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Author Topic: Difference btwn powerlifting and bodybuilding?  (Read 724 times)
Sara_Beller
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« on: August 17, 2011, 09:43:58 PM »

Some basic info before my question.
I am a teenage female, and I am interested in POWERLIFTING.
My parents think I am into BODYBUILDING which is a total opposite... but I really can't find the words to explain to them that they are two different things.
They think that I am a girl it means I will lose my female figure because of the idea of lifting weights. I want to pursue this sport/ interest to the fullest, but there's the problem. They, like many of my friends, think I will become some kind of female version of the "hulk" and I am really getting sick of telling them that I am not a bodybuilder. Although, yeah, I do expect some (and do see) some mass gains, but it's not as serious as a bodybuilder.

How can I describe the difference btwn the two lifting styles?
And how do I convince my parents to support the choice of sport I have chosen without a vicious argument?

Thank you, fellow Answerers!! Smiley
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Allyson
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« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2011, 12:46:35 AM »

Saturday, May 21, 2011 |0 Comment
For those who are who are not aware, there exist a rivalry between body builders and weight lifters that is as baseless as it is ridiculous. Undercurrents of this rivalry stay hidden until a discussion arises about either among the opponent athletes. It should not actually be called a rivalry; rather we should call it a childish, ignorant and jealous-motivated propaganda. It stems from the two types of exercises being different and divergent in goals. While body builders exercise to stimulate muscle growth in terms of mass, weight lifters exercise to stimulate muscle growth in terms of strength.

Body builders are actually and objectively too, the guiltiest party of the existing hostility. Body builders are fond of coining disgusting names for their weight training allies, names that belittle weight trainers in general. Propaganda, as misinformed and baseless as only stupid things can be, circulate in all body building gyms. This propaganda refers to and regards weight training as a lesser form of training.
Strength in muscles does not in any way correlate with body fat accumulated. In fact, only the broken down fat can assist the body fuel lifts and not the solid deposits of fat. In actual sense, solid fats deposited along muscles delimit not assist in power lifting. It's a requirement for power lifters, just as many other athletes, to control and regulate their body fat.......
so don't be confused about power lifting and body building......
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