
Originally Posted by
musclestack
It's a 'shirt' that power lifters use in competition. It's has kind of a spring mechanism, and can add a lot of weight to your lifts.
Note that usually there is an option to compete geared I.e. With a shirt or squat suit, or you can compete raw. Geared lifters compete against each other and raw lifters with each other. But as I mentioned earlier: "If you can't lift it raw, you can't lift it".