August 27, 2011

Here is the link to the BenchPress Nationals next Saturday. I lift around 2:00



I normally do not get to post on the weekend but I found the website Powerlifting Academy and thought this was really funny.
 

You might be a powerlifter if…

• The doctor tells you that you need more iron in your diet so you throw in an extra set of lock-outs!
• You check squat depth when using the john.
• When you work a desk during the day and you still have 1/2 inch thick calluses on your hands.
• You think baby powder on your thighs and chalk on your hands looks cool.
• Whenever a non-PL friend of yours moves house, or needs to move heavy things around the place, you are the FIRST person they call for help!
• You psych up before lifting your laundry basket off the floor.
• Most people in the gym don’t like you.
• You are NOT at a powerlifting gym when during your leg routine, you have all the 45’s in the gym on your own bar and a bunch of guys are watching you waiting for you to share.
• You dismount the toilet like doing box squats (to perfect that explosive power).
• You think torn track pants, an old, sweaty, filthy t-shirt advertising a garbage company, and SLIPPERS, are perfectly suitable gym attire.
• You can’t count above 5 but can multiply by 45 in your head.
• People at gym tell you someone is looking very “cut” and you think they had a terrible accident in the kitchen.
• When the word “gear” refers to squat suits, bench shirts, wraps, belts, suit slippers, salts and chalk, not STEROIDS.
• When you inhale ammonia instead of using it for cleaning.
• When the amount of weight you lift is more important than how cleanly shaven your legs are or how dark your tan is.
• When the gym owner kicks you out for bending yet another bar while squatting.
• You think a 16 oz. steak is a snack to have between meals.
• It takes 5 seconds for your spirit to re-enter your body after deadlifting.
• You think that creatine is a food group.
• You use a 1 kg plate as a paper-weight on your desk at work.
• You have baby powder in your gym bag.
• You take your weight belt off in between sets or while going to the water fountain or restroom.
• You develop “white lung” from the chalk and baby powder.
• You use the handicap stall at a public restroom for the use of the handrails on leg day.
• You are annoyed by someone using the power rack for curls, even when the gym is empty.
• You can’t understand why college wrestlers wear powerlifting uniforms.
• You have more garments in your gym bag made of polyester than is worn by the whole crew at McDonald’s.
• You think it is cool the Japanese named a national sport after your deadlifting style.
• The greeting “Good Morning” makes your hamstrings and lower back ache.
• You think of helping your neighbors move their piano as “a set”.
• You drop something, and go into a sumo stance to pick it up. ( I do this)
• You might be a powerlifting female if all heads turn when you squat.
• You might be a powerlifting female if you get more excited over squat shoes and new belt than you do over jewelry.
• You get accused by bodybuilders of taking steroids because you’re stronger than they are.
• You daydream of pushpressing aerobic instructors to see how high they will fly.
• You have ever used a Home Depot card to purchase “training equipment”.