This is a YouTube video titled "Powerlifting - Growing the community" containing a monologue or personal narrative from July 30, 2023, where the speaker discusses their journey into powerlifting, their background in college football, and their evolving interest in strength training and powerlifting. The content focuses on personal experience and the powerlifting community growth.
When I first got into powerlifting, I think I probably would have started competing much sooner than I did if there were more opportunities to compete. So I. After I finished playing college football and I moved back home, I kind of got back into the gym after some time off and kind of fell back in love with the gym and lifting weights. And I was super into bodybuilding at the time and. And I had heard kind of about this, this powerlifter named Ed Cohn, this super strong guy, and I'm like, oh, this like, powerlifting thing seems kind of cool. You know, you do the squat bench and the deadlift and, you know, I used to do those movements when I played college football for strength and conditioning. And it was always fun. Like, I lift, liked lifting heavier a lot better than I liked, like the bodybuilding stuff. So I was like, hey, I'll do this like, power building thing. And I kind of like started self identifying as a powerlifter, even though I had like, no clue what I was doing at the time.
