What Do You Think About Powerlifting?

the question is what do you think about powerlifting and it comes in from eduardo g4299 so powerlifting i think is fantastic it was kind of arbitrary how a lot of that stuff came about when you look into the history of strength so they used to have these strength competitions where they would do some kettlebells they would do some bio stuff they would do dumbbells all sorts of things and then gradually you know people to help with different bars and it was different everywhere around the world gradually things became more standardized as we went into a more global strength culture and you know basically weightlifting was the thing so you had to snatch you had to clean you had to jerk and you had to press right so it was a clean and press and that was how they were able to like okay let's simplify this thing and then we can work out who's really the strongest but then some people said well hey you know that's not actually the best test of strength that's more so power even though um [Music] yeah so power lifting is is more so strength lifting and weight lifting is more so powerlifting but whatever you know happened to the names doesn't really matter some people decided okay let's just bench squat deadlift and see who's the strongest the issue with the bench squat deadlift is that none of the full range of motion movements and and that causes all sorts of problems to the body so for athletes you you can't squat bench deadlift and expect to not have catastrophic industry in injury now sometimes the sport itself will prevent catastrophic injury or sometimes you can supplement around those movements and survive them but basically no athlete should squat bench deadlift as the foundation of their program only someone who wants to compete in powerlifting and and for them you know it's great but they should also consider working on the human foundation and we're seeing that with atg some people are lifting you know there's a guy lifted a thousand pounds the other day who puts it down to split squats helping him to get his knee healthy so he put another 100 pounds on his squat and he was able to hit his goal and pain-free you know hit it really fast actually as well so i think if you can keep that human foundation and do powerlifting like it's it's an amazing sport i think that if we're taking and extrapolating of like god these guys are crazy strongso everyone should do this stuff it's a huge mistake we should be squatting all the way down you know that's a whole topic and question itself deadlifts we should be going off a higher platform or or you know doing the rounded back variations doing the search variations they take us into more human positions you know stone lifting is better than dead lifting as far as carry over to being you know a better athlete more human movement and the bench press yeah i prefer standing presses behind the neck presses if we are going to bench press then we should use a cambered bar or a bar that bends around the body so we can get through that full range of motion so we don't set ourselves up for pec tears and shoulder injuries etc so yeah that would be my take on how to do power lifting for athletes and then a few thoughts on how powerlifters can can stay really human uh you'll see stephanie cohen's able to do you know weighted squats i would say she's an outlier with that i would say most powerlifters cannot do those movements simply because they don't try to do them and so in the west side bible system they do nordics so you can see them doing like the martin st louis type nordic or that that quality of movement the same could be there for the quads to do natural knee extensions squats it just needs to be added to the movement vocabulary and i don't think it would have a significant negative effect on numbers i actually think it would keep guys healthier which would push the numbers up and as we've seen with the split squad example as well so powerlifting love it few ideas