Glad this community was created. I’ve been interested in lifting for a long time now. I’m currently doing 2x Olympic weightlifting workouts a week (working with my coach) and 2x bodybuilding/accessory workouts a week which I program myself (my coach knows I am doing this). I’m a big fan/proponent of evidence based training. I’m happy to be here and I’d be happy to help out where I can.

  • The Giant Korean@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Bodybuilding + Olympic is a great combo imho. You get explosive power and size, but even more importantly, bodybuilding provides the opportunity to work on the smaller supporting muscles, preventing injury.

    Agreed! Especially on the supporting muscles part. And especially at my age (51)I feel like the BB workouts are helping to hold everything together. It’s also a fun change of pace from solely doing strength based workouts.

    I started in CrossFit but I’ve been doing dedicated weightlifting and strength training alongside metcons almost since I started (aka “competitive programming”. There is definitely not enough time in CrossFit dedicated to the lifts.

    Also agreed. I’ve not done CrossFit, but I’ve seen several people say that they needed to do dedicated work for certain lifts if they wanted to see them improve.