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Weightlifting vs. Bodybuilding — What's the Difference?

Weightlifting vs. Bodybuilding — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Weightlifting and Bodybuilding

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Weightlifting

The lifting of heavy weights in a prescribed manner as an exercise or in athletic competition.

Bodybuilding

Bodybuilding is the use of progressive resistance exercise to control and develop one's muscles (muscle building) by muscle hypertrophy for aesthetic purposes. It is distinct from similar activities such as powerlifting because it focuses on physical appearance instead of strength.

Weightlifting

A form of exercise in which weights are lifted.

Bodybuilding

The process of developing the musculature of the body through specific types of diet and physical exercise, such as weightlifting, especially for competitive exhibition.

Weightlifting

(sports) A sport in which competitors lift heavy weights in two events: the snatch and the clean and jerk.
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Bodybuilding

A sport in which the aesthetics of muscular development is the basis for competition.

Weightlifting

Exercise by lifting weights

Bodybuilding

(dated) Work done to construct or repair the body of an automobile.

Bodybuilding

Exercise that builds muscles through tension.

Bodybuilding

Exercise that builds muscles through tension

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