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| The Art of Bodybuilding |  In recent years bodybuilding has become the art of statuesque and muscular body that can be obtained through resistance training, diet and rest. At a competitive level a panel of judges looks for the most aesthetically pleasant and balanced physique.
Participants of such competitions perform a great number of well-practiced postures that have been specially designed to display their physique as perfectly as possible. In fact, competitors’ winning or losing depends upon a posture. There are seven compulsory poses that body builders are required to perform. They are front lat-spread, front double-biceps, side chest, back lat-spread, back double biceps, side triceps, and abs and thighs.
Participants are divided into weight categories. At first, each group takes part in pre-judging; where they perform seven compulsory poses in front of seven judges and one alternate judge.
Each judge must then evaluate the bodybuilders in order. Competitors are given an arrangement according to a scoring system where the bodybuilders with the lowest score equal the lowest rank and wins. Each judge gives a score to one of the competitors they thought was the best. They then award a score of two to the competitor they saw as second best. The highest and lowest rankings for each competitor are discarded, and the five remaining rankings added together for the pre-judging "sub score", with the lowest score the best.
The top five competitors go through to the final. They perform their own personal 60-second posing routine, followed by the compulsory poses again and finally the posedown, with all five sharing the stage in a final attempt to impress.
After this, each judge again puts the participants in order, with the highest and lowest rankings discarded, and the remaining five rankings added together for other sub-score. The bodybuilder with the lowest score wins the competition.
You have to distinguish among weightlifting and bodybuilding conceptions; strength has no relevance to the second. The judges are only looking for the participant with the best general size and shape, and place special emphasis on muscularity, definition, proportion and symmetry.
Enthusiastic audience intently waits for the final posedown, with the top participants sharing the stage for the final time before the results are announced. The posedown has no meaning in the final scores. It is just a chance for the bodybuilders to perform one final scene for the often enthralled and fascinated spectators.
If you are interested in bodybuilding, you probably know such names of famous former bodybuilders as Steve Reeves, Charles Atlas, Lou Ferrigno and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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