Aren't we all talking about the same thing here...

KrystalSlim
KrystalSlim Posts: 48 Member
edited December 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
"Working on muscle building" when we talk about...

weightlifting

circuit training

strength training

bodyweight training (is that considered "weightlifting" but with your body's weight instead of weights?)


I'm a bit loss with all these different terminologies....

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  • KrystalSlim
    KrystalSlim Posts: 48 Member
    anyone?
  • stephanie1133
    stephanie1133 Posts: 211
    For the most part, I'd say yes, we are talking about very similar things.
  • KrystalSlim
    KrystalSlim Posts: 48 Member
    Alright! And so bodyweight training (done in circuits but with zero cardio involved) can be considered as weightlifting?
  • stephanie1133
    stephanie1133 Posts: 211
    I'd say so. You are, in fact, lifting your own weight doing body weight training.
  • JayByrd107
    JayByrd107 Posts: 282 Member
    Weightlifting and bodyweight training both build muscle, so they satisfy your original questions, but just because B=A and C=A does not mean C=B. "Weightlifting" is generally understood to mean that you are lifting weights that are discrete from your body, intended for the purpose of developing muscle. Bodyweight training does not fit this criteria.
  • jsteffen80
    jsteffen80 Posts: 136
    I would say that there are two different things here.

    'Strength Training' is training to gain strength. Strength is simply the body applying power to a resistance.

    You can gain strength using the other methods, but they are limited by the resistance. There is a certain point where you can't get any stronger using your own body weight. You can become more 'conditioned' and have the ability to move that weight more times successively, but that isn't strength.

    Muscle building and strength training go hand in hand... It's a little more complicated than that, but you can generally hold that to be true.

    weightlifting - this is ambiguous. you can lift weight for strength or conditioning, but I've known people that don't accomplish EITHER.

    circuit training - to a point this is strength building, but past that point it is conditioning unless you are continually increasing the weight.

    strength training - self-explanatory.

    bodyweight training - strength building is limited by resistance. if you're using your body weight as resistance, and your body weight is going down, you're definitely not going to be building any strength
  • meshashesha2012
    meshashesha2012 Posts: 8,329 Member
    they arent really the same things all the time, but all of them can be considered resistance training.

    the main thing with strength training is that it's done to increase your strength. to me, that ends up meaning that you're working with a resistance that at least 70% of your maximum 1 rep weight.

    circuit training is done more for metabolic conditioning, so the idea is to keep the weights light enough that you can do the moves quickly and with higher reps but still a bit challenging. also since there's little to no rest this moves circuit training away from strength training since you absolutely need rest periods in strength training.

    weightlifting is just a general term that means your using additional stuff like dumbbells, boby bars, resistance bands, etc

    body weight : is also resistance training but unlike the others, you arent adding additional weight so after awhile your progress might stall, especially if you're interested in developing strength over your bodyweight
  • KrystalSlim
    KrystalSlim Posts: 48 Member
    Thant's interesting... And so the difference seems to be mainly in the conditioning vs the strength aspect...

    Thank you for the detailed answers!
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