Top 5 Pros And Cons Of Powerlifting

Fortified Iron admin Kyle asks for everyone's top 5 pros and cons of powerlifting. Pros:

• Being bald and tattooed and looking normal to your peers.
• if it was not for the gym I most likely would have gone insane by now
• Getting a PR is the greatest feeling outside of sex.
• The cool ass people i have met in this sport
• Being able to push myself harder
• lifting heavy stuff is fun
• The feeling of a huge PR
• fellow PLers consider me a middleweight.... at 265.
• It keeps me from killing homeless people with a hammer.

Cons:

• I'm a fat fuck
• Callouses
• Unwanted advice from people who have never actually trained but know everything about how I should train
• Everyone wants to see biceps or abs, but really developed glutes are hard to show off without looking gay.
• Injuries
• Terrible judging that allows people to question a lift.
• Fed and lifter bashing
• way too many feds
• the diet, because someimes I just do not want to eat
• not fitting in plane seats properly, maybe even getting the extention so u can buckle(all u big guys know)
• There are no groupies.
• It's not an olympic sport yet
• Equipment is expensive