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Originally Posted by Aurora  Is this now going to turn into bodybuilder bashing? Strength is better then physique training etc? LOL. oh brother. Such is the internet these days I guess. |
No, it is about how to go about building a good physique in the shortest amount of time. While there are exceptions, most good sized bodybuilders are also quite strong. You can take the long route or the short route. Most people prefer getting there in less years time not more. Before the average lifter is going to be very big he is going to first be very strong.
He can do volume work (physique training per your terms) and get bigger and SLOWLY stronger and take literally years to build a strength foundation (in reality the average wanna be bodybuilder never hits those given numbers). Anyone that wants to argue that high volume/frequency work is the fastest way to get strong does not have much experience in the training community. Please look outside the bodybuilding community and the muscle mags/genetic freaks to see how strength is built at the fastest rate.
Or he can do a more strength oriented style routine and hit those numbers relatively quickly and then start using more volume/frequency and hypertrophy specific techniques to get a lot bigger.
I train 90+ people at a time and have done so for over 10 years and have a NSCA CPT cert and a HUGE percentage of the lifters that come to me after spending years trying to get big have failed mostly (diet is usually part to blame) because they did too much volume work and never got much stronger doing it. Start them on something more strength oriented and BAM--they start growing because the missing element of their training has been added--PROGRESSION!
Strength is not the be all end all in bodybuilding, but I have yet to see a big lifter that benched 200 and squatted 275. And please don't give me an example of someone who has got big doing high volume/frequency since day one. I know plenty of these guys myself. But they are not the majority. Strength base first as this builds size also, then hypertrophy.
I am surely not saying that is the only way to do it and I am some great authority, but I sure have seen it work out real well with literally 1000's of lifters over the years.
Iron Addict