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There
are other sports in which athletes develop big muscles, but bodybuilding
it about the maximum aesthetic development of the entire physique. The
ideal bodybuilding physique would look something like this: Wide
shoulders and back tapering down to a tight waist: legs in proper
proportion to the torso. Big, shapely, and proportionate muscular
development, with full muscles tapering down to small joints. Every body
part developed, including such areas as rear delts, lower back,
abdominals, forearms, and calves. Good muscular definition and
muscle separation.
Of course,
there is no such thing as a perfect athlete in any sport. Athletes
always have strengths and weaknesses. In bodybuilding, all of us who
have competed in the sport have had weak points that we strove to
overcome by specific types of training and posing techniques. Nature
makes some physiques better than others, more ideally proportioned, more
responsive to training.
In past
years, there have been champions like Frank Zane, who had beautiful
aesthetics and was a master poser, but who many thought lacked the mass
and density they would like to see in a champion. Franco Columbu won 2
Mr. Olympia in spite of being much shorter that you'd think would be
possible in a champion competing at that level. Dorian Yates won many
Mr. Olympia, deservingly, but he has also been continually criticized by
some for being much too thick and blocky and lacking the overall
aesthetic and athletic look they feel bodybuilding ought to be about.
It may seem
strange that having too much muscle can be a drawback, but although
bodybuilding is about big muscles, it can be disadvantage to be too
mesomorphic, with thick slabs of muscle rather than aesthetic tapering
ones. Many seemingly massive bodybuilders actually have fairly small
skeletons and joints, which help to give muscles that more aesthetic
shape. Most people are surprised that, even Arnold at his heaviest
competition weight, the average individual could still nearly close his
fingers around Arnold's wrist. Lee Haney, who dominated the Mr. Olympia
in the 1980s, got into bodybuilding after twice breaking his leg playing
football. Again, he has huge, powerful muscles, but a lighter and more
aesthetic skeletal structure.
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