A monster lift from a monster of a man.
Bodybuilders and weightlifters perform the same lifts in the gym, albeit with different goals and vastly different results. Where a bodybuilder focuses on sculpting an unreal physical frame. A weightlifter, such as a powerlifter or Olympic lifter, are focused entirely on different goals. Building strength is the name of the game for a weightlifter and that could result in them building a quality physique. But at the end of the day it’s all about the numbers that are being put up and weightlifters are constantly on the hunt to raise the amount of weight they can lift.
When it comes to resistance training there are few athletes that can lift the whopping numbers that professional powerlifters can. That’s the whole point of the sport after all, yet it still amazes that there are humans capable of such feats of strength walking among us. They may not look superhuman like a bodybuilder, but they do have a tremendous amount of functional strength which serves a different purpose altogether.
Of all the lifts a strength athlete performs, there’s no doubt that the most important lifts to master are both the squat and the deadlift. There are a ton of obvious reasons for mastering the squat and the deadlift as both can help to translate over to other lifts. But even in terms of intensity, there’s nothing quite like a deadlift to test your grit. The amount of drive, determination and focus a deadlift requires can make for some truly intense training.
If you think prepping for a deadlift isn’t intense then you obviously haven’t seen powerlifter Pete Rubish pushing himself to the mental and physical limit to perform an astonishing 900 lbs deadlift.
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