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