| There are statistics which show that, | | | | fortifying, putting into relief and |
| after years of training in body | | | | reshaping the muscles. |
| building, many of the persons who | | | | Another advantage of fitness is a richer |
| practiced this sport turned to fitness. | | | | and more varied area of exercises, |
| The reasons of this change are | | | | inspired from the complex training of |
| different, from the most common ones, | | | | body building but also of many other |
| like the boredom which intervenes at a | | | | sports. For example, we find in fitness |
| certain time, to health problems. | | | | plyometrics exercises used in athletics, |
| It is well-known that body building | | | | gymnastics, weightlifting, fight sports, |
| training of anaerobic type is very | | | | etc. These programs have as consequence |
| demanding. In most of the cases, the | | | | the forming of much more functional |
| aerobic programs are avoided because | | | | muscles, which can cope with demanding |
| sportsmen are afraid of losing muscular | | | | situations in real life, not only with |
| mass. | | | | posing during body building contests. |
| Another disadvantage of body building | | | | Because there is no obsession for |
| trainings is the fact that sportsmen | | | | muscles, aerobic training can be |
| have to work a lot with their chest | | | | introduced in the programs. Its |
| blocked, in apnea, because of the great | | | | advantages are: making the blood vessel |
| weights they use for increasing their | | | | walls more elastic, decreasing |
| muscles. | | | | cholesterol and making excellent |
| The respiratory blocking during the | | | | prophylaxis of cardiovascular diseases. |
| force effort is also known as the | | | | Time is another factor which must be |
| Valsalva phenomenon and it was initially | | | | considered. While in body building the |
| studied in the case of weightlifters. | | | | simplest divided program requires a |
| Applying this technique can have as | | | | minimum of four weekly trainings, in |
| consequences, in time, rising of blood | | | | fitness, where all or most of the muscle |
| pressure, low blood feedback through the | | | | groups are exercised during one |
| veins, varicous veins, etc. It is | | | | training, three non-consecutive days a |
| obvious that because of the ageing | | | | week are enough. The aerobic exercises |
| process, the blood veins become more | | | | can be done either in the free days, or |
| rigid, a process favored by the | | | | additional to the training in the gym, |
| arteriosclerosis which appears to | | | | in this case the total time of training |
| younger and younger people. The | | | | being of one hour and a half at most. |
| elasticity of the walls of these blood | | | | Passing from body building to fitness |
| vessels decreases, so while making force | | | | does not have as consequence significant |
| effort with really heavy weights, the | | | | loss of muscular mass, even if the |
| sportsmen are in danger of having a | | | | volume of the muscles is diminished. |
| stroke, because the vessels can break. | | | | Anyway, the fortifying and relief of the |
| This risk is much smaller in fitness.The | | | | muscles are not lost. This small loss is |
| weights used in this sport are small or | | | | fully compensated by the advantages of |
| medium, because the purpose of doing | | | | practicing much more complex exercises |
| this sport is not a spectacular | | | | and, why not admit, much safer for the |
| hypertrophy of the muscles, but | | | | health of the people. |