Fitness and Body Building

There are statistics which show that, after yearsmuscles.
of training in body building, many of the personsAnother advantage of fitness is a richer and more
who practiced this sport turned to fitness. Thevaried area of exercises, inspired from the
reasons of this change are different, from thecomplex training of body building but also of many
most common ones, like the boredom whichother 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 ofgymnastics, weightlifting, fight sports, etc. These
anaerobic type is very demanding. In most of theprograms have as consequence the forming of
cases, the aerobic programs are avoided becausemuch 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 isposing during body building contests.
the fact that sportsmen have to work a lot withBecause there is no obsession for muscles,
their chest blocked, in apnea, because of theaerobic training can be introduced in the programs.
great weights they use for increasing theirIts advantages are: making the blood vessel walls
muscles.more elastic, decreasing cholesterol and making
The respiratory blocking during the force effort isexcellent prophylaxis of cardiovascular diseases.
also known as the Valsalva phenomenon and itTime 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 asrequires 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, varicousare exercised during one training, three
veins, etc. It is obvious that because of thenon-consecutive days a week are enough. The
ageing process, the blood veins become moreaerobic exercises can be done either in the free
rigid, a process favored by the arteriosclerosisdays, 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 vesselshour and a half at most.
decreases, so while making force effort withPassing from body building to fitness does not
really heavy weights, the sportsmen are in dangerhave as consequence significant loss of muscular
of having a stroke, because the vessels canmass, even if the volume of the muscles is
break. This risk is much smaller in fitness.Thediminished. 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 acompensated by the advantages of practicing
spectacular hypertrophy of the muscles, butmuch more complex exercises and, why not
fortifying, putting into relief and reshaping theadmit, much safer for the health of the people.