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Fitness and Body Building

There are statistics which show that,fortifying, putting into relief and
after years of training in bodyreshaping the muscles.
building, many of the persons whoAnother advantage of fitness is a richer
practiced this sport turned to fitness.and more varied area of exercises,
The reasons of this change areinspired from the complex training of
different, from the most common ones,body building but also of many other
like the boredom which intervenes at asports. For example, we find in fitness
certain time, to health problems.plyometrics exercises used in athletics,
It is well-known that body buildinggymnastics, weightlifting, fight sports,
training of anaerobic type is veryetc. These programs have as consequence
demanding. In most of the cases, thethe forming of much more functional
aerobic programs are avoided becausemuscles, which can cope with demanding
sportsmen are afraid of losing muscularsituations in real life, not only with
mass.posing during body building contests.
Another disadvantage of body buildingBecause there is no obsession for
trainings is the fact that sportsmenmuscles, aerobic training can be
have to work a lot with their chestintroduced in the programs. Its
blocked, in apnea, because of the greatadvantages are: making the blood vessel
weights they use for increasing theirwalls more elastic, decreasing
muscles.cholesterol and making excellent
The respiratory blocking during theprophylaxis of cardiovascular diseases.
force effort is also known as theTime is another factor which must be
Valsalva phenomenon and it was initiallyconsidered. While in body building the
studied in the case of weightlifters.simplest divided program requires a
Applying this technique can have asminimum of four weekly trainings, in
consequences, in time, rising of bloodfitness, where all or most of the muscle
pressure, low blood feedback through thegroups are exercised during one
veins, varicous veins, etc. It istraining, three non-consecutive days a
obvious that because of the ageingweek are enough. The aerobic exercises
process, the blood veins become morecan be done either in the free days, or
rigid, a process favored by theadditional to the training in the gym,
arteriosclerosis which appears toin this case the total time of training
younger and younger people. Thebeing of one hour and a half at most.
elasticity of the walls of these bloodPassing from body building to fitness
vessels decreases, so while making forcedoes not have as consequence significant
effort with really heavy weights, theloss of muscular mass, even if the
sportsmen are in danger of having avolume 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.Themuscles are not lost. This small loss is
weights used in this sport are small orfully compensated by the advantages of
medium, because the purpose of doingpracticing much more complex exercises
this sport is not a spectacularand, why not admit, much safer for the
hypertrophy of the muscles, buthealth of the people.



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