Flex UK - June 2017

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POWER


BODYBUILDING


HOW TO COMBINE BODYBUILDING
AND POWERLIFTING.

Powerlifters and bodybuilders
are like quarrelling brothers.
Some diferences they can never
fully bridge and yet, for better
or worse, they remain closely
related. They do many of the
same exercises. Bodybuilders
squat, deadlift, and bench press,
just as powerlifters may crank
out sets of triceps extensions,
barbell rows, and dumbbell lyes.
A few bodybuilders—most
especially Johnnie Jackson,
Stan Eferding, and, in his early
years, Ronnie Coleman—have
combined powerlifting and
bodybuilding to great efect.
They’ve ended the tif and used
a lower-rep, power-intense
approach to bodybuilding to
become both stronger and larger.

RAISING THE DEAD
The powerlifting and bodybuilding
connection has been long and
strong. Two-time Mr. Olympia
Franco Columbu started as a
European champion powerlifter in
the ’60s. His best reported lifts of
a 341-kg deadlift, 302-kg squat,
and 238-kg bench press are
remarkable when you consider
the 165-cm Sardinian strongman
competed at around 84 kg.
Though not quite as strong, his
best friend Arnold
Schwarzenegger also powerlifted
competitively, deadlifting 322 in
his last meet in 1968 when he was
already Mr. Universe.
Let’s zero in on the deadlift,
because unlike the squat and
the bench press, deads have
had an uneasy relationship
with bodybuilding. In fact, if
you look at the routines of most
champion bodybuilders before
the mid-1990s, deadlifts are
rarely there. To dead or not to
dead was one of the chief things
that separated powerlifters from
their bodybuilding brethren,
and it was mostly the rare hybrid
powerlifter-bodybuilder who

POWER
BODYBUILDING
BASICS


powerlifts—powerlifts—

deadlifts, and deadlifts, and
bench presses—bench presses—
in your workout in your workout
programme.programme.
Do the powerlifts
first in your leg first in your leg
(squat), back (squat), back
(deadlift), and (deadlift), and
chest (bench chest (bench
press) routines.press) routines.

powerlifts, powerlifts,

LIFT


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