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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

1152: Why You Should Powerlift

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge

Exercise, Health & Fitness, Health, Fitness

4.811.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Sal, Adam and Justin discuss the benefits of adding powerlifting training to improve strength, muscle gain and fat loss.

  • The importance of focusing on strength and performance vs being body image-centric. (2:32)
  • What is competitive powerlifting? (8:36)
  • The carry over the 3 Big Lifts have on your routine, body & MORE. (12:06)
  • The concept of maximal strength explained. (16:06)
  • The differences between powerlifting style training vs standard resistance training. (17:50)
  • The speaker/amplifier analogy with powerlifting principles. (20:55)
  • When you train like a powerlifter you feel HARD. (25:27)
  • How strength motivators are more relevant than the scale. (28:49)
  • Powerlifting principles are based on objective results. (30:01)
  • The metabolism-boosting/fat loss benefits of getting stronger. (31:27)
  • How we can ALL benefit from focusing on a powerlifting style of training. (33:12)
  • YOU vs the iron and getting away from being body obsessed. (39:02)
  • The new MAPS Powerlift program broken down. (43:00)

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0:00.0

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go.

0:06.0

MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts.

0:09.0

Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

0:13.0

Alright, in this episode of Mind Pump, we talk about the principles and concepts around powerlifting,

0:22.0

competitive powerlifting, but also just for people who might not want to compete,

0:26.0

but utilize the principles and concepts of powerlifting to benefit their physiques,

0:31.0

to burn more body fat, build more muscle, speed up their metabolism.

0:35.0

So we talk about powerlifting itself.

0:37.0

We talk about the muscles that are involved with the three main lifts.

0:41.0

We talk about maximal strength.

0:43.0

Like what are the differences between powerlifting style or types of training versus bodybuilding,

0:48.0

or other forms of resistance training, movement versus feel.

0:53.0

We talk about the aesthetic effects.

0:55.0

Like if you train with a cycle of powerlifting, how is it going to change how your body looks?

1:00.0

We also talk about the value of moving yourself from being body image centric to performance centric,

1:08.0

and why this may be of benefit to a lot of people.

1:12.0

Also, we have just released our newest maps program.

1:17.0

It's Maps Powerlift, so it's perfect for this episode.

1:20.0

It is the first maps program that is based on powerlifting.

1:24.0

So if you're an experienced lifter, but you've never done powerlifting before,

1:27.0

you can enroll in this program, follow it from beginning to end and be ready for your first competition.

1:32.0

Or if you're somebody that wants to just benefit from the concepts of powerlifting,

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