Most athletes, amateur or professional at any sport it is, in its regular system of training have included work with weight lifting. Marathons use weight to reinforce leg muscles, tennis players upper part of the body and hands and feet. Even they exercise with weights, but they don’t look to brawny. Thus neither will you look like bodybuilder, if you don’t apply bodybuilding training, but you should train according to the program for shaping the body.

Here are a few different programs that in its system of training use machines and weights:

Weightlifting is a competitive sport that includes development of power and explosives. There are two movements that are performed - one is hitch jerk, and the second is the hitch. Weight lifters that are preparing to compete the championship, they exercise for many years and have a high level of muscle strength.

Powerlifting, is similar as a weight lifting and it includes three movements or boot: bench press, squats and dead lift ( "dead pull"). Weight lifters and powerlifters usually have a genetic qualities for these sports, they lift heavy weights, with a small number of repetitions and long periods of rest between series.

Bodybuilding is a competitive sport in which size and muscle symmetry is evaluate by judges. Power is not the first, though many bodybuilders are extremely strong. Bodybuilders program contains a large number of exercises, because it handles a large number of muscle groups. Due to the large number of exercises that can handle the training is a great need of perseverance, stamina and motivation to become a world-recognized competitions bodybuilder. Successful bodybuilders have small percentage of fat subcutaneous tissue, high levels of tolerance of intensity training looking through longer period of time. Inevitable and a very important factor for success in competitions and rigorous regime of diet and combined in determining the increase in load based on weight, number of repetitions and the number of series, with a short vacations between the series.

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