I fucking despise powerlifting

I fricking despise powerlifting
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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I do as well, but mainly it's my fault for copying some of their techniques when all I wanted was to build muscle.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Why?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      My uncle was a powerlifter and he molested me when I was 8.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >manlets
      >women
      >instagram
      >"'i'm an athlete"
      >mainly tested nowadays (ie fake natties everywhere)
      >paying a "coach" 200 a month for shit you get on the internet for free, and still having ugly suboptimal technique
      >filming your every fricking set using a tripod
      >shit numbers most of the time
      >no muscle (despite powerlifters being on gear most of the time, see point 4)
      >screaming and making cringe anime edits of yourself despite never going past rpe 7 because you're a pussy (today's powerlifters don't know what effort looks or feels like)
      >sbd shirts, sbd socks, sbd singlets
      >moronic convoluted percentage based programs despite having absolutely garbage lifts and never having ran an LP

      Looking back, it was kind of cool back when it was mostly untested and still had ties to "bodybuilding", regular old school gym culture. But nowadays it's just a huge npc zoomer circlejerk. I'm hoping the fad dies off.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >no muscle
        what are weight classes, moron?
        if you took literally any powerlifter at random in a weight class that is similar to you, they would have more muscle mass. Guaranteed.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >what are weight classes, moron?
          participation trophies ?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            you claim powerlifters have no muscle gains, but disregard weight classes. pottery.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >But nowadays it's just a huge npc zoomer circlejerk
        That’s literally every part of fitness currently. From powerlifting to bodybuilding to martial arts. It’s all just social media tripod zoomer homosexuals who think they’re gonna make it big on tiktok

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          yeah that's a fair point
          I guess since "strength sports" are what I know that's where I most noticed the evolution

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I would say that applies to pretty much everything period. There are just too many people in the world.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Strenghtlifting is far superior and more fun, no moronic circus contortion acts. Powerlifting has become a joke.

    >OHP instead of bench
    >Sumo banned

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >no moronic circus contortion acts
      >OHP instead of bench
      History will repeat

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This just sounds like powerlifting for "I'm not like other girls" guys

      The one true strength sport is and always will be weightlifting

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Think powerlifting is getting a bad rep due to people performing the 3 main lifts with questionable form and the powerlifters physique is often not aesthetically pleasing. SS/SL were somewhat powerlifting routines.

    For me, I dropped most of the powerlifting exercises and substitute with ones that personally give me best results. Dropped bench press to focus on OHP and weighted dips, deadlifts for hyperextensions, and squats for leg press.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >For me, I dropped most of the powerlifting exercises and substitute with ones that personally give me best results. Dropped bench press to focus on OHP and weighted dips, deadlifts for hyperextensions, and squats for leg press.

      I think that's silly, you should do them but more for hypertrophy rather than practicing to move the most available weight, so drop excessive arch on bench, switch from low bar to high bar, conventional instead of sumo

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        That's true, but I am more like him. Found flat BB bench just hurts my joints, but low incline cgbp feels great on my pecs.
        I found RDL's are way better at stimulating my glutes, hams, and low back. Where deadlifts were just draining.
        Same thing with squats. I do front squats with a slower eccentric and I can actually get some quad activation.

        I am gaining muscle with less joint pain and enjoying training.
        Used to be after low bar squats I just wanted to go home.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >100lbs prostitutes death staring the whole gym after their 1x bw bench single and posting pics of their ass on instagram along with captions about "the feminine urge to outlift every boy in the gym"
    >powerlifters explaining to you why your lifts aren't "valid" in their moronic "sport" and therefore you should change your training, despite the fact that you literally warmup with their maxes

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Just a reminder that powerlifters consider this a proper world record bench press

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      IPF changed their rules so that shit wont fly anymore

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >anymore
        But it did. It's not just bench either. You have powerlifters in the gym doing this too.
        The fact that powerlifting allows you to do sumo as a real deadlift variation in competitions is embarassing. Might as well let guys do trap bar as a variation too. I'm sure they already do

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Sumo provides zero benefits over traditional. Like most the top 20 deadlifts are traditional form despite allowing sumo

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            It is superior for glute building and not fricking your back up if going high reps

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            It actually corrects most peoples weaknesses.
            The top powerlifters in the world who pull conventional rotate sumo in as assistance work. Matt Wenning did sumo for like 70% of his training but set his records with conventional

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I also agree that doing the sumo as I do it (so a closer sumo) is what taught me to do conventional)
              I hadn't done sumo in years and have been doing it exclusively since november (hurt my back doing something gym unrelated), and when I tried some conventional it was cleaner than ever)
              the wedging mechanics and intent of the pull are learnt quicker (and I would say better) with sumo

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            that's because super heavyweights can't do sumo
            but you see that the lighter guys at the top all do sumo

            basically if you're a normal human weight (like under 275lbs) you'll get something out of sumo

            I've also noticed that the better your build for deadlifting in general (long arms, long legs, ideally via short or average femurs and long shins, for reduced shin angles), the less you will get out of sumo

            every one of my friends who has that sort of lanky build struggles with sumo, some not even equaling their conventionals

            so the reason imo why most people get something out of sumo is that most of us actually physically can't get into a decent position for conventional, it's a lift that's made for like 10% of the population

