Arnold Schwarzenegger Bodybuilding
Are bodybuilders really strong or are there muscles just for show? The answer is that some bodybuilders are indeed strong but that strength for physique competitors is a means to an end rather than the ultimate goal. The athletes who are most concerned with strength are weightlifters.
Weightlifting is a sport which is judged by the amount of weight a competitor can handle for a given type of lift. Over the course of history there have been many types of strength-testing and weight lifting competition.
Nowadays weightlifters do a lot of Arnold Schwarzenegger Bodybuilding training, this is, they work on balance development of all the muscle groups, but their primary goal is strength training. This even more so true of power lifters than Olympic weightlifters. Because their lifts involve a lot less technique, timing and coordination and are designed to be more specific tests of strength and power.
The major difference in programme between a weightlifters strength training and body building is that the lifter works in much lower rep range. That is while bodybuilders use less weight and do much higher reps sets, weight lifters are training to do one maximum rep in a competition so they frequently pile on the weight in their workouts and do triples (three reps), double (two reps), or singles (one rep) to prepare them for handling huge poundage’s