Guo Lingling, a powerlifting champion at the Tokyo Paralympics, faced significant challenges in her youth due to polio, which left her dependent on a wheelchair and crutches.
He told me that he used to play football in high school and that he was also very passionate about powerlifting at that time and he even had aspirations of becoming a professional powerlifter.
So I'm going to cite quite a bit of work from my powerlifting coach, Zach Robinson, because he is at FAU, just finished his PhD and did a lot of meta-regressions and meta-analyses on this exact topic.
And I know this because I've, like when I overreach for powerlifting competitions, which is basically like we're taking me a little bit past my point of what I can recover from, Mean I've had Literally before nationals in 2017.