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Post by fastfor40 on Jul 29, 2019 16:36:32 GMT
If you had your choice, and were guaranteed success in achieving that goal, would you want to have great strength, or a great physique. Superb health would accompany both.
One, and only one choice.
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Post by Michael on Jul 29, 2019 17:00:58 GMT
I would say great strength. If You eat clean and healthy a good physique will come out of it.
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Post by pierinifitness on Jul 29, 2019 17:04:09 GMT
No brainer answer, strength.
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Post by fastfor40 on Jul 29, 2019 17:14:48 GMT
At the gym where I do most of my training, I posed that question in its May newsletter at the behest of the owner, a former state wrestling champ and bodybuilder, and now a competing Crossfitter.
He said he was surprised at the number of responses, and the eventual overwhelming choice.
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Post by MBS on Jul 29, 2019 18:01:56 GMT
Strength.
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Post by Bob50 on Jul 29, 2019 18:50:41 GMT
If you had your choice, and were guaranteed success in achieving that goal, would you want to have great strength, or a great physique. Superb health would accompany both. One, and only one choice. Superb health would accompany both (?)
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Post by fastfor40 on Jul 29, 2019 19:23:29 GMT
By that I meant that by default, good health would be accompany either choice...I'm on the strength side...couldn't care less how I look, within reason...
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Post by gruntbrain on Jul 29, 2019 20:09:59 GMT
Strength : strength measures are objective and the feedback likely is an incentive to stay in the training game . When strength plateaus, focus on other lifts to measure .
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Jul 29, 2019 20:28:00 GMT
The question is purely hypothetical because none of those things are mutually exclusive. Pursuing either strength building or bodybuilding as a goal will inexorably result in growth in both areas.
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Post by fastfor40 on Jul 29, 2019 20:57:13 GMT
Purely hypothetical, and by some of the answers given, over-analyzed.
The survey in the newsletter asked the participants to give their sex and age group - divided by decades, not a scientific survey, but interesting in that almost twice as many females participated, and across the board the majority said they wanted to get stronger...on the male side it was almost equally divided, but the physique-guys edged out the strength pursuers, and the gap widened as they got older...
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Post by stuke on Jul 29, 2019 21:20:19 GMT
I don't think I could handle looking great but being all show with no real strength in this hypothetical choice. Strength for me then because I am not hung up on hoe I appear to others.
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Post by gruntbrain on Jul 29, 2019 22:40:14 GMT
I suspect there's a significant number of folks who train for strength don't achieve very noticeable physique enhancement . Power and Oly lifters in the lower weight classes provide such examples .
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Jul 30, 2019 0:03:40 GMT
I wonder how many people said they'd rather train for strength and not care about their appearance so as to not appear narcissistic.
Many years ago I was a very skinny young man and I started working out to build the kind of physique I wanted. 12 straight years of the standard 3-set, 10-rep routine, adding weight to my exercises as I was able to, resulted in a significant increase in strength. It was an inexorable by-product of my quest to build a great physique. But strength wasn't, and still isn't, my ultimate goal. Strength is such a relative thing. I could have started out with a goal to build enormous strength, but even if I had busted my hoo-hoos all those years, there would've still been millions who were a lot stronger than I'd ever be, and I certainly would have never been a match for those strongmen contestants. I like what I ultimately accomplished and I'm content to just be stronger than the average bear.
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Post by chanduthemagician on Jul 30, 2019 1:38:51 GMT
I'll take the body. The caveat being, to me a great physique looks nothing like today's body builders. I'd look like Woody Strode.
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Post by mr potatohead on Jul 30, 2019 1:43:49 GMT
...on the male side it was almost equally divided, but the physique-guys edged out the strength pursuers, and the gap widened as they got older... Perhaps some of the guys became more honest with themselves as they aged and didn't feel the need to act like an altruistic strength badass anymore?
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