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Why do bodybuilder and fitness models all look for fad diets and gimmicks that don’t work?

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:56:18 +0000

rather than just eating right and exercising to turn their bodies into fat burning machines, like most (95%) dieter do? Bodybuilders must be really stupid, banging their heads against the wall and never seeing lasting results. Are they blind, can’t they see that eating the right foods will always lead to a toned healthy body. All they have to do is look at the super lean bodies of 95% of dieter and follow their eating habits, problem solved.

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Contextualizing Bodybuilding in Health and Fitness

admin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:03:35 +0000

Contemporary health and fitness incorporates bodybuilding concepts. The internet domain specialization and article directories especially, have segmented bodybuilding, health and fitness in three separate categories that are mutually exclusive. Consequently, we have exclusive niches for health, for bodybuilding programs and for fitness training. We fail to conceptualize how health and fitness matters can accrue within a bodybuilding context. The consequences have been adverse and even fatal.

Introducing Bodybuilding Health

Bodybuilding health is a new concept that finds a very stratified society. We are bodybuilders and they are just fitness trainers. The feeling is mutual the other way round. The concept of marrying health and fitness into bodybuilding training is alien to us and even opposed at some quarters. Let us take a brief walk through the history of bodybuilding so that you may appreciate why bodybuilding health is the hybrid engagement that best fits your life.

Muscle Mass Tradition in Bodybuilding

Eugen Sandow, our honored father of the modern bodybuilding as we know it, started the art at around 1880’s. His sole intent was to reconfigure his physique attractively for public display. To him muscles became the ultimate achievement of bodybuilding training. That is the heritage granted us all through the decades up to the moment Dexter Jackson lifted up the 2008 Mr. Olympia trophy, and even today. Through all these years, bodybuilding was never been meant to improve one’s health and quality of life. It was all an addiction to muscle mass, muscle strength, pump and physique dimensions.

When the first-ever grand bodybuilding competition hit the America continent on January 16, 1904 at the New York’s Madison Sq. Garden, Al Treloar won because he was the most masculine and not because he was healthy or because he was leading a good life.

Joe Weider and his brother Ben came into the game to facilitate a more specialized muscle-based bodybuilding training that had nothing to offer the health and fitness of an individual. Theirs was the muscle mass business. Larry Scott, the muscle legend, Sergio Oliva and Serge Nubret were the stars of the 60’s muscle mass decade.

The Total Sacrifice of Health and Physical Fitness

Every bodybuilder worth his or her salt loves the three decades spanning from 1960 to 1990. These were the decades in which bodybuilding became the most noble of all training regimens ever known to man. It gained prestige and prominence across the globe.

Just ask the IFBB. They will tell you a tale of smudging success and infinite returns. But what do you know? These were the decades in which anabolic steroids came into the scene and ruled bodybuilding training. Anabolic steroids became a staple diet not only in bodybuilding but also in others sports. Nevertheless, it was in bodybuilding that it lived as a legit diet until the governments came to the rescue with policy enactments.

We who are conversant with the bodybuilding lore know that these decades saw the rise of unbelievable mass monsters. Name the greatest among them, the indomitable Arnold Schwarzenegger or the peers along him the likes of Lou Ferrigno, Franco Columbu, Dorian Yates and Lee Haney. Do not forget the building of a man, legendary Ronnie Coleman or Paul DeMayo for that matter. These noble men defied all norms, crafted history, set trends, dominated the globe and touched the zenith of bodybuilding glory. However, while looking like gods from the outside, most of these legends were living on anabolics, the amount that would fell an elephant.

Bodybuilding Health Contextualized

The debate here will not be whether they were right or wrong. It is not even, whether anabolic steroids are good or bad. It is about what medical research has authenticated. Bodybuilding on anabolic steroids is buying a ticket to the grave. It is a total disregard of health. The sad thing is that even if anabolic steroids are banned and regulated today, they are the chief aides in modern bodybuilding even now. A cursed inheritance it is, accrued from ages when health and fitness were separated from bodybuilding training.

