Weightlifter vs Bodybuilder - What's the difference?
weightlifter | bodybuilder |
(weightlifting) A person who competes for maximum weight lifted in a series of specific lifts.
A person who uses weights to train the muscles of the body, usually for strength or for improved performance in a sport.
(bodybuilding): A person who uses diet and exercise to build an aesthetically muscular physique, in order to compete in bodybuilding.
* 1964 "Muscles are his business", Ebony ? (Dec.) 20 (2): 148
* 1974 — Charles Gaines & George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding , ch 2
* 1991 — Samuel Wilson Fussell, Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder , ch 4
As nouns the difference between weightlifter and bodybuilder
is that weightlifter is a person who competes for maximum weight lifted in a series of specific lifts while bodybuilder is : A person who uses diet and exercise to build an aesthetically muscular physique, in order to compete in bodybuilding.weightlifter
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* weight lifterNoun
(en noun)bodybuilder
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- Physique of powerful bodybuilder (below) is like piece of sculpture. Buffs strive for the well-rounded body, disdain the professional weightlifter, who merely develops a number of very specialized muscles.
- Because it is necessary for a muscle to rest while it grows and because of the importance of balanced development, most competitive bodybuilders train on a split routine; they work certain parts of the body one day and rest those muscles the next while they work the others, alternating like that six days a week.
- In the competitions, bodybuilders go through "mandatories"—a set of mandatory poses—in the morning, where the judges compare the body parts of the builders.