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This is dedicated to explain fitness related terms that are often misunderstood and misused. When discussing fitness related topics, or any topic for that matter, it is important for everyone to use the same terminology. Otherwise, using terms in different ways can easily lead to a miscommunication or misinterpretation of the information, various terms that have specific meanings in the health in fitness, but are often misused in all forms of media, even by people who call themselves experts in the field.

The 4 terms covered today all have something to do with lifting weights. People often think some of these terms are the same, but they each have specific meanings and they should not be used interchangeably.

1. Resistance Training – This is a very general term that covers a wide variety of activities. Resistance training includes any type of exercise where your muscles have to overcome a resistance, regardless of the type of resistance used. Naturally, any activity that involves lifting traditional weights is a form of resistance training, because the weights are the resistance, but weights are far from the only type of resistance. Resistance can also come in the form of bands/cables, medicine balls, etc. Even body weight exercises such as push-ups or squats are forms of resistance training, because in those exercises certain muscles have to overcome the weight of your body and your body acts as the resistance. Technically, the term resistance training could be used to describe virtually any type of exercise, but most people do not classify sporting activities as resistance training, unless lifting weights is a primary component of the sport. To simplify things, other than traditional cardio exercises such as treadmill walking, virtually every exercise performed in a gym type setting is considered resistance training.

2. Weightlifting – This is probably the term that causes the most confusion, even though it appears to be fairly self-explanatory. The issue is that lifting weights is not the same as weightlifting. Lifting weights does refer to any exercise that uses weights (meaning metal weights or weight machines, usually not other forms of resistance). Weightlifting, on the other hand, refers to a particular sport that involves the competitive performance of two exercises: the clean and jerk (one exercise) and the snatch. People often incorrectly refer to weightlifting as Olympic lifting, but Olympic lifting actually only refers to weightlifting during the Olympics. In other words, you wouldn’t say that you were going outside to do some Olympic running or going to the community pool for some Olympic swimming, but that is exactly what people are doing when they refer to weightlifting as Olympic lifting. Additionally someone should only be called a weightlifter when they participate in the sport of weightlifting. For instance, I have been lifting weights pretty much year-round for over 19 years and have included the weightlifting exercises in some of my routines, but I would never call myself a weightlifter. There are a lot of people who lift weights, but not many people who are actually weightlifters.

3. Powerlifting – This term is similar to weightlifting in the sense that it refers to a particular sport that involves lifting weights, but people do not misuse this term nearly as much as they do the term weightlifting. However, there are still a large number of people who do not know what powerlifting actually is. Powerlifting is a competition where a person performs 3 different exercises: bench press, squat, and deadlift. As with weightlifting, the goal is to perform only 1 rep of each exercise with as much weight as possible. Competitors are given multiple attempts at each exercise and the highest weight successfully completed for each exercise is added together to produce the total score. There are also multiple weight classes, as there are in boxing, so athletes of different weights and sizes can all compete with a chance of winning. Also, the term powerlifter only applies to someone who competes in the sport of powerlifting.

4. Bodybuilding – Again, this is a term that refers to a particular sport, but bodybuilding it is different from weightlifting and powerlifting, because lifting weights is not the focus of a bodybuilding competition. Bodybuilding does have different classes of competitors just like weightlifting and powerlifting, but it is not about the act of performing exercises as it is with the other sports. Instead, competitors are judged on the way their body looks. Bodybuilders have to perform a variety of different poses to show off their body and they are judged on things like the size, definition (how much their muscles stand out / having minimal fat), and symmetry (proportion) of their muscles. People who are bodybuilders exercise specifically to improve the way their body looks, so they can earn higher scores in competition. Consequently, bodybuilders are more concerned about how their body looks than how it actually functions. This is one of the reasons why training for bodybuilding is very different from training to improve athletic performance or general health.

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