Watching Cailer Woolam made me start — training made me stay

I got into Powerlifting after watching Cailer Woolam compete and thinking I wanted a piece of that. Reality check: what they make look effortless takes years of work. The hip hinge I admired on screen took me 7 months just to do passably.

But somewhere in that process I stopped caring about looking like Cailer Woolam and started caring about my own progress with wilks score. That shift is when Powerlifting really got its hooks in me. hitting a three-white-light total is the part nobody sees in the highlights. injury risk at heavy loading is the part nobody mentions either. Both are real. Both are worth knowing.