Powerlifting vs Bodybuilding - What's the difference?
powerlifting | bodybuilding |
(sports) A strength sport, consisting of three events: the squat, the bench press, and the deadlift. The maximum weight lifted in each event is totalled for a final score.
* 1988', Frederick C. Hatfield, "Powersource: Ties that bind", '''' ' 47 (6): 21.
A sport in which the aesthetics of muscular development is the basis for competition.
* 1974 , Charles Gaines & George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding , page 7.
(dated) Work done to construct or repair the body of an automobile.
* 2006 — (interview), Iron Man 65(5): 258
As nouns the difference between powerlifting and bodybuilding
is that powerlifting is (sports) a strength sport, consisting of three events: the squat, the bench press, and the deadlift the maximum weight lifted in each event is totalled for a final score while bodybuilding is .powerlifting
English
(wikipedia powerlifting)Noun
- For the first several years of my exclusive career in powerlifting , I couldn't bench too well.
See also
* weightliftingbodybuilding
English
(wikipedia bodybuilding)Alternative forms
* body-buildingNoun
(-)- Like those activities, bodybuilding is an obsession, a living (for a few), and a way of life for the people involved in it—a subculture, in a word, with its own values, aesthetics and vocabulary.
- "In my day, if you filled out your shirt, people assumed you played football or wrestled. The term bodybuilding had more to do with cars than lifting weights."
