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Hey everybody. This is Kevin Weiss from bodyperformance.net brought to you by Rip Toned products. And today we're going to talk about the basics of power lifting, if you will, kind of a powerlifting 101. What you need to have as far as equipment goes and some of the things that you probably need to know before you actually enter a powerlifting competition. So, this is just going to be a real basic overview of stuff that's going to be helpful to you and also stuff that is required. So, before you even begin to powerlift, I would recommend that you, if possible, talk to somebody in person that actually has some experience in several competitions. Not somebody that has done one or two, but somebody that's done a pretty good number of competitions, so that they have a little bit of experience and they can guide you along the way, when it comes to making decisions about what kind of equipment you want to have, what federation you might want to compete in, as there's several, and the rules do vary slightly from one to another.
Some have drug testing, some do not have drug testing, so that can make a massive difference in the competition that you're up against. So, it's always a good idea to seek out someone that has a little bit of experience and kind of pick their brain for basic information. So, beyond that, you're going to need a certain minimum level of equipment. And to actually compete in a powerlifting competition, you don't need to have a lot of supportive, or specialty type equipment. The only thing that's actually 100% required, that you're going to have to buy an approved brand in most federations, is a powerlifting singlet, which is like a wrestling singlet, but is going to be made by an approved brand in the IPF, that's going to mean SBD, Inzer, Titan, A7. There's a few others as well, but if you show up to the competition and your singlet is not approved, they're not going to allow you to compete, unless you can borrow one that is approved from someone else, or something like that. And that can be a little more stress than you really need on the day of your first competition.
So, make sure beforehand, you know the rules of the federation, as far as what equipment is allowed, what brands are allowed, and you make sure that the singlet that you get, or any other equipment that you get, is going to fall under those guidelines. Now, beyond that, there's certain... like you have to wear shoes, you have to wear socks, you have to wear underwear, but none of those have to be an actual approved brand. There is some regulations on underwear and stuff like that. You can't have long legs on the underwear and various other things like that. All of these things will be covered in the rule book of the federation. So, it's a good idea, you can download that from the internet and just have a read through about what the actual specifications of your equipment are. Your shoes, they don't have to be any certain brand, but there is regulations on how high the heel can be and whatnot. So, you want to look at that.
You must have knee high socks for the deadlift and that's just to stop people from scraping their shins up and getting blood on there. But the socks at this time don't have to be any specific brand. And then we're getting into other stuff that is probably recommended to have, but not required. And that would be a belt. You obviously are going to get a benefit from having a belt. Your belt will have to be approved by the same... it has to be from one of the approved companies. But, you don't have to wear a belt if you choose not to. Knee wraps or knee sleeves and wrist wraps, they fall under that same idea. If you choose to wear them, they must be approved by that federation, but they're not required. A lot of times that I've competed, I've competed with no belt, no sleeves, no wrist wraps, or a combination of those things, where I've worn a belt only, or worn sleeves only, or whatever.
So, you have some leeway on what you actually choose to wear and what you choose to train in. And I recommend that you don't train in something that you're not going to wear on the platform. So that's just real basic as far as the equipment that you're going to need. Now, you want to make sure that, and part of that is talking to someone that knows a little bit about it, you want to make sure that you're training for powerlifting. And people may think that that means doing a lot of heavy singles and stuff like that and that definitely isn't true. You may do some heavy singles in the few weeks right before the meet, but a lot of the training in powerlifting...
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