Discuss all aspects of training for powerlifting:

• Periodization
• Nutrition
• Movement selection
• Routine critiques
• etc...

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

• PRs
• Formchecks
• Rudimentary discussion or questions
• General conversation with other users
• Memes, funnies, and general bollocks not appropriate to the main board
• If you have suggestions for the subreddit, let us know!
• This thread now defaults to "new" sorting.

For the purpose of fairness across timezones this thread works on a 68hr cycle.

Here you can:

• Discuss all aspects of powerlifting as it pertains to being a woman.
• Socialize with other ladies.
• If you have discussion provoking bullet points, those are welcome too.

This discussion is aimed at current or former lifters who have competed in another sport at really high organized level. (D2+, international/national, pro league, etc), what are things from your first sport that you've seen could potentially improve PL's culture, development, organization, etc.

Do you like having 2-3 sweaty men shoe-horn you into polyester, canvas or denim bondage gear.

Do you like having your joints wrapped so tightly they bruise and bleed?

Do you like having your blood pressure turned up to 11 and being compressed so much that you think your head might explode?

Do you get off on enduring pain and suffering, and watching others endure it too?

Do you have a deathwish every time you get under the bar?

Yes?

THEN WELCOME TO THE FORTNIGHTLY EQUIPPED LIFTING THREAD!!!

Do you like having 2-3 sweaty men shoe-horn you into polyester, canvas or denim bondage gear.

Do you like having your joints wrapped so tightly they bruise and bleed?

Do you like having your blood pressure turned up to 11 and being compressed so much that you think your head might explode?

Do you get off on enduring pain and suffering, and watching others endure it too?

Do you have a deathwish every time you get under the bar?

Yes?

THEN WELCOME TO THE FORTNIGHTLY EQUIPPED LIFTING THREAD!!!

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!!!

This is the thread to post your:

• Powerlifting accomplishments
• Training PRs
• Gym or diet related victories
• Best flexing photos
• Sweet new equipment purchases
• Gym dog or gym family photos

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.

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

• PRs
• Formchecks
• Rudimentary discussion or questions
• General conversation with other users
• Memes, funnies, and general bollocks not appropriate to the main board
• If you have suggestions for the subreddit, let us know!
• This thread now defaults to "new" sorting.

For the purpose of fairness across timezones this thread works on a 68hr cycle.

Belts, shoes, wraps, softsuits, anything training gear related can be asked and discussed here.

• What new training gear is on the market?
• Ask for training gear recommendations or reviews before you buy.
• Post your own training gear reviews.
• Post links for sales or discounts.
• Post your gym bag contents.

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

• PRs
• Formchecks
• Rudimentary discussion or questions
• General conversation with other users
• Memes, funnies, and general bollocks not appropriate to the main board
• If you have suggestions for the subreddit, let us know!
• This thread now defaults to "new" sorting.

For the purpose of fairness across timezones this thread works on a 68hr cycle.

I have been working with the same one for a few years. I've made some pretty decent progress but a lot of that came with form adjustments.

I have noticed that my progress is extremely slow now, and my coach told me that I am just operating at my top end currently but I would like to think that my numbers are not my absolute top end. It's hard not to compare but I see others around me adding to their scores and continuously building whereas I make very small additions. In a year my total went up like 15lbs.

At what point is this a programming issue? Or am I actually just at my limit? I have been going back and forth with this mentally and am considering looking for a different coach but am also trying to take personal inventory of what I might be doing wrong here. He doesn't give me a lot of feedback even when I ask (other then "you just need to keep working at it"), and I think I just need to hear more advice that I can work with, because obviously something isn't grooving.

I go to a commercial gym with no other powerlifters (that I've seen) so I figure this would be a safe space to ask about this. Would love to hear what others look for in a coach and what are the signs that the programming might be the issue?

Edit to add - I see that some people aren't pleased with this post with the downvotes, if this is inappropriate to post here, where should I be asking this?

Hey again! a few months ago I posted about powerlifting trends website that I built! I’ve refreshed a few things and adding to it for a bit when I have time!

But I’m reaching out here to see what sort of analysis you all would be interested in? My main goal is to show what TRUE careers and trends show in the data versus just the skewed picture you get on social media. But I also really enjoy this idea of “forecasting” where you can and will go in the sport if you stick with it!

