| Most of the bodybuilders reading this might be | | | | encourages you to be able to lift as much weight as |
| confused by the title of this article alone! Bodybuilding | | | | possible while maintaining the smallest size you can in |
| for the most part is as different from Olympic power | | | | order for your lifts to be impressive. In other words |
| lifting as a republican is from a democrat. The point | | | | bodybuilders diet simply to cut down their body fat |
| that most bodybuilders miss is that there is actually | | | | levels in order to look better for their competitions, |
| quite a bit of commonality between the two sports. Let | | | | while Olympic lifters use dieting as a tool to remain |
| me ask you a question? When was the last time you | | | | smaller while still increasing the weight they can lift in |
| saw an Olympic lifter on your television screen who | | | | order to be in the proper weight category for their |
| wasn't packed with dense, quality muscle mass? The | | | | relative strength. What is the relevance of all this in the |
| fact of the matter is most Olympic lifters are built quite | | | | scope of bodybuilding? Simply put, if Olympic power |
| solidly and have the body awareness to take full | | | | lifters were to ignore their caloric intake and focus their |
| advantage of any lift in order to gain muscle mass. I'm | | | | diet around gaining size they would be more then |
| not going to sit here and debate whether an Olympic | | | | capable of putting on as much muscle mass as their |
| lifter could enter a body building competition (because | | | | bodybuilding counterparts. |
| most of them can't) but that doesn't mean that I don't | | | | So how do you incorporate Olympic lifts into your |
| think Olympic lifts can play a vital role in any | | | | body building routine? It's a lot simpler then it seems. |
| bodybuilder's routine. | | | | First of all there's really only two lifts you should focus |
| The first question many of you may ask is why there | | | | on incorporating. These 2 exercises are the clean and |
| aren't as many monstrous Olympic lifters as there are | | | | jerk and the snatch. Both of these techniques are |
| bodybuilders. The one thing that separates the two | | | | proven to add mass to your thighs, back, traps and |
| sports more so then anything are their weight | | | | arms! The best part of it all is you only need to add |
| categories and how these categories effect the way | | | | one of them to your upper body workout and the |
| in which the athletes approach dieting. Body building on | | | | other to your lower body routine to take full advantage |
| the one hand encourages you and rewards you for | | | | of them. Am I saying that there will eventually be an |
| packing on as much muscle as you possibly can in | | | | Olympic lifter who will become a champion bodybuilder |
| order to wow the judges with your gorilla like muscles | | | | or that the next great Olympic lifter is currently a |
| and low body fat percentages. Olympic weight lifting | | | | bodybuilder? NO! |