JFL @ powercoping. This is what """elite""" powerlifters (aka professional gymcels) look like

[Deleted member 2047]

As I've said numerous times, powerlifting is what gymcels do after doing a real routine for a year or so, then realizing that aesthetics is all in the frame and genetic T levels. They lie to themselves that they lift for """strength""" when in reality they can't work up the courage to abandon gymcelling because theres still a small amount of cope left that one day they will look like they lift.

 

[mike mentzer]

"genetic T levels"

first of all, no one in these sports, no one, aside from the very stupid and naive, is natural. They all use steroids. So "natural T levels" is completely moot.

secondly, if you really believe THEIR bullshit about being genetically gifted, you're as naive as the ones who stay natty. Some of the biggest most jacked guys in the world right now had absolutely SHIT genetics for muscle building. Just take a look at the teenage pictures of instagram darlings like calum von moger, skinny twink with completely unremarkable structure as youth. Give that same kid 5 grams of testosterone a week, assorted other compounds, thousands of dollars worth of HGH and regular insulin abuse, and voila you have a "pro"

Powerlifters are just guys who started out wanting to be bodybuilders and then couldnt stop shoving shit in their mouths. All the guys in the image you just posted would look jacked if they actually committed to cutting for 3-6 months. They cant though, because powerlifter is a euphemism for addicted to food.

 

[Zenith]

They have a genetic predisposition to be shaped in such a way. On the other hand, someone like me will always look leaner regardless if I powerlift or bodybuild or whichever regimen I decide to do, or however I eat. Genetics. Phenotypes. When you are a skinny twink, then heavy compound lifts which powerlifters do are the absolute best (if the goal is to transform) since they put you under the largest possible load your body can experience.

 

[Henry de Montherlant]

All the guys powerlifting look like big bulls. I personnally prefer callisthenic and targetted exercises in order to work on aesthetic and develop strength that can be used for actual purposes in life.

I don't know what is so appealing in being able to lift cement bag perfectly if you're not even able to do perfect pull up series using body weight, or having an aesthetic V shape.

 

[mike mentzer]

HURR DURR "FrAmE"

 

[YungCell]

"genetic T levels"

first of all, no one in these sports, no one, aside from the very stupid and naive, is natural. They all use steroids. So "natural T levels" is completely moot.

secondly, if you really believe THEIR bullshit about being genetically gifted, you're as naive as the ones who stay natty. Some of the biggest most jacked guys in the world right now had absolutely SHIT genetics for muscle building. Just take a look at the teenage pictures of instagram darlings like calum von moger, skinny twink with completely unremarkable structure as youth. Give that same kid 5 grams of testosterone a week, assorted other compounds, thousands of dollars worth of HGH and regular insulin abuse, and voila you have a "pro"

Powerlifters are just guys who started out wanting to be bodybuilders and then couldnt stop shoving shit in their mouths. All the guys in the image you just posted would look jacked if they actually committed to cutting for 3-6 months. They cant though, because powerlifter is a euphemism for addicted to food.

Couldnt have said it better muself.

 

[Figthcel]

This is not exactly true.

Powerlifting, trying to lift as much as you can, can be enjoyed without the goal of becoming physically attractive.

It is a sport. Thats like saying runners want to look attractive. They dont. They want to be as fast as possible.

Being really good at something is a reward in itself. You dont need to look attractive.

Also bodybuilding can be much more boring, because ure not trying to beat any records or even your record. While deadlift and such is actually competitive.

Bodybuilding is for the looks. Powerlifting is strenght building.

 

[armis]

They have a genetic predisposition to be shaped in such a way.

"muh genes" "muh phenotypes" that's just excuses they use, I could starve any one of those fat fags and they would be ripped to shreds

 

[Figthcel]

All the guys powerlifting look like big bulls. I personnally prefer callisthenic and targetted exercises in order to work on aesthetic and develop strength that can be used for actual purposes in life.

I don't know what is so appealing in being able to lift cement bag perfectly if you're not even able to do perfect pull up series using body weight, or having an aesthetic V shape.

Yes exercise with body weight is the most functional. If youre to get anything from strength, it should be to have control over your body.

But sport doesnt have to be functional.

I laught at skying as well, its useless, but people still enjoy it.

Just let them do what they enjoy.

The most laughable is imho bodybuilding, as it is ONLY for the looks. You just seek validation. It is not manly nor functional.

 

[Deleted member 5861]

This site is so deluded sometimes. You can genuinely care about your strength and decide to focus near entirely on it jfl thinking otherwise is basically foid worship.

 

[Deleted member 250]

No gym for your face

 

[Deleted member 2047]

This site is so deluded sometimes. You can genuinely care about your strength and decide to focus near entirely on it jfl thinking otherwise is basically foid worship.

lmao nobody cares about strength not even those who train for strength its 2018 not 500 BC

 

[Fontaine]

"Lifting" usually results in a wrestler-type physique, often with a hunched hack and abnormally big thighs.

