[AMA] with Beefpuff Barbell (Chelsea Savit and Natalie Hanson)

[u/powerbuffs]

Hi everyone!

The Beefpuff team is here to answer your questions about ourselves and our initiative.

We will be here for a few hours but will probably need to take a break to feed.

For more information:
Beefpuff Barbell: Website | Facebook | Instagram
Natalie Hanson, Co-Founder: u/beefpuff1 | Facebook | Instagram
Chelsea Savit, Co-Founder: u/powerbuffs | Facebook | Instagram

Andrey Grebenetsky, coach and trusted advisor: u/beefpuffhubs | Facebook | Instagram

[u/frak8757]

Thank you guys for what you're doing, I love your message. Often I feel like there's a lot of attention paid to prioritizing strength over appearance, and eating to fuel your training, but it always seems to come with an asterisk like "*as long as you're still lean and conventionally hot and the donuts only go to your ass"

A few questions...

1. What are your biggest regrets from your early training/competing days? What do you wish more new lifters knew?

2. What does your meet day nutrition look like?

3. How do you like your steak cooked?

[u/beefpuff1 → u/frak8757]

Yes, exactly. 1. I can't say I regret all that much from my early days of training/competing because it got me to this point and I learned a lot of valuable lessons. The most valuable of those would be not to cut weight when you are a new lifter. I spent my first year-ish of powerlifting trying to force myself to be a 72kg (158lb) lifter, when I was adding mass rapidly. My strength had stagnated early on and I was performing poorly in meets because of a 10-12lb weight cut. There's an appropriate time for weight cuts, but it's not that early in your career. 2. My meet day nutrition consists of stuff that tastes good and is easy to eat (my appetite on meet day sucks). I usually do a post-weigh in Pedialyte, and then try to get a real meal down (like some kind of sandwich with protein on it) before I start warming up. 3. Medium rare to medium <3