Bodybuilding to Powerlifting

[Chadd77]

Has anyone tried this? Two guys at my gym are trying to get me to train for a meet in November. I think changing my routine up would be good for me but I have always had the attitude that if I'm going to do it I have to have a chance at winning. I can't just compete for fun. Sorry, I know a lot of people that can but not me. So I think I'm going to start training for it and see how my lifts go. I would enter the raw division (no equipment except a belt). It's crazy how much weight a bench shirt and squat/dead suits can add to your lifts. I just went to a meet a couple weeks back and some of the girls (using equipment) were out benching and squatting the raw guy lifters. Now these girls didn't look like girls. :D But man that has to be hard on the ego!!

[3v1lj03]

Has anyone tried this? Two guys at my gym are trying to get me to train for a meet in November. I think changing my routine up would be good for me but I have always had the attitude that if I'm going to do it I have to have a chance at winning. I can't just compete for fun. Sorry, I know a lot of people that can but not me. So I think I'm going to start training for it and see how my lifts go. I would enter the raw division (no equipment except a belt). It's crazy how much weight a bench shirt and squat/dead suits can add to your lifts. I just went to a meet a couple weeks back and some of the girls (using equipment) were out benching and squatting the raw guy lifters. Now these girls didn't look like girls. :D But man that has to be hard on the ego!!

I have been encouraged to enter a power lifting comp also so I started looking into the combined weights that were winning in the league for lack of a better term( I don't know the jargon) and I found that I was repping as much as some of the folks that were placing. But I don't do a strictly bb workout either. The results for the local comps around here were posted on the net so I was able to do the research and it encouraged me. SO I think it could be a real ego boost. Not sure if that helps hope it does. right now I am trying to go down a weight class and maintain the strength.

[Bouncer]

a bunch or people in my gym do it. go back and forth each year. i dont think much of it personally. i think it ruins the bodybuilding side of it. guys have wider waist/obliques then they used to in the same exact condition. few of them have tears now etc..

jonny jackson would be a much better bodybuilder if he would cut the power lifting stuff.

i respect each sport but i think it should be one or the other. not flip flop back and forth.

[Chadd77]

Not really looking to turn into a powerlifter just looking to maybe compete one time. Think it would be fun to change up the training for a couple months too.

[3v1lj03]

a bunch or people in my gym do it. go back and forth each year. i dont think much of it personally. i think it ruins the bodybuilding side of it. guys have wider waist/obliques then they used to in the same exact condition. few of them have tears now etc..

jonny jackson would be a much better bodybuilder if he would cut the power lifting stuff.

i respect each sport but i think it should be one or the other. not flip flop back and forth.

Yea the strength training has really made me a lot bigger in the obliques. I like the muscle but if you don't know what it is it looks kinda strange.

[coffee-guy]

Has anyone tried this? Two guys at my gym are trying to get me to train for a meet in November. I think changing my routine up would be good for me but I have always had the attitude that if I'm going to do it I have to have a chance at winning. I can't just compete for fun. Sorry, I know a lot of people that can but not me. So I think I'm going to start training for it and see how my lifts go. I would enter the raw division (no equipment except a belt). It's crazy how much weight a bench shirt and squat/dead suits can add to your lifts. I just went to a meet a couple weeks back and some of the girls (using equipment) were out benching and squatting the raw guy lifters. Now these girls didn't look like girls. :D But man that has to be hard on the ego!!

I say that if you're going to do it then go raw - it'll keep you from getting into the area B is talking about with ruining your physique...

I've been hounded by a guy promoting a show in October to compete as well but I have some injuries I'm trying to let heal before I give it a go - like you I can't enter something without at least the *idea* of winning or at least knowing I'm entering it to win even if I don't have a chance....

I did win a bench press contest at my university a few months back though - it was a great feeling seeing that all I had to do was outlift everyone else - none of that 20 week diet stuff - I just walked in with barely even a warmup and beat the pants off everyone and was still shy of what could have been a max for me :P

[Mr I]

i think it ruins the bodybuilding side of it. guys have wider waist/obliques then they used to in the same exact condition. few of them have tears now etc..

What do you mean here?

Do you mean that with the deadlifting and deep squat the waist thickens? or just that they're out of shape?