Difference between weightlifting, bodybuilding, and powerlifting?
I was just wondering the difference between weightlifting, powerlifting, and bodybuilding to find out my style. I think I've always been a kind of a bodybuilding and weightlifting hybrid, I do bodybuilding exercise and train hard but my main goals are strength and size, I'm not really sure which one I'd choose if I had to pick one because I want to be both, but if I had to choose I'd go with strength, even though a strong person will still be big to an extent.
If anyone could tell me or hint me my style that would be great, I guess the best way to describe my training is that I do bodybuilding exercises and routine(5 days a week, 1 muscle group a day, 4 exercises per day/muscle group, 4 sets per exercise), but my rep ranges are more on the strength side of the spectrum(average rep range is usually around 6-8, sometimes less than 6, sometimes higher than 8 depending on the exercise. My ultimate goal is to have good size but have even greater strength.
Any help would be great!
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[QUOTE=youngbuckjeff3;625719513]I was just wondering the difference between weightlifting, powerlifting, and bodybuilding to find out my style. I think I've always been a kind of a bodybuilding and weightlifting hybrid, I do bodybuilding exercise and train hard but my main goals are strength and size, I'm not really sure which one I'd choose if I had to pick one because I want to be both, but if I had to choose I'd go with strength, even though a strong person will still be big to an extent.
If anyone could tell me or hint me my style that would be great, I guess the best way to describe my training is that I do bodybuilding exercises and routine(5 days a week, 1 muscle group a day, 4 exercises per day/muscle group, 4 sets per exercise), but my rep ranges are more on the strength side of the spectrum(average rep range is usually around 6-8, sometimes less than 6, sometimes higher than 8 depending on the exercise. My ultimate goal is to have good size but have even greater strength.
Any help would be great![/QUOTE]
it actually sounds like you have a pretty well rounded program. my names tyler and im on my way to becoming a personal trainer...not to mention im an all around strength enthusiest. before we start just know that i prefer strength and conditioning rather than bodybuilding but ill keep my opinions and things im about to say as unbuyest as possible lol.....bodybuilders and strength trainers always seem to be revaling with one another...bodybuilders think strength trainers look hidius and brag about how much weight they can put up and strength trainees are always harping on bodybuilders because theyre`all show and no go` im sure youve heard the famous question...its usaually asked by a really small guy in the gym to a very large weightlifter "nice body,but what can you do with it?" here it is as simply as i can put it out there....you can do both...and it sounds like you are...even tho the lifts look like theyre the same everything about bodybuilding is different than strength and conditioning....athletes stregnth and condition. its a style of lifting that assists them in their sports performance...example:athelets should never do exercises such as barbell curls. why? because isolating muscles in exercises teaches your nervous system to overrecruit them in a pattern or movement and in a high contact sport hocky,football,mma,boxing etc this can cause a career threatening injury. 9 out of 10 times strength and conditioning trainees are not going above a 5 rep max for their major compound lifts..deadlift,bench press,squats,overhead press etc. strength and conditioning trainees primary goal is to get better at their sports performance and usually thats it..hope that wasnt too confusing....bodybuilding is well,building up your body lol. mainly through diet...be not decieved my friend there is no human alive that can"eat whatever they want" and still make "visible" gains. weve all heard that guy in the gym. hes usually that same idiot swearing he packed on 10 lbs of muscle mass in a month(anatomicaly impossible) . bodybuilding focuses on stressing,fatiuqing and down right abusing muscle fibers to rebuild them (with proper nutrition and lifestyle) to look....pretty. not being funny but thats what bodybuilding is all about in a nutshell. looking pretty and being healthy. id say your a hybrid. which is honestly the best approach in my opinion...youre not an athlete so you can get away with building your muscles up and making them look swole and amazing...and youre not all the way a bodybuilder so you dont have to guilt rid yourself over everything you eat and you can gain all the benifits of the compound lifts...an example ideal workout of both training methods would look like this
chest day
bench press 2-6 sets of 3-5 reps
incline dumbell press 3-4 sets of 8-10 reps
dips 3-4 sets of 8-12 reps
butterfly or pecdeck machine 3 sets of 12-15 reps
pushups 3 sets untill failure
understand that strength and conditioning is completely different than bodybuilding..everything down to your grip placement on the bar for whatever exercises you choose probably has a huge variation difference..look into a strength and conditioning or powerlifting channel on youtube and find a way to intergrade both methods into your training and be the baddest dude in your gym ;P
also important...if your doing under 5 reps for any exercise at all its critical to give yourself what they call a "deload week" whatever exercise youve been doing you must take a break and do something like 3 sets of 10 reps