| The bodybuilding general training routine seems to | | | | order to bring out their greatest attributes. On the other |
| switch once every couple of years from power | | | | hand, as the weight of the competitors has gone way |
| training to pump training. For a certain period of time, | | | | up over the last few years, primarily due to |
| you can notice that the Zane-like physiques are | | | | pharmacology advances in sports, a lot of bodybuilders |
| winning at top bodybuilding shows. This results in all the | | | | have discovered that it's important to continue training |
| people at the gym training with a lot of reps in their | | | | for power, even having achieved a pro card with what |
| sets and all kinds of isolation exercises, as they | | | | was thought of as massive enough. |
| attempt to pump their way to a symmetric and | | | | What happens as a result of the power phase is that |
| proportionate build. | | | | a good number of the top bodies in the world almost |
| After a few years go by when the public gets sick of | | | | look exactly the same. You have all of the best |
| the swimmer body look, powerful and massive | | | | trainers doing the same power exercises, going by the |
| physiques will come back on the front of bodybuilding | | | | same food and drug routines, and finally going to the |
| magazines and the stage of competition. After a while, | | | | stage all looking the same as each other. The finishing |
| you will get every kid in the United States to squat, | | | | exercises that present the great and unique areas of |
| bench, and dead lift their way through the pain barrier | | | | the body are being shoved to the side, while the guys |
| to become the most massive guy walking through the | | | | train using the same power exercises to not fall behind |
| gym. Even though the trend seems to change up once | | | | in the race to still get bigger. |
| in a while, it would seem that we are definitely currently | | | | The level of injuries is greater now than ever before. |
| engulfed in a power phase, where the more massive | | | | Even though there have been great advances in |
| bodybuilder will look better, and will most likely win. | | | | surgical technology, it seems that three out of the top |
| Professional bodybuilders have trained utilizing | | | | ten bodybuilders get injured every year bad enough to |
| compound movements in order to get a specific level | | | | where it hurts their careers. This is usually a torn lat, |
| of muscle growth, and then ride along a lot of the time | | | | pectoral, biceps, or triceps, which are muscle groups |
| they are a pro, making an attempt to keep their size, | | | | that can be weaker with the heavy training after |
| but more importantly concentrating on finishing | | | | years of training those groups to do nothing but put on |
| exercises to shape the mass they already had in | | | | mass. |