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Old 09-21-2008, 09:19 AM
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How you do in a meet will be based on a ton of factors beyond your control. Nothing like training very hard for a small local meet and having a world champion show up to test his progress in your weight class. Do not take it badly in this case, because if you are a world champion, you are probably not wasting time reading this. If you become one someday, by the way, remember me in your will. Whatever place you get, it is better than you would have done if you did not compete at all. As Musashi once said “Today is victory over yourself of yesterday, tomorrow is victory over lesser men.” Accept your place with courtesy and grace, this is the true mark of a champion.

Why compete? This is the most common question we get, or at least ‘Are my numbers good enough to compete?’
- Yes they are.
By simply stepping up on the platform you are doing something that more than 99% of the population ever will, what does that tell you? Remember earlier about the first meet being your greatest learning experience? If you do not try, you will never learn, why cheat yourself of this experience? You will not only learn what it is like to go to a meet, and here you will learn things you never will in the gym. You will also meet some of the few people who share a common interest with you, and if you are looking for advice here, odds are you do not know too many of them in the real world. This is a great way to change this. And if you wind up competing in the same area for years on end, local meets often wind up being something like family reunions, but everyone actually has a common interest. From your bothers and sisters in iron, you will be able to learn from them (both from their successes as well as their failures) including numerous little ‘tricks of the trade’ that are easy to overlook.

The heart of powerlifting is the platform, and the only way to truly know what it is like is to step up onto it. You have little to lose, and very much to gain.
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