Given that few liftbros ever stretch their muscles, they often look like Quasimodo.

Cardio and light calisthenics are way enough to look fit.

 

[Damo the incel]

This site is so deluded sometimes. You can genuinely care about your strength and decide to focus near entirely on it jfl thinking otherwise is basically foid worship.

 

[GIGALUL]

Cardio and light calisthenics are way enough to look fit.

JFL if you think you're gonna put muscle on doing cardio and stretching. you don't have to do deadlifts and squats but if you aren't weightlifting you won't put muscle on. cardio plebs all look skinnyfat. if you define looking "fit" as looking skinnyfat then ok but it's the lifting that ascends you from skinnyfat to looking truly fit.

 

[Fontaine]

JFL if you think you're gonna put muscle on doing cardio and stretching. you don't have to do deadlifts and squats but if you aren't weightlifting you won't put muscle on. cardio plebs all look skinnyfat. if you define looking "fit" as looking skinnyfat then ok but it's the lifting that ascends you from skinnyfat to looking truly fit.

I've never seen a skinnyfat long-distance runner.

 

[Deleted member 2047]

I've never seen a skinnyfat long-distance runner.

In fact 99% of the guys at the gym I see squatting or deadlifting look like shit

 

[GIGALUL]

I've never seen a skinnyfat long-distance runner.

long distance no but normal amounts of cardio yes

 

[Barry]

fuck lifting for strength.

i don't give a fuck.

I got a personal trainer recently, told him I want lean mass.

just fucking lol - I literally said to him "I don't care if I'm tiny in real life, I want to be lean enough so my muscles are defined and when I make them bigger in photoshop, they'll look realistic enough."

he thought I was joking,

but I'm not

fuck that. I'll fraud everything and if I ascend, I'll just say "yeah bitch I'm leaning out at the moment which is why I'm smaller... I had high blood pressure."

ike anyone is going to fucking know the difference

 

[oldcel75]

I'm power-lifting from 14 yo, my cardio is boxing and even now at 42 I look like a bull. Why am I doing it? So nobody will fuck with me.

 

[Konon]

Powerlifting is a meme and pointless, cause even if you can bench 250lbs, there is a smaller and older foid somewhere that benches 300+. Not to mention all the 14 year olds that can lift a shit ton of weight, it literally loses all its purpose.

 

[Figthcel]

Well guys I am a decent runner and a crappy powerlifter buy I enjoy both.

I have friends who go to powerlifting and strongmen competitions and you know what? They enjoy it because they enjoy getting better! Stronger! Feeling good!

And you know what? They have girlfriends. And not shitty ones either.

They truly enjoy the competition - they write down how much they lifted every day, how many reps and so on.

Same as I keep records of my results from races.

Its the same as playing a videogame. You have a goal. You try to win, or win as much as possible.

The goal is not a girl in this case. It is a sport.

 

[Deleted member 2047]

The goal is not a girl in this case. It is a sport.

>lifting the bar 3 inches and using compromising positions to reduce that distance even further\
>""""""""""""""""sport"""""""""""""""""

face it, 100% of powerlifters started off as wannabee bodybuilders looking to get laid but couldn't cut it one way or another so they invented an entire cope sport. This includes me of course.

Nearly all top meets/records in powerlifting are determined by who cheats the most effectively. There is no objectivity whatsoever in judging because decisions are such arbitrary judgements of ROM that barely exist in the first place.

Take it from someone who has placed at national tournements: its not a sport. Its a cope.

 

[Cleftcel]

I've never understand how powerlifters don't get a good physique as an unintended benefit of spending loads of time at the gym??? good genetics for strength but not aesthetics

 

[Deleted member 60]

nothing wrong with improving strength

 

[Figthcel]

>lifting the bar 3 inches and using compromising positions to reduce that distance even further\
>""""""""""""""""sport"""""""""""""""""

face it, 100% of powerlifters started off as wannabee bodybuilders looking to get laid but couldn't cut it one way or another so they invented an entire cope sport. This includes me of course.

Nearly all top meets/records in powerlifting are determined by who cheats the most effectively. There is no objectivity whatsoever in judging because decisions are such arbitrary judgements of ROM that barely exist in the first place.

Take it from someone who has placed at national tournements: its not a sport. Its a cope.

Well even if they would start as bodybuilders trying to get laid and then got interested in powerlifting - it still doesnt mean it is not a sport.

You can start an activity trying to improve your SMV and then continue doing it or progress to another activity because you enjoy it.

Like women picking clothes. They want to be pretty, but they can also just enjoy shopping for clothes for fun even if they dont want to attract new men. They just want to see theirselves in the mirror looking pretty. They feel good improving their looks. Not necessarily to attract men.

