The Powerbodybuilding Method
Published: Sat, 12/01/12
My old webmaster and owner of Critical Bench, Mike brings up a good
point. Bodybuilders can be strong and strength athletes can look
good. He explains how in the article below...
Stay fit,
Brian
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The Powerbodybuilding Method
by Mike Westerdal
can't be integrated within the structure of an empirical powerlifting workout
program. I firmly believe otherwise.
It has been my observation upon viewing the iron game there are two types
of people. First there are those who are pumpers and toners and secondly
there are those who concentrate on the brute power of heavy lifting alone.
That is until recently when we have a metamorphosis of a third type of hybrid
person who trains to combine the best of both worlds. It involves the nice
blood choked pump of the bodybuilder yet it's got the rugged and capable
power of a strength athlete.
When you combine these two approaches you have what is called
powerbuilding or powerbodybuilding.
(I am only seeking to introduce a renewed interest in this powerful training
component), there have been others over the span of the last 60 years.
Some of the most notable luminaries of this movement that I can think of offhand
includes and is not limited to: Malcom Brenner, Franco Columbu, Jeff Everson,
Lou Ferrigno, John Carl Grimek, Donne Hale, Mike & Ray Mentzer, Sergio
Oliva, Reg Park, Bill Pearl, Clancy ross, Bill Seno, Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Chuck Sipes and Dorian Yates, just to name a few.
If I am not mistaken POWERBODYBUILDING may have achieved its zenith
when one of the criteria's for entering an AAU sanctioned physique event required
athletic events such as Olympic & Powerlifting to help secure additional points in
the physique contest itself. Sad to say that's not the case today.
All of the guys I have just mentioned have been great assets to the physique
game because for them to get the size they possessed they had to do some
heavy, heavy lifting and if you looked at their workout programs you could
see that they combined heavy tendon and ligament building movements with
the muscle sculpting movements of the cosmetic bodybuilder.
over 700 pounds for a big triple. In tests of power, moving a huge weight in a
short movement, deadlifts, squats, supports were all easy for John Carl Grimek.
Clancy Ross was fully capable of getting 180-pound dumbbells in position self-
assisted for some heft incline work.
It's not by accident that all of the names I have mentioned have ended up at the
top in the iron game. They not only looked the part (cosmetic bodybuilder) but
they all could push the heavy iron that the general public perceived of them.
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