Powerlifting Culture vs. Bodybuilding

i sometimes feel like that when people complain and i i personally think powerlifting peaks like i don't think they're that that tough at all but people will like literally complain about them like they're the worst thing ever and i don't know yeah i just i don't feel like they're that tough like you just lift and wait first thing it's your choice well that's i i always double down on that it's my choice i'm Lifting weights. So you're saying they say the powerlifting is down. Yeah, I don't know. Some people think the powerlifting. Oh, my central nervous system. They're like, oh, the peaking's too hard. I don't want to compete because the peak's too hard. And I'm like, it's not that hard. It's nice. You're doing less training. You're doing less training. We're doing some singles and shit. That's it. Out of every sport I've ever done, powerlifting was the easiest. Yeah. That's what I think. I can still eat ding-dongs and ho-hos and corn dogs. When I finish a deadlift session, I go and get a pizza. It's like, man. you know what I'm talking about a lot of people say it I think it like you talk about the biopsychosocial model but I think there's just like this cultural this cultural sort of expectation that training gets harder in powerlifting which it definitely does like as you get stronger and you can tolerate more volume and you require more volume for stimulus and all that sort of stuff but I think somehow that's latched on to a peak and then everyone thinks that because we're getting closer and closer it should be getting harder but in reality it's really not you're doing less training I think there's an element of it too that I've noticed the culture in power is that they actually a lot of people take the piss like when they're three or four blocks out from comp they take the piss a lot they don't fucking train hard they skip and we spoke about this with John Trains like people just doing their accessories like whatever like curls and just yeah done and then they actually get to a peaking block and they go I've got to put some work in and try and train hard because I want to get the numbers I want and they realise what hard training actually should feel like and there's a bit more fatigue build up and all that. So I reckon there's an element of that too. And as well, it's probably all of it. Psychological. It's a cultural thing too. But yeah, deadlifts and then pizza. It's mad. But I'm a piece of shit when I cut, is what I wanted to say. We did an eight-week cut. And the last two weeks, from week six to eight, all I could talk about was food. I was in there training two hours and just all I could talk about was food. How much weight did you lose? I got lean. Oh, not lean. I got lean for me. Six kilos? Yeah. You walk into the bathroom He's got a recipe book He's like Cake yeah Yeah that's literally What I was like Steak I honestly think Next time for you If we go longer than Four weeks Like if it's six week plus We'll diet break Every four weeks No I reckon that's The strategy Four weeks Diet break Four weeks diet break Like especially If you're going to do An extended one Like fill out 110 So we're going to Diet break like fucking Because if I have to hear You talk about food Fucking four weeks Well mate I was just going to Say this earlier He's just bought Obviously Texan What was the Tejas No what was the Town call again Mejia Mejia Mejia He just bought a smoker No I didn't buy a smoker I bought a Weber kettle It's a Jamba kettle But it's a kettle Kettle barbecue But he's full blown Smoking meat I'm going to buy a smoker Yeah It's a good hobby Next time we're in Melbourne He'll cook you up one Man Fucking ace We'll do it It's something about I think it's also the Greek roots We like charcoal It's definitely You know what I mean Yeah It's a very Greek thing It is. Light up charcoals. But you've got to set it up in the front yard. Yeah. You can't be out in the back. We do it in the driveway. It's got to be in the front yard. You've got to have tracks planned. They've got to see. They've got to see us. In the driveway. Yeah.