Edited sentence: However, it is considered world wide a better and more popular sport than the more similar sport of powerlifting.The idea of weightlifting is not just strength, but at the elite level ones ability to move a weight quickly, making it much harder to lift a relative weight to powerlifting, and more fair on body types.They still tend to be quite thick set body type, but not like the best powerlifters extremely slow movements, with a tiny body size (in terms of leverage etc)