Olympics Demonstrate Muscle Building Not Always Priority
If you weren’t glued to your television for 4 hours every night during the 17 days that made up this year’s Olympics, shame on you! What an incredible display of athleticism. How much more can be said about Phelp’s record breaking performances and Bolt’s complete dominance of the track? However, that’s not what this post deals with.
If you’re an avid weight trainer that engages in intense workouts aimed at muscle building and quality weight gain, then you’re probably one of those that when watching a sport, almost any one for that matter, not only are you appreciating the game itself, but also the physiques. Well, one thing that could be picked up on by closely watching the Olympics is that muscle building is not the priority in many sports. And that’s a huge tell tale sign. I say this because there are many workout routines out there, whether on internet sites or bodybuilding magazines, that are based around a lot of the movements, strategies, and / or techniques that are the same or very similar to many Olympic sports.
The problem with that is if you look at a lot of these world class athletes, the top of the line, mind you, and although they are the best of the best in that particular sport, they aren’t necessarily the most muscularly developed. That’s because working out for performance is not the same as working for straight up hypertrophy, aka muscle building / weight gain.