You know, today's the day
that makes you want to start
powerlifting but there's this
question in the back of your
mind, how will powerlifting
affect my body.
If only there was a video that
played out the sport specific
abilities that powerlifting
will do to impact your body.
And today that video is for
you.
Today I'm going to go over the
science of how the sport of
powerlifting impacts your
body by three different way
category you can see the three
natural somewhat peak athletic
bodies that come out of doing
powerlift Remember to always
break your fitness limits and
join me Awakendgainz to begin
with and the whole endo ecto
and mesomorph classifications
are often use people to
say your certain body type.
Well, I'm not the biggest
fan of the types of body
classifications.
It's used in the research
paper I'm going to reference
today.
So it's going to be useful but
I don't particularly like it
that much.
Another thing that I want to
make very clear is that your
body will only still grow
within its genetic structions
even if you do and have a
special training, so take the
body measurements here with a
grain of salt, say for chest
development or bone growth in
the hip region, some people
will naturally tailor toward
a certain body type with their
training, but others will
stick to their frame, you
know, unless you want to do
like, you know, bone length
meant surgery, it's probably
not going to happen a lot of
people but you're going
to fall into your natural
genetics.
The last point I want to go
over is to go over that is
there is no perfect body type
or perfect ideal body for
powerlifting.
Everyone is unique and the
sport plays on your specific
biomechanics.
The pursuit of powerlifting
shouldn't come from a negative
body perspective.
And because that impacts
your motivation, and your
motivation is what's going to
give you the ability to not
fault or easily fail when
going through enough training.
And it'll be more intrinsic
you'll be able to work out
longer and motive let's get
into how powerlifting affects
your body by going over three
different body types that
develop a certain way
towards a peak athletic body.
Here is the science
behind a powerful Lifting
transformation.
In a study titled
anthropometric dimensions of
male power lifting of varying
body masses, three groups were
selected to perform this power
lifting study from piloting
competitions for analysis.
The lightweight power lifter
is generally around the 68.9
kg plus or minus seven point
kg or 150 to 270 pounds, the
middleweight power lifter is
usually around the 87.7 kg
range plus or minus 6.9 kg or
193 pounds to 210 pounds lb.
Lastly, the heavyweight power
lifter is generally around 120
1.9 kg and fluctuates much
higher because of the plus
added to it to the
heavyweight category.
You can go up infinitely even
though there's diminishing
returns in your
sports ability.
Each weight group represents
ideal anthropometric you know
distributions of muscle
mass, fat and bone based on
different builds for those
heights and weights of those
people.
Guy starting out at a
height of 160 centimeters.
Near say five foot three
will probably lean towards a
lightweight body dimension
more athletically than a
heavyweight one because of
height, bone, and muscle mass
restrictions how lifting the
goal is to produce as much
power within your given
biomechanics as possible.
One of the critical factors
that not a lot of people look
at when examining a lifter is
their bone mass in relation to
the rest of their body.
bone mass is a crucial element
to allow more room for muscle
to grow.
And it's actually bone mass
allows you to customize
yourself to the sheer
force of working out.
Shear force is the compression
of weight on your body,
usually calling small micro
tears and smile micro cracks
and your bone and it's
generally the compression like
when you're
squatting 500 pounds.
It's the concrete compression
on your body at your bones had
to fight up against and your
muscles move your bones to
actually move in doing so your
bones get wider and denser to
fight back against the shear
force and pose I working out
for me personally, I saw the
most significant increase in
bone mass where I started
squatting perfect probably
caused by being able to lift
heavier in a squat earlier on
than the deadlift
because of grip strength.
The next thing to change when
young power lifters start is
their overall body girth.
This comes into play for
individual muscles like the
quads, the triceps, and but
also the hips especially, and
has muscle lays on top of bone
girth as they develop, and
then fat lays on top of that,
so you're always going to be
kind of expanding, even though
you're working out to build
more muscle and get leaner.
But this also allows power
lifters to Get Swole just like
any other group,
so don't worry.
The next area to change
slightly is the bone bread.
I believe that's how it's
pronounced but brown bread,
which is the V waistline waist
chip from your shoulders to
your waist as you expand and
build your body lightweight
and generally has a neck
thickness of 37 centimeters
and a flexed upper arm of
37 centimeters and a forum
thickness of 29 centimeters,
a chest thickness of 101
centimeters a waist thickness
of 79 centimeters, the
lightweight lifters usually
have the tightest waist of all
because of the height factor
and weight, hip thickness of
92 centimeters is very
common calf thickness of 36
centimeters is also common.
calves usually don't really
grow that much, but because of
squatting, developing, they
do go to certain stand.
So these measurements are more
say that this is the average
build of these elite power
lifters that were tested in
this study.
Now, time for the middleweight
they tend to grow a neck
thickness of 41 centimeters
and upper arm flex of 40
centimeters.
So right off the bat you can
see a substantial difference
between the middleweight and
the heavyweight between the
lightweight in the
middleweight and from that
additional 20 or so pounds in
the neck, the upper arm and
the hip region their forearms
are generally not as much more
significant at 31 centimeters
because it's hard to add mass
to forearms when your body
only goes up 20 pounds while
the chest is more massive
at 109.7 centimeters and the
waist or substantially Up to
90 centimeters and the hips at
one to one and a thigh
and calf of 61 and 38
respectively.
The big difference for the
middleweight weightlifters is
that their neck, upper arms,
chest and waist hips such
thigh up to gain more size in
general by substantial amount,
usually one to five more
centimeters, especially the
neck you can see that between
someone who adds x 20 pounds
of more muscle and fat their
next year to develop outwards
and their traps build.
Now on to the
heavyweight lifter.
The heavyweight power lifter
has a neck thickness of 47
centimeters and upper arm
thickness of 46.7 a forum of
35 already good jump there, a
chest thickness of 126 a waist
thickness of 109 a hip
thickness of 117 a thigh
thickness of
73 and a calf thickness of 45.
The big growth for the
heavyweight lifters are the
increase in neck thickness,
upper arm flexors and forearm
thickness even The calves were
able to grow even though the
only increased another 20
pounds chest girth, obviously
and the waistline increase,
especially with the thigh
reason main reason for these
differences isn't always raw
muscle mass.
But generally as people go up
in weight and height, so does
their fat mass and bone mass
to compensate for all the
sheer force.
So there's not always a one
to one relationship between
muscle growth or muscle
centimeter size and just
actual raw muscle
in these groups.
Things like fat and
bone get in the way.
However, as you up in weight
and as you build an athletic
body, there is a steady
development and significant
indicators of bone growth
density in each weight class
without the jump from
lightweight to middleweight.
Without the increase in bone
you cannot develop and so make
sure you get enough calcium
and make sure your bone
development is optimal.
To summarize, the areas that
grow the most from training as
a power lifter are the neck,
forearms, arms, chest, core,
glutes, thighs and
the calf muscles.
some degree.
Now I understand a lot of
people are not under these
three categories of
heavyweight lifters.
But that's all cool man.
You know, not everyone falls
under these unique body types,
I'm to 220 lb and I'm six foot
or 511 I don't fall into the
heavyweight category at all.
I don't even have like the
forearm thickness to really
measure up to these guys.
So these are more peak bodies
or peak trained bodies for a
specifc sport.
The takeaway message of
this video is a visual
demonstration of the
science behind power lifting
transformations that you
might see on YouTube.
And I hope it helps you
break your fitness limits.
So join me now and
say Awakendgainz.