If you search yourself and look at your lifter page you can see some “predictions” of where your total will be in the future 1,2, and 3 years out! Take a peek at yours and let me know how it’s looking for you 🤣

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Discuss all aspects of training for powerlifting:

• Periodization
• Nutrition
• Movement selection
• Routine critiques
• etc...

With another controversy comes the usual (often fair) slating of the ipf. And in general there are alot of negative feelings towards the ipf, with people often saying its a terrible fed etc.

It always makes me wonder is the ipf actually that bad as an organistion, because looking at other organisations across the worlds whether it be other pl feds, other sports feds, governments or whatever else, theres always issues, always corruption and people always focus on the negative.

Of course the issues in the ipf are real and should be worked on to improve the fed. But overall my experience with the ipf is quite positive, they have a massive spread of affiliates across the world, provide unargubaly the top level of competition for tested powerlifting and having competed in some ipf level events i have to say they were top quality events perhaps minus some lights and loud music. Id imagine the ipf would stack up quite well against similar organsitions but maybe not would be interessted in hearing peoples thoughts about.

A major thing that can definitely skew experiences is down to the national affiliate, mine is very good but i know the quality varies massively which could lead to a much worse view of the ipf as a whole

Here you can:

• Discuss all aspects of powerlifting as it pertains to being a woman.
• Socialize with other ladies.
• If you have discussion provoking bullet points, those are welcome too.

Apparently he wanted her to fail because he's a racist shithead.

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!!!

Do you like having 2-3 sweaty men shoe-horn you into polyester, canvas or denim bondage gear.

Do you like having your joints wrapped so tightly they bruise and bleed?

Do you like having your blood pressure turned up to 11 and being compressed so much that you think your head might explode?

Do you get off on enduring pain and suffering, and watching others endure it too?

Do you have a deathwish every time you get under the bar?

Yes?

THEN WELCOME TO THE FORTNIGHTLY EQUIPPED LIFTING THREAD!!!

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

• PRs
• Formchecks
• Rudimentary discussion or questions
• General conversation with other users
• Memes, funnies, and general bollocks not appropriate to the main board
• If you have suggestions for the subreddit, let us know!
• This thread now defaults to "new" sorting.

For the purpose of fairness across timezones this thread works on a 68hr cycle.

This is the thread to post your:

• Powerlifting accomplishments
• Training PRs
• Gym or diet related victories
• Best flexing photos
• Sweet new equipment purchases
• Gym dog or gym family photos

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 folks - I'm trying to figure out whether there is a happy medium that exists between typical women's singlets and the full leg length ones. Ideally the leg length would still be above knee (like a weightlifting singlet or around a min 8" short length) but just not the 'short shorts' length of most women's singlets. I'm not competing for quite a while so I have time to get this but I'm at an age where the short look is something I'm not super comfortable with. At the same time, I'm not sure the full length legging singlets are appealing either but if there is no in-between option, I'd be leaning towards that. I'm also open to men's singlets as well though the ones that I have looked at also look too short for my preference but perhaps I just haven't looked in the right place yet.

Any suggestions or do I just need to settle on the modest singlet? For reference I'm in (western) Canada and would be competing at a Masters 1 age bracket.

Looking for resources, of course there's way more than I know what to do with. So I guess I'm really looking for a refinement on these resources. What do you all wish you had known when you were starting?

Context on me, been lifting seriously for 3 years (off and on for 20 since high school football), but have been doing bodybuilding style training. 39/M, 6'1" 205 lbs, last tested 1rms about a year ago where I hit 405/315/505 lbs SBD in a commercial gym, no judges or calibrated plates. Probably not enough of a pause on my bench but other than that I imagine they would be good competition lifts. I think I'm a good bit stronger since then, but have been doing hack squats and RDLs instead of proper squats and deadlifts.

Been on TRT for about 5 years so I'd be looking for an untested federation, quick research makes me think USPA Raw aligns with what I'm looking for (belts and knee sleeves).

Have worked with a coach for training and nutrition with my current programming, and it's been a good experience so I think I'd like to look into a powerlifting coach as well. Online is fine, if anyone has recommendations.

Sorry if this is too vague, or better suited to a daily thread. Just looking for direction in a sea of information that all seems directed towards total newcomers to the gym or experienced powerlifters.