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What is the difference between main Weight lifting and power lifting?

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tomwalker

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Both the terms are most often used just wanna know the exact difference any one knows here?
 
tomwalker said:
What is the difference between main Weight lifting and power lifting? Both the terms are most often used just wanna know the exact difference any one knows here?
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Well weightlifting is really powerlifting, and powerlifting is brute strength lifting.
 
Weightlifting = Olympic lifts
power lifting = max dead bench squat
Bodybuilding = bodybuilding
 
I mean this in a non disrespectful way, but powerlifting is just a bastardised version of olympic lifting. You're never going to see powerlifting in the olympics because the real weight lifters would cream them.
 
steveP said:
I mean this in a non disrespectful way, but powerlifting is just a bastardised version of olympic lifting. You're never going to see powerlifting in the olympics because the real weight lifters would cream them.
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It's in the paraolympics as bench only. And those guys destroy everyone actually. Literally. Benching 4x bodyweight RAW with no legs haha.

But you're right in the sense of a 3 lift comp in general. I beleive the IPF have just submitted more forms again for Olympic inclusion. IMO if it made it it might possibly be only two lifts. Bench and deadlift.

Not all oly lifters have that brute strength like you're thinking though, ala Illyan, Xiangou (spel?), and company.
Some elite level guys can only just barely (and this is quite incredible really) squat more than they can clean & jerk.

PL came from weightlifting. Or rather they both came from eachother. Wish they still ran the oddlifts comps haha.
 
Timeah said:
It's in the paraolympics as bench only. And those guys destroy everyone actually. Literally. Benching 4x bodyweight RAW with no legs haha.
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But if you cut your legs off that halves your bodyweight, then they get strapped to the bench. It's basically doping.







jkjk
 
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