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Pioneers of Bodybuilding
A slideshow of pre-WW II bodybuilders set to Puccini’s “Nessun dorma.”
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What do you think about bodybuilding for girls?
I m practicing bodybuilding now and I like it more than fitness .I practiced bodybuilding for just 8 mouth and now I’m so proud with my abs and also I’m more busty. I can lift anything easily and I always wear dresses which can show my body and especially my abs. What do you reckon?
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Im bodybuilding and want my abs back but dont want to lose any more muscle.What should i do?
Ive started back bodybuilding after 6yr. Im having distress getting back my 6pak.I have lost 30lbs but alot of muscle too,i stopped my cardio and started my bulk phase.(i dnt ever want to be skinny)but want my abs back.What should i do?
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Female Body Building Diet
The main difference between a man and a woman in terms of body building is their metabolism. A woman has a harder time metabolizing stout than a man. Women also have a harder time gaining muscle than men. This is vital when choosing a female body building diet to enter into.
Another crucial difference between a man and a woman are the hormones they produce. Specifically, men produce testosterone while women cannot. Testosterone is an vital hormone used to increase the size of your muscles. This is the reason why men have larger muscles than women.
Women who undergo weight training thus cannot become bulky. What a lot of female body builders do is that they take steroids, which have synthetic testosterone, together with their female body building diet. This is what makes these women muscular.
To be able to keep yourself fit, you also have to engage in an effective female body building training program. Your training program should be suited to your body building goals.
Typically, a excellent training program combines cardiovascular exercises, such as running on a treadmill, alternating with weight training exercises. Cardiovascular exercises help you lose stout, while weight training exercises help you build muscle. Some women can also include additional stretching and flexibility exercises to their workout.
Of course, an effective body building training program has to be combined with specialized female body building diet program to produce the best results.
Just because you exercise does not mean you can eat anything you want. The amount of calories you burn depends on your metabolism. Thus, your metabolism also dictates how much you can eat. If you eat more calories than the amount your body can burn, the calories will become stored as body stout.
Since women store stout more readily than men, a general rule for women body builders is to lessen the amount of stout and cholesterol in their female body building diets. Healthier low-stout and low-cholesterol alternatives to most foods, such as milk and yogurt, are now available for you to include in your female body building diet.
By: Anthony Lee
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Vegetarian Bodybuilding – Is Successful Vegetarian Bodybuilding Possible?
Bodybuilding is a sport in which competitors show their perfectly built muscled bodies.
Bodybuilders rely on intense exercise to build muscle. During exercise the muscle fibres get slight tears which shows up as body pain the next day. Bodybuilders take plenty of rest after a small burst of intense training. During this period, the tears in the muscles get repaired. A excellent diet ensures that that the repaired muscle cells are longer and thicker thus increasing the strength and size of the muscles.
Natural bodybuilding is bodybuilding without the help of illegal stimulants, steroids or other performance enhancing drugs
Vegetarian bodybuilding is going a step further. Athletes and sportsmen all over the world are increasingly taking to vegetarianism. Carl Lewis, Martina Navratilova, Billie Jean King and Edwin Moses are prime examples of successful vegetarian sportsmen.
There are different types of vegetarian diets. Lacto vegetarian, the vegetarian and vegan diets are some of them. Vegetarianism is really a lifestyle focusing on a healthier today and a disease less tomorrow.
Nutritious diet, plotted exercise and adequate rest are the three requirements for success in bodybuilding.
Nutrition is the base for success in bodybuilding. Unfortunately, supplements have become more vital than nutrition these days. This is mainly due to the large publicity that health supplements get. All supplements are not really effective and they are sometimes addictive. Abuse of supplements and stimulants to burn stout and help workout result in terrible health later on.
It is the right mental attitude along with right nutrition and right training that really matters in bodybuilding.
A vegetarian bodybuilding diet should contain Vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates and fats in the right proportion. One common myth about vegetarianism is that vegetarians do not get enough proteins. This is not right. Soy, nuts, seeds, lentils, legumes and beans are rich sources of proteins and they also provide vitamins, minerals, fibers and antioxidants which are not found in meat. So a vegetarian diet is really healthier.
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Aerobic exercises like cardio burn off stout and anaerobic exercises like lifting weights build muscle. Scientifically plotted exercise is a must for bodybuilding and it should never be in excess. An injury due to over training must be avoided so that all the work done till then doesn’t go waste. Hence proper technique is a cardinal rule to be followed while training.