Or someone making money. He can start with the goal of making money to attract women, but once he finds it being enjoyful, he can keep making more and more money to enjoy it himself.

Many human activities start out as a way to attract a potential mate, but then can become hobbies, just for the fun, without any further goal of attracting mate.

Otherwise almost everything would be a cope.

 

[Deleted member 1252]

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As I've said numerous times, powerlifting is what gymcels do after doing a real routine for a year or so, then realizing that aesthetics is all in the frame and genetic T levels. They lie to themselves that they lift for """strength""" when in reality they can't work up the courage to abandon gymcelling because theres still a small amount of cope left that one day they will look like they lift.

Man this is so fucking blackpilled and true. They realise they will never look like a fitness model because it’s all in the DNA and don’t want to admit they just fucking wasted a year of insane hard work and discipline.

 

[mike mentzer]

this is a powerlifter after cutting, i mean literally, this is a picture of a powerlifter who committed to cutting down:

I keep telling you guys that you're wrong about this nonsense about dna and shit, everyone in these sports has absolutely unremarkable genetics. the "genetics" is called the chronic gene expression from taking up to 10 grams of anabolics every week, tens of ius of GH and routine use of insulin. Actual genetic freaks are rare, and they are either involved in proper sports that have programs for the development of athletes from a very young age or in professional sports that have a SALARY instead of a paycheck for winning a poxy show/meet. You want to see real genetic freaks, go take a look at cuba's wrestling team, THOSE are genetics freaks. Not these instagram trenbolone babies.


everyone in any sort of sport related to weightlifting is a product of drugs + time. Everyone. Ill say what i said before again: powerlifters are just guys who started out wanting to be bbers but were addicted to eating so they ended up fat, and regardless of how much muscle mass you carry, it is always trivially easy for fat to obscure it. This is why even IFBB pros look like SHIT in the off-season. They just look like obese dudes, not bodybuilders.

 

[rabitter]

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As I've said numerous times, powerlifting is what gymcels do after doing a real routine for a year or so, then realizing that aesthetics is all in the frame and genetic T levels. They lie to themselves that they lift for """strength""" when in reality they can't work up the courage to abandon gymcelling because theres still a small amount of cope left that one day they will look like they lift.

All of them can run JBW game easily.

 

[Jockcel]

Only retards transition to powerlifting.

 

[Not_Important]

JFL @ not MMAmaxxing
Even as a skinnycel I could unironically beat the shit out of pretty much any powercoper in my gym.
Muscles are useless when you don't know how to fight and gas out in 15 seconds.

 

[mike mentzer]

Only retards transition to powerlifting.

they dont have a choice

they're literally addicted to eating. Theres nothing about being fat that is advantageous to powerlifting (fat adds tissue that performs ZERO work and simply adds resistance. The old term "muscle bound" was actually referring to strongmen of the 1800s and early 1900s that were very fat and didnt display much mobility, the proper term wouldve been "fat bound" because fat literally restricts - or constricts if you prefer - movement. movement is ONLY achieved via muscular contraction ergo fat restricts muscles from performing at their best) but they convince people of the necessity of this to hide the fact they cant stop eating. Their food bills almost match their drug bills, which is ridiculous to say out loud but absolutely true.

and if you cant as a matter of course, stop eating, then you cant very well get down to the low levels of bodyfat necessary to place in a bodybuilding competition, and thus, be a bodybuilder in actuality.

I do not think it is an exaggeration to state that the only difference between powerlifters and regular obese people is powerlifters engage in resistance training and drug use on a regular basis. Otherwise the behaviors and personality traits are exactly the same. They even have similar metabolic profiles (pre-diabetes/insulin resistance usually, high blood pressure, low SHBG, etc)

 

[Jockcel]

they dont have a choice

they're literally addicted to eating. Theres nothing about being fat that is advantageous to powerlifting (fat adds tissue that performs ZERO work and simply adds resistance. The old term "muscle bound" was actually referring to strongmen of the 1800s and early 1900s that were very fat and didnt display much mobility, the proper term wouldve been "fat bound" because fat literally restricts - or constricts if you prefer - movement. movement is ONLY achieved via muscular contraction ergo fat restricts muscles from performing at their best) but they convince people of the necessity of this to hide the fact they cant stop eating. Their food bills almost match their drug bills, which is ridiculous to say out loud but absolutely true.

and if you cant as a matter of course, stop eating, then you cant very well get down to the low levels of bodyfat necessary to place in a bodybuilding competition, and thus, be a bodybuilder in actuality.

I do not think it is an exaggeration to state that the only difference between powerlifters and regular obese people is powerlifters engage in resistance training and drug use on a regular basis. Otherwise the behaviors and personality traits are exactly the same. They even have similar metabolic profiles (pre-diabetes/insulin resistance usually, high blood pressure, low SHBG, etc)

Well said.

 

[Hunter]

they have high body fat % though. they are doing it wrong.