LOL, maybe heed your own advise.perhaps less talk more chalk
Raw simply means you are not allowed to use any extra equipment other than what is deemed essential for safety. (belts excluded unfortunately)
A t shirt MUST be worn under your lifting singlet during bench and squat, not required on the deadlift.
Shoes MUST be worn during EVERY lift.
Knee high socks MUST be worn during deadlifts.
These arent debatable, you are disqualified if you dont conform.
BELTS on the other hand are allowed, but they are not part of the MINIMUM safety requirements, its personal choice.
NOBODY is allowed to lift without shoes, so how is it not raw? There is NO choice. There is with a belt.
Only someone that has never competed would ask such a question.
Some squatters prefer Chuck Taylors with no heel, very , very few squatters prefer an elevated heel. There is no "control" shoe. If you ban heels, you have to ban no heel, and release a "control" shoe. The sport of powerlifting is already borderline moronic, this would tip it over.
Here is an example. You are not allowed to bounce the bar off your chest, so you dont get an advantage, but you can wear a shirt that blasts the bar off your chest and gives you up to 150kg extra for some lifters. Moronic? no question.
Lets not complicate it further with a "control" shoe.
Probably, but really everyone should have to lift in the raw. Stark naked.I was thinking about it the other day, and in a RAW lifting comp, are you allowed to use lifting shoes?
You will hear a different opinion in your PT school, and from an osteopath. I don't recall his saying anything about shoes, but he was scornful of belts. And aerobics, and situps.Dancelot said:I know there are people here - great lifters and coach - who are against the use of a belt. However, I feel that the argument for the belt presented in that article - allowing your own ab muscles to work harder & lift more weights - is the same as the one for weightlifting shoes.
I have seen some people using high heeled shoes to deadlfit at my gym, dumb dumb dumb
Why is that no good?
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