Body building and power lifting

[anabolictonic]

Biologically how come a 180lb power lifter can bench press sometimes twice as much as 180lb body builder? Are fibres closer together or somethin to do with CNS or wat?

[Lemonada8]

body builders arent necessarily super strong, they are more concentrating on the formation of muscle, while power lifters concentrate on being stronger... its all on what you are trying to acomplish....

[Bossman]

I believe the muscle is denser for strength trained atheletes. My 16 yr old son competed in powerlifting and trained specifically for it. He was disappointed after a year of powerlifting that he had gained no weight or size but his strength gains were very good. At 180 lbs he had a 445 deadlift/365 squat and 245 bench. Not bad for 16.

[Matt]

I believe the muscle is denser for strength trained atheletes. My 16 yr old son competed in powerlifting and trained specifically for it. He was disappointed after a year of powerlifting that he had gained no weight or size but his strength gains were very good. At 180 lbs he had a 445 deadlift/365 squat and 245 bench. Not bad for 16.

Thats great for a 16 year old lol, is he going to stick with the powerlifting, or would he look at bbing??

[novastepp]

I may get flamed a bit, but they are different sports. It's like asking why a marathon runner can run longer than a bodybuilder because we train legs so hard. Obviously there are other things involved, and in your example I believe the example to be that the training is different.

[Bossman]

Thats great for a 16 year old lol, is he going to stick with the powerlifting, or would he look at bbing??

He came back to bbing. For a while, then started to chase women with most of his spare time. I want to pull his ass into the gym, but he needs to want to workout on his own.

He's lost a good 15 lbs of mass, makes me want to cry.

[IronReload04]

Biologically how come a 180lb power lifter can bench press sometimes twice as much as 180lb body builder? Are fibres closer together or somethin to do with CNS or wat?

powerlfiters- use bench shirts and squat suits for one which can add hundreds of pounds. The raw bench press record is like 700, but the shirted record is like over 1000. power lifters use leverage to get in a mechanically more favorable position to lift heavier weight ie arching their back in benching and feet wide as hell with squatting.

bodybuilders take away mechanical leverage in lifts and try to focus on just the muscles moving the weight. Comparing a bench or squat between the two groups is pointless and not worth anthing.

This is the general idea







powerlifters to recruit all their fibers for a lift, and for those fibers to twitch super fast.

bodybuilders, more focused on hypertrophy.





so Having said all that, it is kind of a mystery still. why is this a mystery? Because powerlifters all the time diet down and destroy shows in bodybuilding. they catch shit for looking fat, but its done time and time again where fat powerlifters diet down and end up killing shows in bodybuilding.



what we can learn, is that for muscle growth, powerbuilding is best. train to get stronger in certain rep ranges like 6-10 but in perfect and safe form....ie ronnie coleman


also ronnie coleman was a powerlifter before bodybuilding and J jackson does powerlifting as well




edit- genetics are a factor to. better muscle insertions can lead to better strength. so you can have a guy who can lift heavier with less muscle mass than someone else because of his muscle insertion points.'


ultimately, it is about genetics. THe big boys have it in their genes and anything they do will result in them being one of hte big boys

[Deltasaurus]

PowerLifting=Moving Weight from point A to B the Easiest way possible

Bodybuilding=Lifting the weight keep as much tension on the muscle and possible, and making the lift harder.

I know powerlifters who eat good and train 4 on 3 off and they are HUGE!!!! also the good ones are very lean too