You Know You're a Powerlifter When...

…You ask someone else to tie your shoes on squat/deadlift day.

…You drink beer instead of water for the extra calories.

…Your squat is bigger than your paycheck, and you’re proud of it.

…You framed your first ripped underwear and stained t-shirt.

I loved the ballet slippers one Hanley!

You’ve squatted so hard the day before that it takes a GPS system to drop a load because you can’t get to the seat.

You get jealous of the orangutan’s at the zoo because you know they could easy double your PR with those lanky arms.

[quote]threewhitelights wrote:

You have the biggest quads in your gym… and the smallest calves.

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I love this one. Sorta like…

…you’ve the biggest arms in your gym… but the smallest biceps.

You need to go up a size or two
just to fit your neck/traps through a t-shirt.

You use two “collar/tie” extenders to button the top button of a dress shirt.

You look like you have a 100 pound tumor on your back.

You get winded on the walk to the buffet line.

[quote]conorh wrote:
I have been known to eat a Little Debby in the middle of a deadlift workout. [/quote]

Now I feel a little bit better about having done ab work with a mouth full of Mike & Ikes yesterday.

And…If you want to get yoked, you have to eat Hostess snacks. :slight_smile:
http://www.elitefts.com/documents/getting_yoked.htm

you walk around and the only thing that goes through your mind is "I bet I could pick up 3 of those, or I could definitely flip that car over…

you feel like your session was wasted if you didnt almost pass out or vomit

When wasting chalk is a sin, and when icy hot and sweat smell sweet.

[quote]Hanley wrote:
…you own ballet slippers and aren’t accused of being gay[/quote]
This one really made me smile; it reminded me of a tale told by one of our lifters:
Gaz F. 75kg 5ft 6in no excess fat (not all PLs are fat) went into the sports shop to buy a pair of ballet shoes and when the shop assistant looked kind of funny at him he said “I like to do a bit of ballet, every now and then, helps keep me in shape you know.” AND SHE BELIEVED HIM!

…you consider sex as GPP.

…everything except singles are high reps.

…you barely break parallel (give yourself two whites) when sitting down on the toilet seat.

You drop some loose change and:
1, Leave it, you know to save energy. Or
2, Pick it up, it counts as GPP right? Or
3, Pick it up, but make funny noises while you bend over.

…when you huff off a small bottle of ammonia in the console of your car for a little “pick me up” before attacking morning rush hour.

you see someone quarter “squat” with a belt, kneewraps and a “man-pon” on the bar, and feel your stomach turn

You resemble the missing link in Darwin’s evolutionary chart, with the body hair, big traps, and hunch from your lower back cramping up.

This made my day, I never realized how much of this I actually did do.

…when you show off by multplying and dividing every number in your head by 2.2

your total keeps going up in your head before a meet.

2.25

[quote]big balls wrote:
2.25[/quote]

2.205…newbs.

When girl on top becomes a necessity. If the back pump doesn’t get you, your triceps will surely give out from the board work earlier.

[quote]Donut62 wrote:
big balls wrote:
2.25

2.205…newbs.

When girl on top becomes a necessity. If the back pump doesn’t get you, your triceps will surely give out from the board work earlier.[/quote]

Right in so many ways.