Yeah. I'm supposed to be writing up an explanation on all that and you just reminded me of how lazy I am being (not...Joe helps me with the math).
I think everyone in this thread was using power in the popular sense as in "powerful, robust, forceful" or just strong. Which is completely incorrect from a physics or biomechanics standpoint, I realize.
Not many seem to understand just how much of a misnomer "powerlifting" is. It's funny that there is a feud between many powerlifters and Olympic lifters seeing that Olympic lifting could more correctly be called powerlifting.
But this made me think of the history of Olympic lifting and powerlifting and I kinda think that the name Powerlifting was used quite purposely since the "slow" lifts were treated like the hillbilly cousins of the high brow and technical fast lifts. I can see the attraction of appropriating the term power even if they were aware of it's technical incorrectness. But probably they just mean "strong".
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