Article - Should Athletes Train Like Bodybuilders

[Bruise Brubaker]

http://www.mercola.com/2004/feb/18/athlete_training.htm

Basically, the author says to eat whole food and to train with compounds movements and with free weights. Beware of figure 3.

[MixmasterNash]

Sandow rules, except for the whole fig leaf thing. But it was a crazy time, I tells ya!

Of course athletes should NOT train like bodybuilders.

[d'Anconia]

Beware of figure 3.

LOL WTF was up with that?

I'll tell you this much, I don't expect someone running a mile or swimming over 1000M to be doing the same rep range as a bodybuilder...

[FortifiedIron]

Offensive Lineman should train like an Offensive Lineman.

Baseball players should train like a baseball player.

Hockey player should train like a hockey player.

Powerlifter should train like a powerlifter.

Bodybuilders should train like a fitness model.

Kc

[Kayo]

yeah thats true there are way to many bodybuilders who claim their physicaly fit and run like a 7 minute Kilometer

[spencerjrus]

Whats the big deal? The imporant points of that article are stressed by the regulars on this forum every day.

-Healthy foods.
-Compound movements.
-Not relying on supplements to make up for lack of diet/training/rest.

The only difference between the way an educated WBBer trains and a bodybuilder from the 50's is that we are scientific in the way we approach training as opposed to mythological.

[FortifiedIron]

However now days science is telling us that what they did back in the 50s was better.

Kc

[Canadian Crippler]

However now days broken records in basically every single sport and bodybuilders carrying 50lbs more mass tell us what they did back in the 50s was not better.

[Manveet]

However now days broken records in basically every single sport and bodybuilders carrying 50lbs more mass tell us what they did back in the 50s was not better.

Because drugs rule.

[FortifiedIron]

However now days broken records in basically every single sport and bodybuilders carrying 50lbs more mass tell us what they did back in the 50s was not better.

Two reasons:

1. Better drugs.
2. We are build to get better. Just like in 2050 they will say the same about us from 2000.

In the 50's training with high frequency and heavy compound movements where common in every gym up to the early 70's. From the mid 70's to the late 90's it was not. Nothing from this era was impressive.. now days similar trianing styles that was done back in the 50's are being done now. Which is high frequency training and heavy compound movements done every week.

Kc

[MixmasterNash]

I would say that the two main reasons why top modern athletes perform better are nutrition and a much larger pool of participants in athletics.

[Canadian Crippler]

Good points all around. However doesn't the fact they we now have a greater understanding of nutrition and better drugs mean that training results from the past to present are incomparable?

I'd also like to know what "modern style of training" you are referring to. As far as I know compounds and olympic lifts seem to be the "in" thing for most professional athletes.

[BigRic]

From a div. 1 athletic point, we have 6 weeks right now at the end of the season where we're "Body Building" the point is to put on our shield of armour, and gain bulk in the way of LBM.