet.
Before the trophy is in your hand, you are planning your next meet.
You would rather go to the Arnold than the super bowl.
Your toilet is called “The super bowl”.
Your life partner complains about how loud you groan walking to the super bowl every morning.
Lots of folks have quietly told you to give up that sport before it is too late.
When you have moved beyond criticizing another lifter’s lift, gear, supplements, or fed on the internet, but you save your critical side just for your training partners lifts, clothes, expressions, life partners, or antics.[/quote]
LOL - I loved these Jack.
I know this is an old thread, but I just noticed myself taking stairs with a wide stance and felt the need to share.
LOL@this thread!
A few gems I yelled out his week while trying to get a new bench shirt on:
PULL IT HARDER
It’s OK, just shake me
No, not that hole, it’s too tight (getting belt on)
Pull it down more, and can you pull up my pants just a bit, they’re slipping
And to my same friend while seating the squat suit:
Just pretend like you are giving me a giant wedgie
While wrapping knees:
Hey, I need a finger over here
You know you are a real PL’er when you show your bruises to someone and they ask in horror “Who DID that to you?”
[quote]dianab wrote:
LOL@this thread!
A few gems I yelled out his week while trying to get a new bench shirt on:
PULL IT HARDER
It’s OK, just shake me
No, not that hole, it’s too tight (getting belt on)
Pull it down more, and can you pull up my pants just a bit, they’re slipping
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My all time favorite gym quote that could easily misinterpreted when taken out of context:
“She needs a big pole between her legs”
It took 3 guys and a lat pulldown bar to get me out of my briefs that day.
how do you lever yourself out of briefs with a pulldown bar? i want to know, its only by the grace of god that i’m not stuck permanently in my squat suit.
I think you might be a powerlifter if: you get around 20kg out of some gear and are immediately thinking of upgrading
Your loved ones ask you to stop lifting heavy weights on a weekly basis, and you reply that you don’t lift heavy weights, cos look at the records. Would someone who ran a 16s 100m be told to slow down?
Your physio says you should avoid heavy weights and you think ‘i’ll keep it around 75%’ and then you find out they meant keep it ‘cardio’
Your neighbours think you are into some kind of bizzare homo bondage thing. Tight suits, the sound of chains, ‘pull harder, stay tight, get down’ etc, groaning, and some very strange bruises all over your body…
Good story, hurt my back squatting so i’m at the physio, and i say i’m doing a competition (bench only):
‘i don’t see the problem with that, as long as you keep good form. some people when they use max weights tend to arch their backs and push with their feet’. really? 
… is a powerlifter someone who pays 100s a year for physio advice but never takes it?
[quote]tmcg86 wrote:
how do you lever yourself out of briefs with a pulldown bar? i want to know, its only by the grace of god that i’m not stuck permanently in my squat suit.
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When the briefs get stuck on your legs, the pulldown bar goes between the crotch and the crotch of the halfway pulled down briefs. 2 very large men push down from the front and rear and hopefully get the briefs unstuck.
Try using the pegs of a weight storage rack (plate holder) squat down and stick the peg between your crotch and the suit and pull upwards.
I feel like a half assed powerlifter reading this.
I dont own any gear, and I have only competed a handful of times.
I suppose Im a “bodybuilder” who likes to lift heavy.
There should be a category for guys who are in between all about size, and all about strength.
Im 60/40 strength to size.
you know you’re a powerlifter when:
someone asks for advice from other lifters about getting their suit off, and although it would be funny as f**k to see someone rolling around on the floor with their pants half way down, you give them advice because you’ve been there.
thanks for that by the way…
Oh and Westclock, plenty of people choose not to wear gear. i would choose to compete raw, if all my competition didn’t wear gear.
but it sure adds something else, and its an experience that i fully recommend. i wish i had a tape of the hurt confused look that was on my face when i first was put into knee wraps, x2 for when i was first put in a suit…
You know you`re a powerlifter when you shave your legs not with the shaver but with the barbell.
You find squat suit brusies on the opposite sex hot.
You have to visualize yourself getting of a chair before you do it.
Your the only one in your gym who knows how to use the GHR
Your legs hurt more after benching than after squating
[quote]You have to visualize yourself getting of a chair before you do it.
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LOL.
You know your a Powerlifter when:
There is a nice Bar sized brusie across your traps and your proud of it.
Commercial Gym Trainers keep asking when will you stop Bulking and start your cutting up phase.
You spend 30 min with your Human Relations rep explaining that Bragging how you got 3 PR’s last week did not mean you had sex with 3 Puerto Ricans, and please don’t fire me.
[quote]robo1 wrote:
…when your wife asks if you liked the dinner she cooked, you respond by giving her 3 white lights
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this was the best one! i lol’d for a good 5mins
How did I not see this before. They are all great, and it’s funny to realize you are not the only one to do so many things, ie. checking depth squatting on the super bowl and knowing multiples of 45 and 90 by heart.
For some of us over 40, more domesticated types.
*Family vacations planned around meets
*When making dinner you make sure there is plenty of protein in it.
*Going for a bike ride with the kids or taking them sledding is your cardio training.
*When having your basement finished, you ask the contractor to make sure there is a place for a rack and bench.
Your lats hurt after bench day.
You take it as an insult when the pad is on the bar at the gym, and try to find a good hiding place for it so that no one will try to put it on YOUR bar again.