The contemporary society totally disrespects power lifting and power lifters.
The trend has been born of a long lived ignorance accorded the endeavor.
If you read many messages pasted on gym boards or even hear a conversation between body builders, myths about power lifting are usually preached as the gospel truth.
Gyms and power lifting clubs and or organizations all over the world have inculcated an ignorant perspective on body building.
You might be suffering the same bias or are a victim of such misinformation.
You might for example believe that power lifers usually don't gain as much muscle mass as do body builders.
You might be of the view that power lifting training can never help an individual achieve awesome muscle gains in mass.
If so, then know that this is another one of the stereotypes, ridiculous to say the least, held against power lifting.
Just ask yourself, how can anybody who is slinging heavy weights day in day out have any body less than well defined.
Power lifters usually adopt high rep ranges during their exercises that help stimulate maximal muscle growth more effectively than some professional body builders.
Training for maximal strength output as needed by power lifters leads to muscle mass gains and strength.
Then you might be among those innocent individuals who ardently believe that power lifting programs never allow individuals to achieve enough volume for hypertrophy.
Indeed, many a physiology experts published left and right online or offline, purport the very same thing.
How wrong? High-volume body building trainees can never stimulate their muscles more than do power lifting trainees.
It is hypertrophy processes that help power lifters grow into the weights stage after stage until they are champion lifters.
Have you met the metal-militia power trainees whose workout schedules incorporate 10 back to back sets of up to 45 or even 50 shrugs? How can this be lesser volume than a body builder's 45 minutes of triceps curls? The truth is, high volume is achieved in power training than anywhere else.
It is surprising why people thing that power lifters usually have small arms.
Perhaps you are one of these people? Of course that is not true.
It's another of the stereotypical comments body builders use to feel superior to power lifters.
In fact, it's one of the believes that continue to perpetuate the body builders vs.
power lifters opposition.
Modern power lifting programs incorporate loads upon loads of triceps exercises, a lot of rows, a lot of pull-downs and or pull-ups.
Power lifters are now very good in the straight bar curls.
As such, the power lifters have mastered such exercises as can assist achieve maximal growth in their hands just as any body builder can.
Being short or small handed is not a feature engrained in power lifting but can be an individual's genetic predisposition, body builder or power lifter alike.
These among many other misinformation's should show you how much ignorance people treat power lifting with.
With adequate information, you too would learn some key truths that elaborate the true essence of power lifting.