            (not saying not do do conventional btw)

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Because majority of the people aren't elite powerlifters and don't really need to care about their total, conventional is far superior as it's pretty much the form you use to pick up shit off the ground every day.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                idk, everybody says this but I think your arms are actually always between your legs
                I agree that biomechanically it's a conventional
                so it's basically a semi sumo imo
                there was a video of matt wenning talking about this a while ago. i think it was something like "sumo deadlifts for tactical ability" or some such cringe.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          honestly I think there are decent sumo deadlifts (with good ROM and muscles doing actual work), like ed coan's deadlift, or jamal browner's
          I myself enjoy the lift and I think it has great benefits as long as you don't go too wide with your stance (I stick to shins on the 81cm rings)
          Although it really shouldn't be counted in the same category as a regular deadlift.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      what is this?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        A world record

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          imagine locking arms behind her arch and going to poundtown.....
          ....help....

          Strongman is the last bastion against zoomers. It’s not appealing for them for the time being. It’s pretty comfy.

          I am interested but I want to get stronger before I try it.

          I don't hate it and it's the most fascinating barbell sport especially when it comes to geared powerlifting. I know, I used to think it's moronrd but hear me out. Geared powerlifting started because people are always looking for an edge and some guys found lifting in some thin denim can stop them from getting pinned in the bottom of a lift allowing you to surely make their max lift in a meet. Powerlifting feds decide if they ban it people will just find another material so they strangely embrace it. Fast forward and we have insane multiply suits, single ply meets, etc.. But we also have raw too which exploded for a while. But what everyone saw is raw guys burn out or get hurt in incredibly short amounts of time compared to geared guys who could have careers spanning decades. Geared guys end up just as strong raw as the raw competitors and sometimes even go to the odd raw meets. Geared guys who get brutally strong train raw (not all the time, they do need to practice in their suits too) but they don't typically max out except at a meet while in gear. We are seeing in real time some truths about human strength and longevity.

          I find it insane what these guys can hold onto at the top. The 1000+lb bench, the crazy squats, etc.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Just commit to it anon. You will get stronger while training for strongman anyway. The biggest challenge would be to find a gym that has the implements. I still train in a regular gym but do strongman event training once a week.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yeah that’s why I switched to strongman. Powerlifting is so fricking boring and those who do it seriously are massive autists.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      used to be just boring (just not particularly interesting, although I followed it from a distance) but these last few years it's become and actual cancer upon lifting culture
      yeah strongman is better, no fake natties, basically no twinks or women, no moronic rules

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Strongman is the last bastion against zoomers. It’s not appealing for them for the time being. It’s pretty comfy.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          eh, there was something of a fad among normies and zoomers with brian shaw and eddie hall and hafthor appearing in israeliteji videos, launching their channels and whatnot
          although most of them follow them as "fitness influencers" but know nothing about strongman
          so yeah, it has still managed to retain that based boomer aura about it

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Yeah those guys have been building a social media presence as they are not competing in strongman to the same level they used to. I do find it pretty cringe at times but I understand why they are doing it. Speaking of based boomers, the only strongman I admire and look up to is Big Z.

            I think as with any sport and hobby, strongman will gain popularity over time and that means there’s the potential to have the same annoying zoomer culture being applied to strongman. I hope that it doesn’t happen but time will tell.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              big z's intro on his channel is peak boomer
              he himself was really fricking based
              no cringe tatoos, no yapping about how he was a warrior and whatnot, no screaming, lifts in a commercial gym to shitty music, uses smith machines and shatters records after records into his 40s
              it's this kind of aesthetic and gym culture that I wish would come back, just being average guys who likes to lift
              unfortunately I know it will never come back, and if it does, it will be self aware and therefore amount to little more than LARPing, there is no going back

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Relax anon. You're concerned with the veneer that the public sees which is irrelevant. Gym "culture" is whatever you and your friends who work out make it to be. Instead of worrying about the fake public image worry about how you do it.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I know, but what I find unfortunate is that people like us are now very unlikely to find any common ground between ourselves and other lifters, where lifting might have been a more unifying thing.
                it is ironic that the people who have the same "passion" as us (although it could be debated that it really is a passion in their case) should be among the people that we despise most. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that zoomer lifters embody everything I despise, much more so than genpop

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Anything that has an underground which is pure and the commercialized section is a sick masquerade is like this though. Just pay attention to your end of it amd the fad portion will wash away and so will the zoomer tik tok homosexuals.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                would be easier if I were still homegym masterrace
                now I have to see these homosexuals and these prostitutes every whenever I want to lift
                so yeah, if only for practical purposes, I still hope to God this fad dies off quick

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah I really like his videos actually, they’re comforting to watch. If you like him, I’d recommend his biography. Writing is not the best and he repeats himself but it explains history of strongman as a sport and his involvement in it. He’s an institution.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Did my first strongman comp in September was a lot of fun. Got lucky that my gym has stones and stuff. A lot of power lifters go there too and they're mostly chill. Only one that sucks is a dude that uses a power rack to flat bench when theres still 3 fricking open benches.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Same here its pathetic cope for fat people.

