Bodybuilding Competition - Practicing for Round Four


Bodybuilding Competition - Practicing for Round Four

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It's also important to realize that bodybuilders, like boxers, have to learn to pace themselves during a bodybuilding competition. You work as hard as you have to, but not harder. If the opposition grows weak, you lessen your own intensity so that you stay just ahead of him. When you see him hit a good bodybuilding pose, you hit an equal or better one. If he strikes a mediocre pose, you can warm up one of your leftovers to keep pace. You shouldn't unload all of your best bodybuilding poses in a row; save them for the end and then pull the cork, giving the judges all your favorites and leaving your foe in shambles.

The posedown helps the judges make their final decision, but it can also be the most enjoyable part of the contest for the audience. It is like watching Roman gladiators in hand-to-hand combat, only without the swords and tridents. When the top bodybuilders in the world begin to duel on a championship stage, the decibel reading in the auditorium goes right off the scale - and the more enthusiastic the cheering of the audience, the more inspired the bodybuilders become.

The important thing to remember is that improvisation requires an absolute command of each bodybuilding pose, an ability to move from one to another smoothly and gracefully. The only way to acquire this kind of skill - so that you appear just as competent and graceful during the posedown as you do performing your own routine - is by hard and constant practice.

Always remember the reason for the bodybuilding posedown - it's your chance to garner a few extra and maybe essential points. The judges are looking for the winner, the bodybuilder to whom they will each give a final placing, so it is important to act like a winner, to stand there confidently with a smile on your face, as if the whole thing was a piece of cake. The idea of bodybuilding competition, after all, is to try to win.

Tactics are all important in a bodybuilding posedown. When the six top guys are standing out there together, nobody wants to be the first to hit a pose. If a double biceps is called and you hit it first, the judges will look at you and then look at the others as they each hit the same shot. By the time the last competitor hits the pose you will be fading somewhat - you are always at your best when you hit the pose fresh - and you will suffer by comparison. 

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