Every time an individual pursues a bodybuilding program without the sole intent of developing a supremely healthy and fit physique, he or she falls prey to anabolic steroids soon or later, or at least to the abuse of bodybuilding supplements. At the end, a bodybuilding program becomes the path to cancer, to kidney failure, to hypertension, to heart problems, to dysfunctional sexual organs, to skin complications and to a myriad of health complications.

Conclusion

That is why modern bodybuilding emphasizes the hybrid of bodybuilding training with contemporary health and fitness practices. We have learnt from the mistakes of the past and we are determined not to make them again. Our health depends on it, even as we pump iron. To any natural bodybuilding fan, bodybuilding health is the new dimension that marries bodybuilding programs to health and fitness.

Machahi John Joel is a bodybuilder who passionately writes on the bodybuilding health concept, trying to establish the crucial link existing between bodybuilding, health and fitness. The author can be reached at jojoma@digitalhealthandfitness.com. Alternatively, please log on to http://www.digitalhealthandfitness.com where we are intent on providing you with the modern bodybuilding resources that will help you generate supreme physique definition, muscle mass and muscle strength within the essential limits of contemporary health and fitness.

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Hanging Leg Raise ABDOMINAL/OBLIQUE/BACK Exercise Bodybuilding Workout HOW-TO Fitness Clip Example

admin — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:03:24 +0000

Perform the ab-crushing, oblique-mashing, back and peck taunting ‘HANGING LEG RAISE’ workout for 8 reps in two sets. If you’re still breathing, attempt to bang out one last set and pump ’til failure! How do you think it works when you wish for muscle mass on your body? Sweat…your own, daily. Once you get used to banging out those powerful hanging leg raises in 3 sets or 2 (for massives) then try adding some weight to your body to increase the difficulty level!* Do YOU WANT the latest FitHack’d exclusive vids, health hacks, diet plans & tips, sporting news & free vodka on Saturday’s?! Sure you do, so get it hourly in updated @ our official site – www.fitHACKER.com

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Natural Fitness

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Natural Bodybuilding and Fitness Magazine, May 1996, Vol. 9 No. 2

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The Interconnection Between Bodybuilding And Fitness

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Enthusiasts of bodybuilding know of the hard work that is required to achieve and maintain the sculpted bodies for which they aspire. A regimented diet is certainly a large component of bodybuilding – cutting fat and focusing on lean protein to feed the muscles of the body and maximize nutrition. But when it comes to achieving the ideal look that most bodybuilders are after, the connection between bodybuilding and fitness is undeniable.

Bodybuilding and fitness are so inseparable because the building of muscle mass is so largely dependent upon intense and committed workouts. Bodybuilders will tell you of the hours upon hours that they dedicate to the gym – doing cardiovascular work, stretching, and engaging in significant weight training. For those in competition, this training is imperative to success. Any competitor will tell you that bodybuilding and fitness go hand in hand; without one there is no other.

For many embarking upon bodybuilding and fitness, there must be small steps taken in order to work up to a full exercise regime. To achieve maximum fitness it is imperative to combine cardiovascular work with core training and weight training. Cardiovascular work may include everything from running and walking to dancing and kickboxing. To follow, intensive core training such as Pilates or yoga will work to strengthen abdominal muscles, improve flexibility, and keep muscles limber.

But when it comes to bodybuilding and fitness, nothing does more to build and maintain muscle mass then weight training. Whether using weight training machines or free weights, lifting weights – when done correctly – will bolster and sculpt muscle mass throughout the body. Bodybuilders rely on weight training to achieve their fitness goals. However, it is most important that if you don’t have experience with weight training that you have professional instruction in order to learn the proper techniques. Weights, when lifted incorrectly, will only serve to injure rather than improve muscles.

For those looking to improve their bodies and even compete in bodybuilding competitions, it is imperative for them to incorporate a consistent regime of diet and exercise into their lives. For this reason, bodybuilding and fitness will continue to be an inseparable and lasting combination.

For easy to understand, in depth information about bodybuilding and fitness visit our ezGuide 2 Bodybuilding.

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Female BodyBuilding Fitness Secrets

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Natural Bodybuilding and Fitness Magazine, February 1995, Vol. 8 No. 1, 6th Anniversary Issue!

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