Adequate rest is the most vital part in bodybuilding. This is the time when the muscles repair themselves and the cells grow. If you do not get enough rest the muscles fibres do not get rebuilt and continuous exercise may tear the muscles causing injury.
By: John B Stevens
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Bodybuilding And The Olympics – An Ongoing Controversy
The debate on whether bodybuilding should be an Olympic sport has been raging for years amongst the bodybuilding community and those interested in the Olympics. Ardent fans argue that weightlifting has been an Olympic sport for years, so why not bodybuilding? To diehard fans, bodybuilding and the Olympics seems to be a perfect fit, and questions like “Why is bodybuilding not already an Olympic sport?” are routinely aired.
Perhaps the more telling questions to question are “Should bodybuilding be an Olympic sport?”, and “Would making bodybuilding an Olympic sport help the Olympics?”
Bodybuilding And The Olympics: Why It Is Not Already An Olympic Sport
The current Olympic program consists of 35 sports, 53 disciplines and more than 400 events, ranging from archery through to weightlifting and wrestling. The bodybuilding fan base, competitors, and sponsors are all ready and willing to take the step to Olympic level. The stumbling block is the International Olympic Committee and the OPC, who state simply that according to their criteria, bodybuilding is not a sport and there has no place in the Olympics.
This stand begs the question, “what determines a sport in the first place?”. A simple definition by the Australian Sports Foundation says that sport is “a human activity capable of achieving a result requiring physical exertion and/or physical skill, which, by its nature and organisation, is competitive and is generally accepted as being a sport.”
Arguably, bodybuilding fits within this definition, and one would reckon this should be enough for the IOC. But, the primary problem the IOC has with allowing bodybuilding into the Olympics concerns drug abuse. They claim that the widespread use of performance enhancing drugs by bodybuilders would prevent bodybuilding from complying with Olympic drug policies. There are harsh and vigilant doping rules for Olympic competitors, which would certainly exclude many professional bodybuilders.
But, the natural bodybuilding fraternity does not use performance enhancing drugs. The Olympics could uphold their drug policies, allowing only natural bodybuilders to compete at the Olympics. This also aligns with the tradition of the Olympics being a competition for sporting amateurs, not professionals.
Another reason stated by the IOC for excluding bodybuilding from the Olympics was that the judging in competitive bodybuilding was far too subjective for an Olympic judge to critique. Given the controversy surrounding the subjective judging of sports such as ice skating, diving, and gymnastics this argument hardly seems to hold water. In fact, bodybuilding would seem to be a perfect fit!
How Bodybuilding Could Help The Olympics
As competitive bodybuilding has never been a mainstream sport, including it as an Olympic Sport would allow the sport to be better known and recognized. It would also make the sport more accessible, allowing people to learn more about bodybuilding, and possibly participate themselves.
Bodybuilding would also help the Olympics by widening the scope of sports on show. By showcasing bodybuilding, the Olympics would be encouraging people of all ages to eat excellent food, work out, become fit, and look after their health. These are vital messages in a world where so many people are overweight.
A look back into history reveals that the Olympics were first introduced by the Greeks, who idolized and revered well toned, aesthetic bodies with healthy strong physiques.
Bodybuilding And The Olympics: The Main Argument Against
Besides the drug doping issue, perhaps the most prominent argument against including bodybuilding in the Olympics is the subjectivity of judges and the fact that there is often no clear winner. Even though other Olympic sports like ice skating are also in this category, the majority of Olympic sporting events feature clear winners, either by time, distance, height or lifting weight. No one can argue that judging mistakes have been made when a competitor clearly wins an event.
Although the jury is still out on bodybuilding and Olympics, it seems for the time being at least, that the Olympic Committee has no intention of including bodybuilding as an Olympic sport. Despite the fact that the bodybuilding fraternity is ready and willing to take the step to Olympic level, it looks like they will be waiting for some time yet.
By: Jean Littman
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What exercise routine is the best to build muscle for bodybuilding?
What is better to build muscle for bodybuilding, to start with the maximum weight that you can do and take off small by small? Or to start low and increase in weight? Also how many reps and sets should I do? Should I keep the reps and sets high or low?
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Is it good to dine on a protein shake when bodybuilding?
I like to work out in the evenings, before dinner, and I noticed that I am not hungry for several hours after that. Since eating is an vital part of bodybuilding, I am wondering whether having a protein shake (60g+ of protein) is a excellent thought as a meal replacement for dinner, or if this will cause catabolism (undesirable loss of muscle mass)? Thanks
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