Power lifting is just bs. Want to show you're powerful, strong, fast and strong? Lift the bar off the floor over head. All of the Olympia contestants couldn't lift 315lbs over their head from the floor. Bet almost all of the National power lift champions couldn't do it either.
I think the old AAU contests had it right. You had to get athletic points by Olympic lifting the day of the contest. You couldn't show up depleted and weak. They didn't have massive totals because they are bodybuilders not specializing in the lifts but they showed they were athletes.
The picture below is what bodybuilding should be in my opinion. 1957 Mr. America AAU.
If the "old days" were so good- why'd they change? And why aren't they changing back?
