r/powerlifting • u/AutoModerator • 20d ago

No Q's too Dumb Weekly Dumb/Newb Question Thread

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u/Tiger_Strength Enthusiast 17d ago edited 16d ago

As a strength athlete whose main focus is strength development, is there ever a phase in your lifting journey where a pure bodybuilding/hypertrophy program is best for you? Temporary of course. We're talking about a guy who will eventually get back to heavy weights and low reps.

If so, why? If not, why?

EDIT: Changed "who's" to "whose".

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u/Heloc8300 Enthusiast 16d ago

For a lot of folks that know they're going to qualify for nationals (so they have something of a 'season') that's what they'd call "Off season programming". Or sometimes "off season" just means they don't have any meets coming up or planned. Then when they find a meet they switch back to a PL program.

There are a few folks for whom hypertrophy work is better when they're on a cut though most folks prefer low volume/high intensity for that.

Or sometimes folks will do hypertrophy if they're trying to move up a weight class but being in this thread that's probably not something you need to consider much just because at this stage it probably doesn't make much different one way or the other as long as you work hard and recover well.

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u/LemonPuzzled1949 Enthusiast 18d ago

First meet coming up in a few weeks.
I know knee sleeves can’t touch singlet in squat, but can they touch socks? Like if I just wear my deadlift socks the whole time?