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Weight Training For Bodybuilding or Strength

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If you are looking for the ultimate routine, exercise variation, rep, set or nutritional supplement sorry you are in the wrong place.

But if you want get under the bar and squat until your nose bleeds you are in the right spot.


The tenets on the weighttrainingforstrength.com gym wall are:


Lift damn heavy weights and put them down

Progression is everything

Bench Press

Squat

Deadlift

Front Press
 

The belief is in training for strength whether it is for bodybuilding or powerlifting that simple is good.

Please note I did say simple not easy!

Weight training for strength and bodybuilding

are two very different and often misinterpreted exercises.
It is important to know the difference; you don’t want to fall into the trap of training for muscle size if you want to increase your One Rep Max (or visa versa)
The intent of this article is contrast the different weight training
methods of bodybuilding and strength training.
If these differences are understood it will help ensure that trainee is using methods appropriate to their goals.


Weight Training For
Hypertrophy

Bodybuilding is a sport focuses that on muscle development for showing off the outward appearance of the bodybuilder especially for competitive exhibition.

Bodybuilding uses weight training to build up the visible amount of muscles on your body. This is achieved via hypertrophy to increase the and by reducing body fat to ensure the muscle is visible, this is often referred  to as being ripped.
During a bodybuilding competition the competitor is judged on the in a bodybuilding competition, you are judged on the aesthetics of the way they look, low body fat, muscular size (bulk/mass), symmetry and posing routine.
In Bodybuilding to grow bigger muscles you must train your muscles with enough intensity to stimulate hypertrophy. 

Typically that means you must be using weights that allow the completion of 6-12 reps but up to 15 reps is sometimes advocated. To train at this level most people will need to use weights of between 70% and 85% of their 1-rep maximums. This is weight training for hypertrophy as it causes micro-trauma to the muscle fibres that will result in muscle growth as the muscle repairs itself. This is that assuming proper rest and nutrition is supplied.

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