bodybuilder
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
bodybuilder (plural bodybuilders)
- (bodybuilding) A person who uses diet and exercise to build an aesthetically muscular physique, in order to compete in bodybuilding.
- 1964 "Muscles are his business", Ebony (Dec.) 20 (2): 148
- Physique of powerful bodybuilder (below) is like piece of sculpture. Buffs strive for the well-rounded body, disdain the professional weightlifter, who merely develops a number of very specialized muscles.
- 1974 — Charles Gaines & George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, ch 2
- Because it is necessary for a muscle to rest while it grows and because of the importance of balanced development, most competitive bodybuilders train on a split routine; they work certain parts of the body one day and rest those muscles the next while they work the others, alternating like that six days a week.
- 1991 — Samuel Wilson Fussell, Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder, ch 4
- In the competitions, bodybuilders go through "mandatories"—a set of mandatory poses—in the morning, where the judges compare the body parts of the builders.
- Synonyms: builder
- 1964 "Muscles are his business", Ebony (Dec.) 20 (2): 148
- French: culturiste
- German: Bodybuilder, Bodybuilderin
- Italian: culturista
- Portuguese: culturista
- Russian: культури́ст
- Spanish: culturista, fisicoculturista
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