Weightlifting should be a school sport

It’ll motivate people more to get into the fitness side of life. If someone is better than you at another school, you can always beat them, and keep practicing. They should have heaviest weight contest, and pound for pound contest. I think that it should be a winter season sport, since we can’t get outside much in this kind of weather, but we can focus on ourselves and our condition. I think that pound for pound is a lot more important, because it really determines your strength. So to speak, if you were that same guy but 200 pounds instead of what you normally weigh, you can out lift more than that “big guy” if ratio was the case. So at Kennedy, if I can hang clean 1.7 times the body weight, and it’s not on the record, well that just makes me underrated athlete. The record is 325 pounds, and if I was 210 pounds like that guy whom set the record, well I would get almost 360 pounds! Just imagine crazy scenarios like that.

I believe that if you get medals, and attention, there will be more people in the sport. Look at cross country population, less than 30, and we work hard, running ten miles a day isn’t an easy task, and on the other side, football players. They’re working just as hard, or not as hard if they only hustle, and they get many attention, because the style of the game is great, in result of that, they have almost 150 guys in high school playing football. That’s more than quadruple.

To make the game more fair, they should have age, body weight, and gender in different groups. So that way they can really measure your mental strength in the process, which is what separates the winners. Let’s just say we are weight-lifting for reps, there will obviously be people doing more than others, even if they have a same max outs.

Basically to this sport, it would be fun to be in, but for parents watching, it can be nerve wrecking. There are many combinations to make the competition more fair, and interesting. Maybe pull-ups, inverted pull-ups, pushups, and many other non-weights can be in the game too. Just to see who has the mental strength, and for sure after the contest we’ll all be sore, but hey, pain is gain, we’ll get better after more contests. We should structure it in a way where we depend on our team too, not individual competition. Unless if you’re going to state, if this thing can be a sport, in Olympics it is, so why not?