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Article #357: Fitness and Body Building

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






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