With the new bodybuilding II template I wanted to ask what’s the difference between the hypertrophy and bodybuilding templates (and to some extent also powerbuilding templates).
There’s a bit written here - Bodybuilding II Template (New!!) - Barbell Medicine - but I am wondering - do you have a sample week for bodybuilding II?
Powerbuilding allocates a good amount of training resources to the competitive movements from powerlifting. There are also singles and some supplemental work is strength-focused. Neither BB or Hyper templates have these features.
Hypertrophy templates are full body training sessions, whereas the bodybuilding templates uses a body party split. There is more isolation work and advanced training techniques like supersets, pre exhaustion, cluster sets, partial ROM failure, etc. in the bodybuilding templates.
The first week of BB II will be available on the app soon for free.
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Thanks for the answer!
And do you expect a big difference in outcomes? I am asking because being 100% honest, I enjoy (at the moment) full body training like the hypertrophy templates and the only reason to switch to BB ones would be if I get bored or if you tell me that they are much better 
I wouldn’t expect a huge difference provided you responded reasonably well to both. Rather, incremental changes are the name of the game here. I do think the BB templates are likely to produce more muscular hypertrophy than the other templates, but provided you’re lifting weights, eating well, etc., it’s not going to be night and day different.
Thanks for the answer!
Is having access to a gym crucial for the body building template? I workout at home and just have a squat rack and a barbell, no specialty bars or equipment. I currently run the powerbuilding template, which I love so I wouldn’t have an issue running it again if it made more sense.