Strength Training Vs Bodybuilding?
What is the difference?
Body building is for solely increasing size of our muscles. whereas, strength training is to improve our overall strength.
The central premise of Body building is to develop increased muscle size, rather than overall functional strength. Of course, our strength grows along the way, but focuses mainly on appearance.
We may also find that some bodybuilders are substantially weaker than they look, as the energy stored in their muscles is quite different from strength training. Their goal is to bulk their body so that they can excel in competitive exhibitions where the body looks phenomenal.
The central premise behind Strength training is to improve your overall strength and resilience rather than your aesthetic appearance.
Muscles are going to grow with strength training too. However, they aren’t going to grow as quickly as they would grow with bodybuilding techniques.
Both Techniques have advantages and disadvantages.
Let’s Get Deeper:
Body building:
We are going to be working towards getting our body to the pump. This is the where our blood will bring oxygen to our muscles, along with nutrients that give your body an increased amount of energy.
Over time, our muscles will become more abundant, as they’ll need to increase their storage capacity for more energy. This process is also known as hypertrophy.
There is an array of ways to breakdown our volume, such as four sets of five and six sets of six. The lower your sets, the heavier your loads will be, and the more sets you do, the less weight you’ll have to deal with.
The general question is Building Muscle Mass: More Weight or More Reps?
So, in general, low reps with heavy weight tends to increase muscle mass, while high reps with light weight increases muscle endurance.
Low reps with heavy weight tends to increase muscle mass, while high reps with light weight increases muscle endurance.
Strength training:
The only thing we have to focus on is the amount of force that our muscles can create to move and lift more massive objects. We won’t be paying much attention to the shape of our muscles or their size, The vast majority of people training for strength will focus on high weight and low reps.
After every workout, you’ll notice your bones will be harder, your connective tissues will be stronger, and your joints will be reinforced. Each lift has the primary goal of strengthening your muscles and your central nervous system.
Using heavy weights focuses on myofibrillar hypertrophy, resulting in muscle that is thicker and stronger, but not necessarily larger.
The Advantages and Disadvantages:
Both the techniques have advantages and disadvantages, let me tell you the main advantages and dis-advantages of each.
Body building alone can not make you stronger but it will give you a good aesthetic body, While Strength training makes you stronger but not give a aesthetic body and you will have injuries as you will be dealing with heavy weights.
It is one’s wish to do Body building or strength training. My suggestion is to have both in your workout routine as it makes you stronger and you will have a good body.
So, to conclude, have a schedule that contains at least deadlift and squat to build your strength.
More power to you
Lift Heavy
Stay Strong
Stay healthy
Here are two famous quotes which inspires me every time,
“The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone who is not a champion.”
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
“ Small progress is still progress.”
— Anonymous
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