Ya, I hear you.
Wow...I never new you were into powerlifting. My one annoyance are bbdr's in general with no strength. Guys that are 250lbs and can't even do a set of flat dumbbells with 120's. I always said that its great to look good but to have the motor to back up that good looking package.
I'm a lifter, not a bodybuilder.
There are many guys who are larger than me who can't pull compound lifts that are close to mine with form.
That is where the similarities end.
Form and strength..........vs. the look of strength without the functionality.
Not really. I don't view it as cheating, and I don't think it's really the same as injecting muscles with synthol in BB.
Bench pressing with a shirt is a certain "kind" or "form" of bench pressing. It's different than raw bench pressing, but it's not cheating or trying to beat the system or anything like that IMO. It takes strength, technique, and skill to use a shirt properly, and wraps only help to prevent injury.
I have always bench pressed raw (no shirt). In February of this year, I competed in a meet where I was THE ONLY person who did not wear a shirt, btw the guys and the girls. The ONLY one. It's kind of cool to bench raw and everything, but when it comes down to that kind of a situation, I found myself at a complete disadvantage.
This year, I am training and competing with a shirt...I just ordered my shirt today. The training is just as intense and hard as it would have been without a shirt, perhaps more so, because now I have to learn how to use the shirt.
Opinions vary.
I don't believe in shirts or wraps......
If you can't lift it naturally, without some type of artificial aid being attached to you, you aren't truly lifting it.
The muscles, tendons, ligaments are there to do the work.......and that's how it should be.
If you need aids, you just aren't strong enough to move up in weight and that is exactly how I see it.
A cheat is a cheat.
I luv ya DIV, ya know I do. We go way back (well back to when I first came on the boards, lol). But if you're not "into" bodybuilding...why are you on a bodybuilding site. I mean most who are on here either are bodybuilders, or love bodybuilders, or at the very least are fans of bodybuilding. This is getbig.com, not powerlift.com or strength.com.
Laura, with all due respect, I moderate the Steroid Forum as that is my main interest here.
That is my main connection to GetBig.com
I am not a fan of bodybuilding in general.
Ron wouldn't have it any other way........
DIV
