Why aren't powerlifters black?

Why aren't powerlifters black? Looking online, and to my recollection, almost all the powerlifters and elite weightlifters I have ever seen are white, or slavic, or maybe turkish or something.

Is there some biological advantage black people don't have when it comes to raw strength?

I got to thinking about this because I heard someone suggest that the reason why NFL players are mostly black but hockey players are mostly white is cultural. I don't know anything about hockey so I started googling the athletic demands of hockey and it sounds like it depends a lot on strength, specifically squats and bench press kind of strength, and having a high maximum exertion of strength. That lead me to realize weightlifting is also really white.

Why is it that black people seem pretty strong and athletic generally, but in competitions of pure strength they don't seem to excel?

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  1. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    bro in the US powerlifting is the most popular in flyover states and 'working class' white areas - aka areas black people usually avoid

    there's plenty of black bodybuilders for example - who are plenty strong- and you don't have to live in bumfrick ohio or montana live that lifestyle

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      But it is hard to believe that the key factor to a race excelling in a sport is just if it is popular where they are from.

      Black people outside of flyover states would love the opportunity to win weight lifting competitions. It sounds crazy that the only reason they aren't winning is because it isn't popular where they are from.

  2. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's just not as popular to black populations. They seem to prefer competitive team sports or track/field stuff, which they obviously excel at. Powerlifting and strongman is, on average, dat wypipo shiet. That being said, some of the biggest and strongest dudes in strength sports are black. Ray Williams, Mark Henry, Iron Biby, Jamal Browner, Larry Wheels, Kai Greene, Julius Maddox, to name a few. If it were more culturally popular they'd probably do just as well if not better than most whites with the exception of Icelandics, Balts, and Georgians I guess.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Cope. The only ones worth mentioning are ray & julius. Eddie hall is by far the strongest vertical presser to ever live & hafthor the strongest deadlifter (also by far)
      >Kai greene
      Nvm you're mentally disabled/baiting

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        I hope that being this bitter and aggressive to total strangers brings you some measure of satisfaction. Get well soon

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          If that post was so very offensive and "aggressive" to you I don't think IST is your place bud

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Coz powerlifting is a sport you take up when you fail at making it in other sports. If you're an athletic black guy, you'd try making it in American football, track and field and boxing.

      Yeah, if you're a young black male with great genetics, it's best that you try making it in team sports because you can earn high if you make it. Strength athletes and bodybuilders don't really make a lot of money so it won't be a priority for them especially since blacks are generally on the poor side while whites have the disposable income to take up strength sports/bodybuilding recreationally.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >whites have the disposable income to take up strength sports/bodybuilding recreationally
        holy shit what a cope. POWERLIFTING is now the rich white man's sport kek

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        OP here. I was have been looking into some of the differences in the athletic demands between hockey and football.

        It turns out:
        - Hockey has the highest percentage of overall time spent in a sprint. Hockey players spend 11% of their time on the ice in a sprint, whereas it seems like in football there are a lot of breaks and rest between plays.

        - NFL players are on average 50 pounds heavier, but are roughly as tall, as hockey players. So there seems to be a demand for being physically big in football that isn't necessarily

        - Mechanically, a hockey sprint is using different muscles than a normal running sprint, seeing as they are on ice skates.

        I don't know about this, because I do martial arts, and I will see young minority kids at the gym aspiring to be professional fighters and they will sacrifice their brains and bodies training to become the best for 0 reward.

        If anything I think rich people have the wisdom to not sacrifice everything for a chance to become an athlete.

  3. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Why aren't powerlifters black? Looking online, and to my recollection, almost all the powerlifters and elite weightlifters I have ever seen are white, or slavic, or maybe turkish or something.
    You only perceive superheavyweights as powerlifters like most of the people on this site, a good tell of that is the picture you chose. Picrel is the best tested powerlifter ever in the 183 and 181 classes based on total and 2nd best in the 198 class.
    >I got to thinking about this because I heard someone suggest that the reason why NFL players are mostly black but hockey players are mostly white is cultural.
    For the NFL, the positions are affected by race, the more tanky or athletic/fast the position needs to be the more likely they are to be black. The more based on skill like tight end or guard more likely to be equal. For intelligence and least physically demanding, which is the quarterback more likely to be white.
    >I don't know anything about hockey so I started googling the athletic demands of hockey and it sounds like it depends a lot on strength, specifically squats and bench press kind of strength, and having a high maximum exertion of strength.
    Not really hockey is mostly about skill, although there is a strength component, most hockey players are dyel even by normie standards and also how many black guys live up north in the US or Canada?
    >That lead me to realize weightlifting is also really white.
    It is mostly eastern block countries and chinese/north korean countries, which are the countries that got away with roiding easily. When there was less roids in the sports a lot of the champions were black like John Davis, and John Terry
    >Why is it that black people seem pretty strong and athletic generally, but in competitions of pure strength they don't seem to excel?
    They do just that they either go into NFL and the ones who go into powerlifting or weightlifting you just don't know about.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Nah they don't, you're just coping mr. Black personlover

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Nah they don't, you're just coping mr. Black personlover
        This is a collage of elite raw, tested black powerlifters each of them is in the top 40 of all time raw, tested lifters in their weight class by total and all of them are at least top 10 of at least one of their lifts

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          not even one of them is black take your meds

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >It is mostly eastern block countries and chinese/north korean countries, which are the countries that got away with roiding easily. When there was less roids in the sports a lot of the champions were black like John Davis, and John Terry
      not to defend op but I think this point is absurd. are you saying bumfrick africa countries hard test for roids??? or that american sport is roid free??

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        America actually takes anti doping seriously, there are ways around it but it’s way harder to get away with it.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yep, western countries are the only ones that will actually bust their own athletes. China and others let their athletes/teams know when WADA testers are in the country so they can fraud the tests, there's a reason they only got Lu when he wasn't in China.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yep, western countries are the only ones that will actually bust their own athletes. China and others let their athletes/teams know when WADA testers are in the country so they can fraud the tests, there's a reason they only got Lu when he wasn't in China.

          have a hard time believing this. Wouldnt WADA being located in the west(Canada currently) mean that said west can more easily influence them?
          And the argument that the west has "higher morals" and wouldnt roid because of them.. I dont think its true nowadays

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >not to defend op but I think this point is absurd. are you saying bumfrick africa countries hard test for roids??? or that american sport is roid free??
        American weightlifting and tested powerlifting is one of the cleaner sports and is far above most strength sports, there is a reason why before roids were widely used in weightlifting the US dominated but after 1950s, they barely even craked top 10. The truth is in a western country you don't have the benefit of a state sponsored doping program, your countries doping officials looking the other way or being warned of international officials entering your country.

        As for Africa, most African countries aren't even willing to shell out money to make their countries look good or take care of their citizens do you really think they will have the money to bribe foreign officials or make designer steroids?

  4. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    You have guys like Ray Williams around who allegedly is natty (proof yet to be found).

  5. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    blacks aren't actually very strong, it's weird, they've got big muscles, but they don't seem to be as powerful as strong whites
    i used to routinely overpower blacks who looked way bigger than me

  6. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because even Black folk realise that powershitting is a larp for lardasses.

  7. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Coz powerlifting is a sport you take up when you fail at making it in other sports. If you're an athletic black guy, you'd try making it in American football, track and field and boxing.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      this, powershitting, bodybuilding, and strongman competitions cannot be careers unless heavily supplemented by influencing lifestyles

  8. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    There's actually a difference between the amount of fast and slow twitch fibers in white and black muscles. Same reason there's not many white distance runners or basketball players.

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