You might be a body builder yes, a successful body builder, but you might also be among those body builders who look down on power lifters as the lesser of weight trainers. You might be a power lifter and you are simply sick of the disrespect, the myths and the untruths heaped up on the game you love. Well, this article is to clear the air about power lifters, getting the truth behind the popular demeaning myths against power lifting. Specifically, let us base our consideration of the supposition that power lifters are fat.

It is a myth that power lifters are very fat. There is a fear that engulfs most would be power lifters that if they take up power lifting, they would get fat, which to them is not something that is good. The myth is simply ridiculous, to say the least. But where did this myth originate from? In the 1980’s perhaps. It was in the 80’s that champion power lifters had to be inhumanly big. Most were actually famous for being big and heavy than for lifting. That is no longer the case in modern day power lifting. If you have seen any of the recent power lifting champions, then you know that lifting heavy does not necessarily need a huge fat body, but a strong one.

Ryan Kennelly for instance or Scot Mendelson are power-lifting legends today and yet they would pass for any body builder who has seen success and tasted the glory. They are muscles not fat. Sebastian Burns is another muscled power lifter whose lifting prowess is a world record yet he is even slimmer than most bodybuilding champions are. There are upcoming power lifters, some who are lifting amazing weights like you would lift a book and yet they are lean but muscled. And by all means, why should power lifters be fat?

These are guys who hit the gym daily. They lift and lift heavy throughout the session. These guys actually use variations of the most intense bodybuilding workout exercises. Power lifters are no slobs, no, they are not lazy. The truth is, these guys are in supreme diets, they workout hard and long, they give their utmost before they can approximate world-class power lifting fame. There is no way they can get there if they are fats slobs. Fat deposits have no chance in their bodies, the metabolism rate is high, the efficiency of their fat break down is perfect, their nutritional sense is as good as any. While fat may accumulate to a person who is not active, and whose energy needs are far below the fat ingested through the diet, there is no way that power lifting, intense as it is, can allow any fat to accumulate in the body. Not unless the power lifters are eating a diet of 100% pure fats, which is impossible.

If at all some power lifters are fat, which is possible and expected, just like their predecessors in the 80’s, the blame lies not in power lifting itself, but in the individuals. The biased conception of power lifting as a fat injecting or rearing sport is misconstrued.

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