Luke Leaman's Background in Powerlifting

luke you're probably the most successful out of the three of you boys in what way getting putting the weight on not not in not in the list well let's speak that your let's let's let's do that let's go into like your history first as an athlete because i don't think many people would even know that you did powerlifting and you've been a big part of it was a while ago now and you've pivoted in many ways you're on Zach's wavelength down with the weightlifting. Weightlifting. Not only that, but then if you want to go into yourself as an educator as well and talk about your vast history there. Oh, man. Let's start with the athlete. Where do we start with that? Yeah, I mean, I really don't talk about it much that I powerlifted for a long time. I started when I was 14, and I powerlifted from the age of 14. We had a high school powerlifting team. I started then, and then I did that for four or five years. And then I got away from it for a few years and went into like bodybuilding shit because I wanted to be Arnold Schwarzenegger. Then I got tired of that. I never competed at that time. I went back in the powerlifting, but that was back when everybody was using all the supportive gears. So people would be wearing like triple denim custom suits, and I hated it. I could not stand it. I refused to lift. I was the dumbass that would buy a new shirt, and I'd put it on at the meet. I had no idea how to fucking wear it. so i never got anything out of it and i got even now people say equipped lifting is stupid i didn't say that well thomas thomas talks about it a little bit and how like if you're doing equipped stuff and he he is competing equipped it definitely puts up a huge barrier to entry for power which i mean one of the main benefits to power thing is it's low barrier entry as in grandma can come into a squad of the comp and this is a blue collar sport yeah you can get in at any level which is great but if you have to put on a squat suit in a bench suit and train in that and have a whole team supporting you and spotting you yeah it takes it levels up that barrier you know trying to stuff you into that suit like a fucking sausage yeah you know but yeah i never i i couldn't i couldn't do it man i couldn't do it i i at my last i did a last not meet but a bench press contest almost broke my elbows because we jacked the shirt too much and the bar wouldn't go all the way down so i lifted my head up and it dropped and the spotters didn't catch it so i got caught in this really fucking weird position. My elbow started and they got it off me and I went, nah, I'm done. Did a proper skull crusher. Proper jam pressed to my hip. How heavy was it? I can tell you in freedom units, it was 475 pounds I think is what it was Is that 200 That close to 200 212 213 No maybe 218 Somewhere around there I don know I don have a calculator I terrible at math I believe him I say 212 That's about right. 500 is 227. So I've got a video on YouTube. I've never shown anybody that where I did the 475, but before that I had dumped it in my lap and then redid it without jacking the shirt so much, but what a sport, but then that like now, like everybody does, most people do raw, you know, or at least just knee wraps. And that, that's what I, when I was 14, that's what we were doing. That was back in like, uh, 1992. And so we didn't like the shirts that you had, maybe you maybe get six or seven kilos out of a bent shirt. And we never wore squat suits. It was just to keep our shoulders from blowing out on a, on a pause. Um, and then when everybody got crazy with it, I was like, I'm done. I'm done. I was thinking I was like 27, 28. I was like, I'll just go back into bodybuilding. And I did that for a while.