smash_logs | Max's Powerlifting Competition: It's Happening. It's Already Here.

Who: Max, Powerlifters, Spectators
What: A Powerlifting Competition
Where: The Weight Room
When: Saturday, Feb. 7th
Warnings: I make no promises about anything that transpires.

The Saturday of the Powerlifting competition was finally here. Max had prepared for it with his utmost. There was a station where competitors would sign in, a station for competitors to sign in, a station for competitors to get their free t-shirt, a station for competitors to get protein bars and electrolyte beverages, three squat racks set up for use, three deadlifting platforms, and three bench press stations, all waiting to be used.

It was beautiful. Life was beautiful. Lifting was beautiful. Everything was beautiful.

((There are five weight classes which had actual amounts of weight attached to them but which, for the purposes of this log, are heretofore referred to as:
1. Small Child (aka Featherweight)
2. What Should Pass For Normal Woman (aka Lightweight)
3. What Should Pass For Normal Dude (aka Welterweight)
4. Bara Dad (aka Middleweight)
5. Character Chris Plays. (aka Heavyweight)
This isn't to say that a male character cannot be in the second tier, or a female character in another tier, these are just to give ideas. Little Mac might be in the second tier. Hagakure would be in the third, even though he is technically a Character Chris Plays. You get the idea.

In the 'competition' thread if you could kindly rate your character on two criteria (Strengt/raw power and Weightlifting Practice/knowledge of form), with a 1 being 'poor/untrained' and 5 being 'expert level' I'm going to use a d6 dice rolling system to figure out how well your character lifts, based on how many ranks they have in these categories. Yes, I'm a nerd, thank you.

Scale:

You're all beautiful people, and I love you.))

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Tell us about it, Jock.

Jock weighed a hefty 225 pounds; this put him firmly in the 4th weight class. He was ready for this. He was so ready. He was going to lift so much more weight than anybody else. He was going to beat them all.

So when he didn't beat them all, he made the most comical faces in the world when he attempted lifts that he just couldn't do. The strain on his face as he attempted that 400 pound deadlift was adorable. While he had an impressive number of muscles. . . he just couldn't get it more than halfway up before, shaking, it slipped from his hands.

To add insult to injury, he watched both Sonny and Vinnie lift more than he did in the deadlift.

And so he moved on to the bench press where he did a very impressive 335, three wheels on each side and a pair of tens, but when it came time to move another weight level up (three wheels and 25s), it stalled. He got his halfway up, shook violently, and had to have the spotter (thanks, Max) help it up.

Vinnie and Sonny both hit higher numbers than he did.

His final chance to shine was the squat. He was going to do it. And, while he eventually discovered that he and the Snorlax were tied for weight percentages, with Jock hitting four wheels and making the bar bend (sweet vengeance) the fact that Jock had watched Vinnie hit the seventh, eighth, ninth, and sweet Arceus, tenth level just broke his little puppy heart. He'd wanted to do so much better than everyone else, but instead all he'd done was be average.

How could his trainer love him if he was only average? A Venusaur beat him. It was like getting knocked out by a block of tofu. Pacifist tofu.

When it was all over, in his much-too-tight t-shirt, he looked glum.

While the numbers might have said average, Blue believed otherwise. Jock was nothing short of amazing. She'd hit up the weight room, she knew there had to be effort and commitment there.

So Blue had climbed on top of her seat, cupping her hands round her mouth and shouting as loud as her voice would let her.

"THAT'S MY BOY!! YOU DID IT!! I LOVE YOU!!"

And she sounded so proud.

Jock waves to mom. He still looks glum, but he waves to mom because he has to wave for mom.

Your very good friend Sunshine Mortimer is cheering for you from the competitor area.

"Woohoo! Go Jock! You did really great! Yaaaaay for Jock!"

Because he was a very supportive person.

Jock waves to Sunshine Mortimer. Glumly. He walks back to the competitor area.

"Thanks, Sonny, you did real good, too. Better than I did." Saddest puppy voice.

"It's OK! You'll do better than me another time! This was just one time and you do lots of things better than me every single day! So, don't be sad, OK?"

"Thanks, Sonny. But I got beat by a Venusaur. How am I supposed to live now? Vinnie's so much better than I am. I'm an Arcanine. It's awful."

"Vinnie has just put in a lot of time at the weight room. That's all." Soothed Sonny. "And remember that we all did this competition as Humans, not Pokémon. So, you weren't really beaten by a Venusaur - you were beaten by another Human Man and that's OK! That just means you have some room to get stronger and that's going to be a lot of fun! You can have a new goal, now!"

Here, Jock. Have a hug.

"I wanted to be the strongest, for Blue. I wanted Blue to have the strongest pokemon man here. But you and Vinnie are both better than me. Do you think Max will do this again so I can train and beat you in the future?"

He needs this for his life.

"If you ask him nicely then I bet he will! He's having a lot of fun today so I'm sure - super sure - that if you told him you wanted to try again next year and do better? He would say yes. And probably? He'd even help you more to achieve your goals because he wants you to be the best Jock you could ever be! At lifting weights!"

"Do you really think I can be better than you next year? Really for real?"

"Really for real. You can be as good as you want to be, Jock!"

"I love you."

"Awww! I love you too, Jock!" he replied, giving his good friend a sweaty, hairy, muscly hug.

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