Yeah.

Like for me, it's like, if I put 495 kilos on the bar and I stand up with it, I squat down and I stand up with it, you can't tell me I didn't hit that, right? Like you can say I didn't get low enough, but you can't tell me I didn't hit that.

Like how many people can put that on their back raw, like just regular, just put clothes on, squat down, not many people.

So like, I'm willing to bomb out.

That's on squat, that's on bench, that's on deadlift, like, Like, when you're an elite, I know, like, when you watch Worlds, you hear them talking about, like, oh, should this person go up in between lists? Like, when you're at this level, you kind of have to throw away conservatism.

Like, you have to go on, especially if you're going to win, right? Like, granted, like, at Worlds, not everybody, not everybody, like, you might have a list of 20 athletes with, like, maybe only, like, four or five, probably got a chance to win, then you got probably, like, about a set of six to eight that can make podium, so it's, like, obviously, like, if you're not in that one, two, three range, you probably don't want to, you probably want to be conservative, probably take that again, but it's, like, every meet that I'm going to be in from now on, hopefully, I'm going to be in that one or two like kind of slot.

So it's like being conservative won't benefit me, especially when I'm going against the person who holds the total world record.

right you don't need kit to do it you don't need equipment to do it you can just go to your local pure gym and do it if you want to um and i think then we get more fans for the sport and we see more growth of the sport just from people having a bit of an interest and sorry that was a bit of a ramble about the growth of powerlifting but i like the sport if you can't tell

Now at this point, how did the deadlift feel on the day

and surprises for you? Now, um, we we took we audible that when like, we wanted 370 but It was one of those days where deadlift, it wasn't talking to me, right? Like, it wasn't telling me, push it.

So, and one thing we're working on is lockout, like, finishing with my thoracic extension, finishing locking it out without hitching, right? My biggest thing on deadlift is I hitch a lockout.

I hit the top like it's fast until it's not.

Kind of like what he said with bench, like it's fast until it's not.

340, you see it, it's like, oh my God.

Then I do 360 and it's like, what happened? It's like, I just hit a wall, right? I'm such a big guy, big legs, like big chest, I got to stand it up.

It's

Lou, have you always been, have you always been big? Like your whole life as a kid, the whole night?

So, yeah, like what's crazy is when I played college football, I was maybe I don't know how to talk in kilos.

I was I played football at about 340 to about 360.

So what really got me into powerlifting was I I really just wanted to go back to the gym.

I got played football.

I did cheerleading in college and I was just like going to work, coming home, going to work, coming home.

I'm just like.

Right.