Yeah, it is very annoying -- perhaps they just talked to an oly lifter? For power lifters, the measure of an athlete is how much he can bench press—some

Yeah, it is very annoying -- perhaps they just talked to an oly lifter? For power lifters, the measure of an athlete is how much he can bench press—something not included in Olympic competitions. That's just flat out not true, and not something anyone familiar with powerlifting would say, except perhaps in a pejorative sense. For those of you who may be unfamiliar, the standard measure of a powerlifter is your total: the combined single rep maximum in three attempts of your squat, bench, and deadlift.