Monday, April 9, 2018

Time To Choose: Bodybuilder or Powerlifter?

Massively built and cut champion Chris Bumstead has nothing to prove.

Are you a Bodybuilder or Powerlifter? Don’t confuse the two.

Powerlifting is all about hoisting as much weight as you can possibly move—for competition, personal empowerment, or just plain ego. 

Bodybuilding is all about sculpting your body utilizing specific exercises designed and proven historically to accomplish exactly that purpose.

In every gym there are those who are struggling to perform bodybuilding exercises by utilizing inappropriate and counterproductive powerlifting poundages. For these people, questionable bragging rights (I can bench 400 lbs.!) take precedence over actual aesthetic results.

Many an unremarkable online vlogger likes to brag about performing one-armed biceps curls with a 65, 85, or even 100 lb. dumbbell, yet in a recent video I watched awesome bodybuilding champ Chris Bumstead using just 40 lb. dumbbells for his biceps curl workout.

A champion is someone who doesn’t have to prove anything to anyone else—least of all trolls and insecure know-it-alls.

2 comments:

  1. Keep the articles coming, Richard! Great stuff. Hope you are fully recovered from your recent illness

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