Hours Per Week
Total Hours Per Week - 168
Beast Mode Powerlifter - #1 goal to be the best of the best, best they can be, WR, or whatever is making it their first priority. They say they will do ANYTHING to become better!
Hours Week Training - Average 10
Hours Sleeping - 56
Remaining Hours - 102
* Maybe they have a part time job of 15-20 hours a week - or they just train people online using the same program for everyone (less than 20 hours per week). The reality is they are probably on the DM's, Texting and scrolling feeds all day.
Some might work a full time job - if this is the case it still leaves 40 hours for personal development
I am told all the time, "I just don't have the time" "All the training kicks my ass"
IN CONTRAST
D-1 Top 20 Football Player - #1 Goal to make it to the NFL. They will also do anything to make it to the next level - maybe more so than the top Powerlifter as many of the lifters I know won't drive an extra 20 minutes to train with a group that can make them better - for free.
Hours Week Training - In Season - 20 Hours Allowed By The NCAA. The coaches can't do more than that and stay compliant. The kids however can review game film on their tablets, Jog, and basic recovery on their own. I will only bump this up to 30 hours.
[300% more time working their SPP than the PL]
Hours Sleeping - 56
Remaining Hours - 82
In these remaining 82 hours they find time to eat, go to class, study periods, play video games, hang with friends. They find time to build a future and social network.
INTERESTING ISN'T IT?
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT
Hey, just because something's your first priority, doesn't mean you have to be a lazy piece of shit to do it. I was going to save this for the article I was going to write for this month, but over the past three weeks, four weeks, I've been having the same conversation over and over again. I think just four times in the last few days and twice this morning where I kind of equated it to being I'm the guy now sitting on the other side of the table and I've made that comparison before where when I was younger, powerlifting was my number one priority for a lot longer than people, most of the people today that say that it's their number one priority.
From '83 to 2004, it was my number one priority by far. Very few things were even close to it. It's a long-ass time to have something to be your number one priority. I don't have a whole lot of fucking compassion when people tell me that powerlifting is their life and it's their number one priority, and you find out that they've only been in the sport for fucking 12 months. I don't have a whole lot of compassion for that, because they haven't proven that it's even a fucking single priority, to begin with.
Outside of that to get to the point, when I was younger, I had people try to explain to me the importance of trying to do things outside of powerlifting, while I was , so it didn't end up becoming the only thing that I knew, and the importance of education, the importance of school, the importance of having a fucking life outside of that. That includes Louie by the way, for all those people that think that West Side was so hardcore and he did, man. He pushed us hard. He made it a point to make sure a lot of us knew that it could not be the only thing that we had. He drove that into me, but I also had it driven into me by a lot of people beforehand.
People I've been speaking to lately as I said over the past month, there is nothing else. It's like power lifting is it. There's no education. They're not going to school. They're not trying to learn a trade. They're not trying to build a skill. They're not trying to hone a craft. They're not even trying to learn how to fucking train better, because they have a coach that's doing that for them. They're just working some part-time job or selling bogus online training to be able to support them while they bust their ass to try to get into the top 20 or the top 10, or to be ranked first or break a world record or whatever it's going to be, but that's it. There's nothing else.
These guys that I'm talking to, they're in their 20s, 25, and couple in their 30s and they're going to wake up, man and I know people like this. They're going to wake up in their 40s, in their 30s, 40s, 35, 50, they're going to wake up and they're not going to have a Goddamn thing. Maybe they might have a fucking world record total, that's great. I hope that's the case. I hope they get everything out of it. I mean if they're putting that much in it, they should be getting something out of it.
They got to have something and I hate to use the backup plan bullshit because I do think that's bullshit. I think when people tell you have a backup plan and you start thinking about a backup plan, then you're kind of ingraining in your mind that possibility that you're not going to be able to succeed in what you're actually trying to really focus on, but you have to have other fucking things going on in your life or you're going to have nothing left when it's all over. You don't want that. Trust me, you don't want that.
If you do, fine, that's great. I wish you the best of luck, but when I ask people why that's it, I get shit like, well, they don't have the time. Recovery's important. Everything I hear is just fucking bullshit excuses. If want some context here, a division one athlete, let's take a top division one football program. In season, they're allocated 20 hours a week for training. If you take that, then you add on the shit that the athletes do themselves outside of the coaches, which is compliant. It's still compliant. I'm talking things like watching films on their iPads and stuff like that. They might be putting 30 hours a week into their specific sport training, 30 hours a week.
I asked on Instagram how many hours a week on average a powerlifter would train. The answer on average was 10. You got a division one athlete who's doing 300% more sport-specific work for their sport than the powerlifter is. Plus, they have to fucking go to class and get an education. That's part of the deal. A lot of them also have part-time jobs to be able to help support them because they don't make a Goddamn thing being a student-athlete.
I have a hard time with this I don't have time bullshit when we all have 168 hours per week. When you take the 10 hours from that, that a powerlifter trains, you're at 158. Take sleep away; you're at 100. If they do have a full-time job, you're still left with 60 hours to be able to build some craft, a skill, or something, education. I'm just ranting and going in circles.
The point of the whole thing is, don't be a fucking piece of shit and waste your life. You build your total as big as you fucking can. Break world records. Go 100% all in, but there's still other time during the day that you can work on building your education, building some skillset that's going to be able to help you later. It's not like there have been fucking 50 years of lifters that came before you that've done just that. Quit being a lazy fuck and making excuses.
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