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body building vs. powerlifting

bigandrew Posts: 5,146 Joined: 2002/10/21	2002/12/06, 01:50 PM i love doing body building workouts kepping the reps over and 8 rep seem to work best for me and my body type however i am into sports( i'm a cheerleader for my college) and the weight training guy says i need to do more 5,4,3,2 reps to work on my "power". I don't mind these reps but i don't feel i get a good work out when i do these 3 and 4 reps sets. and also are cleans concidered a good "body bouilding excercise"?
rev8ball Posts: 3,081 Joined: 2001/12/27	2002/12/06, 02:50 PM There tends to be a common misconception with powerlifting training: yes, it's true (and obvious) that we train for strength. However, we also train for speed. Because it is our goal to get the weight up, we are very concerned about the power of the movement. Briefly put: The lower the rep, the higher the % of your 1RM. in other words, you should be barely able to squeeze out the last rep of each set with that particular weight. This is your strength training. We also cycle our training. we do not just train for strength, i.e. low reps, all season long. Another major cycle is dynamic training, that is, speed. Something like doing 10 sets of 3 reps of 50% 1RM is a good example. And these are very FAST reps – you explode you 50% as if it were 100%! -------------- Michael "Trample the weak; hurdle the dead!"
Firehawk734 Posts: 295 Joined: 2002/07/31	2002/12/06, 04:26 PM All I care about is being strong. S ome wanna be able to lift an ungodly amount 1 time, me personally, I would rather lift a bit lighter than that huge amount but lift alot of times. Thats why I like strength training instead of power training. To me theres a difference.
the_w8lifter Posts: 138 Joined: 2001/08/03	2002/12/06, 05:05 PM From a cheerleaders perspective, I can say the power is 80%. I have seen many "skinny" guys throw girls to the moon. Strength is nice, however, and the more you have, the less you have to rely on power. To improve my skills, I worked on "power" upright rows and power clean. These two most simulate the throwing motion. I also worked with push presses and one arm dumbbell push presses to improve upon one handed stunts. Now that I am "retired," I don't do these moves at all. I stick to basic bodybuilding principles. Other than the exercises I listed above, I always followed general pyramiding schemes for everything else, general staying in the 5 to 10 rep range. I think there is little use in doing "power" movements for the entire body.
bb1fit Posts: 11,105 Joined: 2001/06/30	2002/12/06, 06:05 PM Bigandrew...here is a website you may want to look at. Really makes Rev8balls point well. Good info...http://www.olympus.net/personal/cablebar/5X5.htm -------------- The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary!
bigandrew Posts: 5,146 Joined: 2002/10/21	2002/12/09, 07:56 PM thanx for the help everybody