Muscles hypertrophy in an effort to adapt to increased capacity. You can only add reps for a bit as the ranges here are fairly narrow. Strength must increase and it should be strength in the most stimulative lifts that drive adaptation in the organism.
If you lift weights, you are doing strength training. Maybe it's not for a single but it is to increase your capacity. BBing is not some different voodoo - they are simply increasing capacity in a slightly different range with less neural focus and feeding their body enough to put on muscle in response to the stimulus. Think of BBing as running the 45 rather than the 40. Instead of trying to hypothesize all kinds of garbage about the uniqueness of running the 45 and how a 45 sprinter is so different, they would benefit vastly from taking a look at the massive amount of knowledge accumulated regarding running the 40 and start applying it to get fast at the 45.
The bottom line is that what makes one fast in the 40 will carry you to very high levels in running the 45. Once you are at a fairly high level, understand your body, and have a solid foundation in training. Maybe then try to adapt your technique to give you that 2% edge in the 45.
I liked this quote - it is heavily sarcastic:
If you lift weights, you are doing strength training. Maybe it's not for a single but it is to increase your capacity. BBing is not some different voodoo - they are simply increasing capacity in a slightly different range with less neural focus and feeding their body enough to put on muscle in response to the stimulus. Think of BBing as running the 45 rather than the 40. Instead of trying to hypothesize all kinds of garbage about the uniqueness of running the 45 and how a 45 sprinter is so different, they would benefit vastly from taking a look at the massive amount of knowledge accumulated regarding running the 40 and start applying it to get fast at the 45.
The bottom line is that what makes one fast in the 40 will carry you to very high levels in running the 45. Once you are at a fairly high level, understand your body, and have a solid foundation in training. Maybe then try to adapt your technique to give you that 2% edge in the 45.
I liked this quote - it is heavily sarcastic:
What a lot of strength athletes don't understand is that bodybuilding is totally different. A whole different type of hypertophy that requires vastly different exotic training methods that rarely get results and generally require anabolics to break 200lbs. Let me tell you all that building significant muscle mass on a Yoda-esque program using exotic rep schemes on cables and machines, days of dedicated biceps training, with an overbearing focus on trace mineral balance and insufficient caloric intake makes it really hard to put on muscle. These guys have to have it all together to show any appreciable gains.
Guys that eat and are able to rely on basic programs to increase their weights in squats, pulls, and presses doing basic exercises that strengthen the body and force it to adapt with increased muscle have it easy. They will never know what it's like to fight through moronic inefficiency to needlessly differentiate your training and alleviate worry that when you eventually do start gaining weight someday, it will be in perfect symmetry and proportion - all at 2lbs a year.