{"id":426028,"date":"2022-08-22T03:50:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T07:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=426028"},"modified":"2022-08-22T03:53:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T07:53:34","slug":"how-competition-holds-us-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/22\/how-competition-holds-us-back\/","title":{"rendered":"How Competition Holds Us Back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The downside of competition; we must abide by the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153rules\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of the competition. Rules, conventions, and what is standard and proper hold us back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, the only reason I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see more people using a trap bar for deadlift is because of powerlifting competitions. I believe if strong guys would just use the trap bar, or hex bar, men would be able to deadlift a lot more.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Also, competition encourages cheating. It encourages people to start using strange hormones, and drugs, in order to enhance performance. This is bad.<\/p>\n<p>What is the successful \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we lifting anyways? To me, simply muscular activation, increased blood flow, and hype.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The downside of competition; we must abide by the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153rules\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of the competition. Rules, conventions, and what is standard and proper hold us back. For example, the only reason I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see more people \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426028"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426031,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426028\/revisions\/426031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}