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