    It's disgusting seeing their grotesque bodies at the gym. What's worse is that powerlifting is actually body positivity for men
    Body positivity for women
    >I'm fat and beautiful and valid
    >please love me
    Powerlifting for men
    >I'm fat and strong and valid
    >please love me

    Not to mention all the health risks from powerlifting
    >increased injury by always maxing and forgoing form
    >unhealthy eating habits
    >obese BMI
    Lots of powerlifters develop sleep apnea because they gain so much weight, their bodies can't handle it

    I can go on about their annoying attitude in the gym. Taking benches for literal hours. The sweaty fat guy smell when you walk past them. How they managed to turn being fit into an unhealthy sport is beyond me but they did it

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Powerlifting is actually one of the safer sports, you only max out in competitions unless you're moronic (which most zoomers imitating their favorite lifters are)

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I don't hate it and it's the most fascinating barbell sport especially when it comes to geared powerlifting. I know, I used to think it's moronrd but hear me out. Geared powerlifting started because people are always looking for an edge and some guys found lifting in some thin denim can stop them from getting pinned in the bottom of a lift allowing you to surely make their max lift in a meet. Powerlifting feds decide if they ban it people will just find another material so they strangely embrace it. Fast forward and we have insane multiply suits, single ply meets, etc.. But we also have raw too which exploded for a while. But what everyone saw is raw guys burn out or get hurt in incredibly short amounts of time compared to geared guys who could have careers spanning decades. Geared guys end up just as strong raw as the raw competitors and sometimes even go to the odd raw meets. Geared guys who get brutally strong train raw (not all the time, they do need to practice in their suits too) but they don't typically max out except at a meet while in gear. We are seeing in real time some truths about human strength and longevity.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Same here friend. My gym is currently infested with powerlifters, and they're all either zoomers or hairy fat guys (and the occasional fat woman). They ALL have shit form too.
    The only powerlifters I respect are the ones who don't actually look like powerlifters.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    all in all I think sumo is really one of those things where because there is such a clear cut line between sumo and conventional (arms between the legs being an objective criterion), it gets much less of a pass than varying your grip width on bench or your stance on squats. So just like there is such a thing as too wide a bench grip, there is such a thing as too wide a deadlift stance, but it doesn't mean sumo is automatically it.
    HW8HDP

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Cry for us homosexual

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      [...]
      I pull mainly conventional (strongman rules with straps and hitching). best conventional is 285kg/626lbs for a triple with one rep in the tank, so I've done my fair share of it.
      sumo's a perfectly fine lift though (as long as it's not done moronicly wide). I sure am grateful for it when my back doesn't feel 100%, so I can still do some sort of pulling.

      [...]
      >NOOOOOOO STOP HAVING DISCUSSIONS ABOIT THIS TOPIC I HAVE BEEN PROGRAMMED TO ONLY MAKE OF IT!!!!!!!!
      npc zoomers have killed every board

      yeah, sumo derangement syndrome is a sure way of spotting a beginner who's trying really hard to prove to others and himself that he's le hardcore lifter.

      >oh no.... I passed out... Hope nobody fricks my boipucci tehe

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Because no one has ever passed out pulling conventional

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Guys who pass out while pulling conventional don't fall into doggy style

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I think you're projecting your closeted homosexuality onto sumo deadlifters, would you like to talk more about it?

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              How about you stop being a b***h

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I will surely listen to a mudslim woman when it comes to masculinity, thank you. Saying sumo = gay is a reductive cope for brainlets like you that think in terms of black and white, dipshits that are so cognitively impaired that they cannot comprehend context or a wider meaning. You're just an insecure DYEL that will not post body to prove he is a top alpha

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    I pull mainly conventional (strongman rules with straps and hitching). best conventional is 285kg/626lbs for a triple with one rep in the tank, so I've done my fair share of it.
    sumo's a perfectly fine lift though (as long as it's not done moronicly wide). I sure am grateful for it when my back doesn't feel 100%, so I can still do some sort of pulling.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >NOOOOOOO STOP HAVING DISCUSSIONS ABOIT THIS TOPIC I HAVE BEEN PROGRAMMED TO ONLY MAKE OF IT!!!!!!!!
    npc zoomers have killed every board

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      yeah, sumo derangement syndrome is a sure way of spotting a beginner who's trying really hard to prove to others and himself that he's le hardcore lifter.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      yeah, sumo derangement syndrome is a sure way of spotting a beginner who's trying really hard to prove to others and himself that he's le hardcore lifter.

      Sumo deadlift is attention prostitute incarnate
      >GUYS LOOK AT HOW MANY PLATES I HAVE ON THE BAR PLEASE LOOK!!!!
      Zoomers love sumo because they can put it on their little tiktoks.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Schroedringer's sumo? You are pulling both sumo and conventional until you post it onto tiktok?

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I love powerlifting for teaching the importance of longer rests between sets.
    I don't powerlift.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Why can't graphic designers draw a barbell properly? I swear every logo has a weird ass barbell. Like just look at one...

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