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By easier I was referring to intensity, rather than the experience of your ligaments. Presumably now that you've gotten into powerlifting you don't still lift

By easier I was referring to intensity, rather than the experience of your ligaments. Presumably now that you've gotten into powerlifting you don't still lift the same weight you did when you started. If you did, it would indeed be easier. But you probably lift more weight, so that the intensity is similar. (To be completely transparent, I wasn't trying to state a universal truth. That phrase is just a common tongue-in-cheek joke among runners and cyclists; I misread the crowd a bit assuming it'd be recognized)

cthalupa 2y ago
Sure - you want to keep ramping up the intensity, otherwise yeah, you're not making any gains, be it in cardiovascular performance/VO2 max/max weight you can lift/number of reps you can do/etc. And yeah, I missed the joke. There are a lot of people that seem to think that obese people can fairly easily just stand up on day one and start working their ass off, though, and that this is the only thing holding them back from changing their lifestyle, so I made the faulty assumption your comment was along those lines. (These days I'm thinking I'm going to be move towards being more focused on the hypertrophy aspect - less likely to injure myself, and I gotta do something to fill out at least some of the loose skin that awaits me on the other end of the weight loss journey)