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

[tank_rockarms]

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.
<b>Weight class</b>: <b>Strength (1-5)</b>: <b>Weightlifting Practice (1-5)</b>:

Scale:


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

Comments

[trustycrowbar]

"Compete." He replies, picking up a copy of the form himself. "I'm pretty sure I'm welterweight... What does welterweight actually mean, anyway? What's a welter?"

You're getting off-topic, Gordon. He coughs, and leans over the table to fill out the form.

"I'm not going to pretend I've done this before; you're the veteran here so if you've got advice... I'm willing to hear it."

Listening to his tone, one can imagine that somewhere deep in the woods there's a buried hatchet... with a gauntlet thrown in the hole.

[tank_rockarms]

"It means you weigh in the middle," said Max.

"By 'pretend to have done this before' I'm gonna assume you mean 'compete in a powerliftin' competition' and not 'done deadlifts'" Max stated, even though he could have, based off of your earlier statements about the pointlessness of meatheads lifting while you were running daintily around a track in college, assumed the second.

"So, you go out, everybody in your weight class benches a weight based off of percentages of the average body weight, that's why you're in a weight class, startin' light and easy and workin' up from there. If everybody does it, we move up to the next weight, and do it again. When you fail to do a lift, you're out. Guy or girl who lifts the heaviest wins that lift for their weight class. There's three lifts, in this order - deads, bench, and squats. We're givin' your legs a little break with the bench in between. Wear your shirt, wait for your name to be called, and I write down what you did. Any other questions?"

[trustycrowbar]

"No, you've covered it pretty succinctly." He mutters in return. The rest was going to have to boil down to observing the other lifters, and he can do that.