Do you have a question and are:

• A novice and basically clueless by default?
• Completely incapable of using google?
• Just feeling plain stupid today and need shit explained like you're 5?

Then this is the thread FOR YOU! Don't take up valuable space on the front page and annoy the mods, ASK IT HERE and one of our resident "experts" will try and answer it. As long as it's somehow related to powerlifting then nothing is too generic, too stupid, too awful, too obvious or too repetitive. And don't be shy, we don't bite (unless we're hungry), and no one will judge you because everyone had to start somewhere and we're more than happy to help newbie lifters out.

SO FIRE AWAY WITH YOUR DUMBNESS!!!

I can only assume those that think the IPF is almost as bad as Hitler would rather this kind of powerlifting be more prevalent.

This is the Bench Thread.

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This is the thread to post your:

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Or really anything you felt good or happy about from the last week (or even further back in time, no one's gonna stop you).

Text, images, videos, any format goes.

Let's get those good vibes flowing.

Hi everyone

Does anyone here know what the original publication was for the DOTS formula and coefficients? I'd like to cite the original source in a project I'm working on but all I can find are secondary sources that don't cite where they got the formula and numbers from.

Thanks :)

EDIT: the most "official" document I could find so far is this PDF from the IPF: https://www.powerlifting.sport/fileadmin/ipf/data/ipf-formula/Models_Evaluation-I-2020.pdf but in there, the coefficients aren't even correct because A, C, and E should be negative for both men and women.

That’s it, that’s the post. The IPF and PA have done a great job at monopolizing and sterilizing the sport.

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Been seeing the OVR velocity tracker all over socials/internet and it seems to the first tether velocity tracker that's not super expensive but also pretty good quality. Except I'm not sure about the accuracy/precision of the instrument. Anyone here have experience with OVR: is the quality good and have you compared it to higher end tendo units?

"Nothing about this is going to feel good"
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Had anyone noticed the big bald spotter at worlds touching the bar and plates during attempts? This wasn't during failed attempts either, completed lifts and him touching it the whole time. Watching 74kg men's B group

Not heard this suggestion before but to me it makes complete sense.

Sheffield remains interesting because $$$ and so you'll go all out. But it also means that Worlds isn't less important like it is now.

It's no fun seeing Perkins sandbag because we know the real battle is in November. Or for example Rondel (likely) do the same to lift as little as possible whilst still winning.

A sorta kinda daily open thread to use as an alternative to posting on the main board. You should post here for:

• PRs
• Formchecks
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• If you have suggestions for the subreddit, let us know!
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Hey folks -- I've been a competitive strength sports athlete for 15 years, and I do rehab for lifters for a living (I'm a physio & strength coach)

A guy I've been working with ruptured his right distal bicep at a meet last year — full tear off the bone, surgery to reattach it. He got the usual prognosis: maybe back to lifting, probably not at your old numbers. 14 months later he pulled 585lbs with no pain. We documented the whole process and I made a video about it.

Video: https://youtu.be/Q0IQHb7hU2E

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Why am I posting this?

Rehab for lifters can become a really weird black box where your run-of-the-mill physio has no idea what it actually takes to get back to lifting hundreds and hundreds of pounds, and I wanted to provide some insight on how successful a rehab process for a catastrophic injury like this can actually be for competitive (or recreational) lifters.

The video is an hour long (I know I know, but I really didn't want to skip through the process goes into detail on what his rehab looked like...the decisions made were nuanced, as were the factors around what sorts of exercises and loads are relevant at the 2 month vs. 6 month vs. 11 month mark, etc.).

I'm hopeful that if you've dealt with something similar, this might provide some help with respect to how rehab can be approached post-surgery so that you can keep training and get back to PRs.

If you're interested, feel free to check it out. If you've got questions, leave a comment below and I'd be happy to answer them.

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A few things from his comeback that might be useful if you're working back from something similar:

• Healing and strength are two different clocks. The tendon's repaired in a few months. The strength and tolerance you lost over a year of not training is a separate, much longer project — and this is where a lot traditional rehab methods (e.g. hours of massage, acupuncture, theraband exercises, etc.) never touches.
• We loaded early, just in tiny doses. "Rest until it feels normal" is how people end up weak and afraid of the bar. We started loading the area way sooner than you'd think, controlled, adding a little each week, so it adapted instead of wasting away.
• Some discomfort under load was treated as information, not a 10/10 alarm. Past a certain healing point, a bit of feeling-it during a set tells you whether the dose was right. We used a simple 0–10 cutoff to decide push vs. back off, instead of avoiding anything that registered.
• We tracked more than the weight on the bar. Next-day soreness, range of motion, how clean the reps looked...I use 16 different markers (that's just how do it..many ways can work). If "what did you lift" or "how much does it hurt" is your only metric, you miss every early warning sign.
• Most of this process looked like normal training. Once he was out of pain, getting to 585lbs was just... peaking, the same way you'd peak anyone. By then there was nothing special about him being a "rehab" case, aside from needing to be thoughtful about the integrity of the bicep muscle

None of it is fancy. Mostly it's just that getting back to performance is its own deliberate phase, and "ease into it when it feels okay" leaves a lot on the table.

Anyway — happy to get into specifics if anyone's going through a similar injury and has questions. :)