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Re: powerlifting in college
Posted By: Brendan O (na6mr4fw01.fidelity.com)
In Response To: powerlifting in college (MegT)
Date: Friday, November 2, 2007, @ 5:54 p.m.
I definately feel for you.
I attended Boston College and like you needed to powerlift. I tried starting a team to no avail. Luckily, they had two unajustable squat racks and benches. At first I was pissed, not even adjustable pins. At least, I could do the essentials. I'd recommend what colleges you look at see if you can work out in the varsity weight room. If you can't look in the student weight room for bare essentials (squat or preferably power racks, benches, oly bars, olympic weights(no hexagonal plates!). Also be sure to see if deadlifting and chalk is allowed. Luckily, i worked in the weightroom so even though deadlifting was not allowed as it "could ruin the floor" they let it slide. As they did with the chalk (i was never man enough to bring in babypower).
On another note, sometimes the dorm buildings may actually have the bare essentials, squat racks, ability to do deadlifts. Usually, i find the people monitoring these little dorm gyms are just students and don't care what anyone does. So you can Deadlift and chalk away.
Finally, if you find yourself in a sub par gym situation as in like one bench or just a squat rack. let me know i made some improvisations in the gym like using floor tiles to increase my height for rack pulls and stuff like that. On the other hand if the gym only has machines try and find a local one to powerlift at.
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