Bodybuilding Routines: Post Your Bodybuilding Training For Help With A New Routine

[the_alcatraz]

Re: Post up your bodybuilding training problems and I'll help you develop a new routi

You can't achieve that much thickness without a powerlifting backgroun. You can almost always tell who had a powerlifter's background.

 

[ceo]

Re: Post up your bodybuilding training problems and I'll help you develop a new routi

You are absolutely right. However, being a powerlifter and coming from a powerlifting background are two different things.

The above mentioned all came from a powerlifting background, but they had to train in the principles of bodybuilding and NOT powerlifting to win the Olympia. Well, not Jackson.

How is that 2 different things? Sounds like the same thing to me. They were once powerlifters. They dieted down and looked thicker than 99% of the bodybuilders.

I say it was that powerlifting base that built Ronnie's Olympia winning physique. You basically admit to this in your last post. lol! You ok bro? Maybe you're really tired. You seem confused.

Ronnie may have done a little more isolation work after stepping on a bodybuilding stage, but that isn't what won him all those O's.

 

[SaiBoT]

Re: Post up your bodybuilding training problems and I'll help you develop a new routi

How is that 2 different things? Sounds like the same thing to me. They were once powerlifters. They dieted down and looked thicker than 99% of the bodybuilders.

I say it was that powerlifting base that built Ronnie's Olympia winning physique. You basically admit to this in your last post. lol! You ok bro? Maybe you're really tired. You seem confused.

Ronnie may have done a little more isolation work after stepping on a bodybuilding stage, but that isn't what won him all those O's.

Sorry but to be a Mr Olympia you have to go past the powerlifting... Powerlifting workouts and diet builds functional hypertrophy, bodybuilding workouts are not about functional hypertrophy... but are towards developing sarcoplasmic hypertrophy which comes through diet and higher rep-ranges who don't usually fit on powerlifting routines.

I agree that a powerlifting is way superior to build quality muscle that looks great even when relaxed! But don't say that if a powerlifter diets down he would look great on stage because this is not entirely true, because there is the issue of overdeveloped glutes and a thick waist which you don't see on Mr O Dexter Jackson.

Powerlifters aren't looking for aesthetics... the ones who are look for the bodybuilding type of routine.

Speaking about Mariusz Pudz... he is just a freak of nature, no one looks like him...

 

[Thandie]

Re: Post up your bodybuilding training problems and I'll help you develop a new routi

I have another question:
I started the DC program in order to build muscles. As I am a figure competitor, I'm afraid to wind up too bulky and not defined enough. Should I do this type of program since I'm not BB, and if so, how long should I continue it for before I start doing volume?
Thanks.

 

[the_alcatraz]

Re: Post up your bodybuilding training problems and I'll help you develop a new routi

How is that 2 different things? Sounds like the same thing to me. They were once powerlifters. They dieted down and looked thicker than 99% of the bodybuilders.

I say it was that powerlifting base that built Ronnie's Olympia winning physique. You basically admit to this in your last post. lol! You ok bro? Maybe you're really tired. You seem confused.

Ronnie may have done a little more isolation work after stepping on a bodybuilding stage, but that isn't what won him all those O's.

Not every Olympian has a powerlifting background. Powerlifting is not about looks lol at trying to convince me otherwise....no, its not the powerlifting background that got him the O, but it did help...it got him thickness, sure...what about muscles isolation, separation, definition, dieting, specialized training, etc...so many diff. things...it's a lifestyle - bodybuilding is a lifestyle compeletely diff. than that of a powerlifter's.

 

[the_alcatraz]

Re: Post up your bodybuilding training problems and I'll help you develop a new routi

Sorry but to be a Mr Olympia you have to go past the powerlifting... Powerlifting workouts and diet builds functional hypertrophy, bodybuilding workouts are not about functional hypertrophy... but are towards developing sarcoplasmic hypertrophy which comes through diet and higher rep-ranges who don't usually fit on powerlifting routines.

I agree that a powerlifting is way superior to build quality muscle that looks great even when relaxed! But don't say that if a powerlifter diets down he would look great on stage because this is not entirely true, because there is the issue of overdeveloped glutes and a thick waist which you don't see on Mr O Dexter Jackson.

Powerlifters aren't looking for aesthetics... the ones who are look for the bodybuilding type of routine.

Speaking about Mariusz Pudz... he is just a freak of nature, no one looks like him...

That's what I'm trying to say...

lol at a powerlifter using powerlifting to win the Olympia...you have to be a bodybuilder IMO

 

[OneBreath]

Re: Post up your bodybuilding training problems and I'll help you develop a new routi

I have another question:
I started the DC program in order to build muscles. As I am a figure competitor, I'm afraid to wind up too bulky and not defined enough. Should I do this type of program since I'm not BB, and if so, how long should I continue it for before I start doing volume?
Thanks.

Others will post up but my opinion is that the "bulk" will be a function of your diet. If you are eating 1,000 calories above maintenance i would worry but i know you are not doing that LOL.

I think i remember your goal being to add a little bit of muscle in the offseason, is that right? I would say for someone like you at your fitness level, doing DC and eating just slightly above maintenance would be a good strategy to reach your goal. At your current BF % you can just watch the scale and if you see it going up too much, drop the calories a tad. Not moving at all, up the calories a tad.

 

[OneBreath]

Re: Post up your bodybuilding training problems and I'll help you develop a new routi

I have to weigh in on this whole Powerlifter debate. Ronnie Coleman said it best.

"Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder but nobody wants to lift no heavy ass weights!"

 

[the_alcatraz]

Re: Post up your bodybuilding training problems and I'll help you develop a new routi

I have to weigh in on this whole Powerlifter debate. Ronnie Coleman said it best.

"Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder but nobody wants to lift no heavy ass weights!"

- Ronnie Coleman

 

[MsBeverlyHills]

Re: Post up your bodybuilding training problems and I'll help you develop a new routi

my training problems-

-where to look during squats? ive heard at a spot on the floor about 10 feet in front of you or keep your head up so you dont round your back. which is right?

-Is is better to squat in lifting shoes w/ an elevated heel (Ironworks) or flat shoes (Converse Chuck Taylors) w/your heels on plates?

-What position should you be trying to achieve in squats? very upright or slightly bent forward w/arched back?? Ive seen both ways, but it feels better on my lower back to be very upright. your thoughts?

thanks, Ms BH