Q&A: How does a bodybuilder’s muscles differ from a gymnast’s?
Saturday, May 7th, 2011 at
1:39 pm
Question by joshuanotkevin: How does a bodybuilder’s muscles differ from a gymnast’s?
Why can a bodybuilder be the same size as a gymnast, ( a little bigger even), yet be unable to do the moves they are able to accomplish, like on the still rings for example.
How does their method of building their muscles differ?
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Answer by mrzwink
body building shortens your muscles, gymnists do excercises to longen theyr miscles. long muscles make you limber, short musles make you stiff.
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Bodybuilders excercise with weight machines and not free weights. Free weights do not isolate the muscles and that resembles an athletic movement.
An athlete trains for function while a bodybuilder trains for looks.
There are large athletes who are strong but this isn’t always the case.
Shaun White is 5 feet 8 and weighs 139 pounds and won a gold medal in snowboarding, so don’t think because a guy is small he can’t play sports.
bodybuilders, by the word itself, build muscle mass. Their usual aim is to get big and not to be sports specific. Gymnasts on the other hand need strength and flexibility. They also need endurance.
One thing that gymnasts have that bodybuilders don’t usually have although both require muscle strength is muscle memory or schema that makes movement easier to execute since their physical activity is more on skill rather than only focusing on muscle building.
body builders’ muscles are shorter. They are trained to look really huge. Gymnasts on the other hand are trained to function.
Muscles adapt to do the task required of them. Depending on how hard you push the muscle – and what you’re asking it to do, it may grow in the process. A sprinter may have very muscular legs and be very fast, but he may not be able to squat the most weight at the gym, because he hasn’t trained to do that. It’s the same thing with bodybuilding and gymnastics. Gymnastic moves require strength and coordination among specific muscles that can only be aquired by practicing those moves. Weight training may help a gymnast, but it’s no substitute for performing the specific movements required of the sport. A gymnast may also emphasize building just the muscles that he uses in his routine – building other muscles may just add weight in ways that will make it tougher to perform the moves he needs to make. On the other hand, and bodybuilder wants to build his entire body to make each muscle strong and keep everything in proportion. I’m not sure how many bodybuilders have become gymnasts, but many gymnasts have gone on to be great bodybuilders.