Powerlifting belts: Prong, prongs, or lever?

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Instagram, But what lifting belts?
Do you recommend using a single and dual

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something that in general statement, I
think powerlifting equipment. He's just getting more

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popular and obviously more competitive. There's
more brands doing it, which I think

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is always good, right, because
then it's going to elevate quality and it's

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gonna competition often breeds the best out
of everyone. But the truth is my

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opinion, a couple of base brands
that are solid, insure's not going anywhere,

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and makes good equipment. They've been
around forever for a reason. Pioneer

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is someone I truly respect as a
company and as an equipment manufacturer, as

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a family owned, all made in
house, all American, really well made

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stuff, and on top of that
you can custom and then SPD belt.

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Right, those are kind of the
three basics that come to my brain when

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you're talking about what type of belts. Yeah, we have dual prong,

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single prong, you have different and
then lever, and then you also have

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different thicknesses of the belt itself.
Most of them have the same width,

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but it's the thickness. It's ten
millimeter and thirteen million popular. I think

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for ninety nine percent of raw lifters. It's not going to make a big

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difference whether you choose ten millimeter or
a thirteen millimeter, especially once you break

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it in a little bit, if
you sweat in it and lift with it

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for a couple of months, it'll
be absolutely fine. Jim was mentioning you

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only really used lever just because,
Yeah, yeah, just because. And

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part of it was because I was
listening in gear. It was just a

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lot easier than trying to tork down
a prong belt. Yeah, that makes

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a lot of simes. I don't
plenty of people who did it, but

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yeah, and even the prongs now
would be even better, right because they're

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all like multi faceted or multi side
like adjustable sizes. So if you wanted

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it tighter on a squat, because
that's the one negative of the lever,

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it's historical. Yeah, if you
want it like tighter on a deadlift and

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looser on a squat or vice versa
or a bench, you'd have to fuck

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with it. Now they have some
notches that you could do it. I've

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lifted it all every belt ever fucking
made. Honestly, I think they're all

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arguments for each are probably overrated.
I've had the same amount of success and

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all of them. Some people say
dual prong is like tighter on you,

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but I've had I think my current
is a single prong and it feels the

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exact same. It doesn't a single
prong let the belt flex a little bit

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maybe where that lever really doesn't.
Yeah, you can kilt the whole belt.

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Yeah, I think even that though. Yeah, for like again,

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ninety percent of people. It's just
not going to make a huge difference.

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I've had injured belts, I've used
SPD, I've used Pioneer, I've used

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many other companies. There definitely are
a ship belt. But I think once

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you get to like the gold standard, at least I mentioned you're kind of

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at that gold standard, then it's
not like, you know, it's not

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Honda versus Ferrari up there, they're
all kind of raris. They all fund

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it feel great. And then if
you go below that and not all brands,

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there's other good ones too. I
haven't mentioned, but there's some brands

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there they are just shit. Like
the first belt I ever bought, you

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know, I was on a budget. It was fifty bucks a side of

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like fake leather. You know that
sucks. But but once you get into

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a full leather made one of the
best companies, you'll probably be fine.

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It is an investment, you know, a lot of them are hundred two

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hundred, three hundred dollars, But
if you take care of it, it

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literally will last a lack of time. It's kind of like a good baseball

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glove or something. It's a leather
good. It's all based. Fuck with

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it. If you don't abuse it, if you don't throw it across the

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room, if you don't let it
get wet. Yeah, you're gonna be

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just fine. So choose carefully.
Yeah, at the beginning of that,

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colors and shit, and it's become
cool. And people have different belts if

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they're super particular, and if you
have the money, by all means,

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it's your money, do what you
want. But I use the same belt

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for everything. I use a single
prong. Now, I competed in a

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dual prong, and I first competed
in a lever, So I think it's

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slightly overrated. Whatever arguments people make
for you, yes, whatever is the

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most most comfortable for you, and
the way a way to find that out

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before you sink your money is to
be in a gym situation. Else's belt.

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Yeah, any things might work for
you. And then even that,

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it's kind of like shoes, right, like you don't really know to you

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wear it for months, correct,
you know, like yeah, yeah,

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I remember my dad making me run
around a shoe store, like how do

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those feel? I'm gonna feel fine, and then I get a blister the

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next day. Yeah, you have
no clue, but most belts do.

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Fit similar. Jim's right, like
the feel a little stiffer because it doesn't

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have that wave in it, but
it's not gonna make or break anything,

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so best to look to you.
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