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.
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January 3rd, 2010 at 12:12 pm
January 3rd, 2010 at 1:26 pm
There is no specific set of times you take a laxative to be considered abuse. Just like how there's no official number of calories you have to eat to be considered anorexic or number of times you throw up to be considered bulimic.
I could be considered to abuse laxatives because I take them at least once a month, but because I have to (if you know what I mean), rather than using them as a form of weight loss. Since I was advised by my doctor it's okay to use them, it shouldn't be considered abuse.
My assumption would be you take them everyday or at least a few times per week not on a doctor's orders and purposely doing so to lose weight.
January 3rd, 2010 at 1:53 pm
January 3rd, 2010 at 6:11 pm
You make an excellent point. Many many people are willing to do extremely unhealthy things to be thin. (read the question above yours in D&F to see a good example)
Ultimately, education is going to be the answer but in a much wider spread than people realize. Every major woman's magizine has a weight lose or exercise related article each month, but many of them don't give very accurate information or give conflicting information. That needs to stop before the problem can be fixed. A magizine or the internet is no substitute for real professional advice (as I'm sure you know)
I hate to jump on this bandwagon but people need to know and accept that being thin and being healthy aren't the same thing. And just because a woman is a size ten doesn't mean she's overweight. Young kids are so impressionable and the messages they are bombarded with each day scares me. There are so many body types, not every woman is going to be pencil thin, not every woman will have J. Lo curves.
The way people think about body type and health has to change for any real reversal of this disgusting "Thin at all costs" mind set.
January 4th, 2010 at 9:30 am
January 4th, 2010 at 12:54 pm
That is a tough one! If you add any kind of exercise, you are going to burn more calories, so you'll need to eat more! Add carbs (to fuel your body during exercise so you aren't immediately burning fat), and protein (which is calorie dense and will help you maintain your muscle). Just adding a big glass of milk after exercise can help you with this.
To get your heart and lungs in shape, you don't need to do a ton of exercise. Try 20-30 minutes 2-3 times a week. If that doesn't feel like enough, add some walking (on hills, on a treadmill w/ an incline, or with lunges in between).
A lot of people don't realize that when you start losing weight — a lot of what you lose is muscle (after a few initial pounds of water weight, which is no big deal). Muscle loss happens even if you're losing that weight by exercising. So make SURE you add strength training to maintain your muscle. (It will be a lot harder to get back than fat). You can do this without equipment by googling some body weight and core exercises like squats, lunges, pushups, planks, and crunches. (You can even do JUST these kinds of strength exercises, with some jumping jacks, jogging in place, or jumping rope in between sets, and some stretches at the end, and you'll improve your fitness in a really well rounded way. Squats and other leg exercise do a surprisingly great job of getting your heart rate up.).
Running and jogging do create a very high calorie burn, and also tend to cause you to lose muscle if you do a lot, but they are a great/fast way to get in shape. You can also try anaerobic exercises (very intense exercises you can't maintain for very long, like jump roping or short sprints). These do burn a lot of calories and rev your metabolism (eat!!), but they don't break down fat the same way other exercises do (like the elliptical, jogging). And they WORK your heart and lungs for great fitness and stamina in a faster time.
Good luck!
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January 6th, 2010 at 1:02 am
The first thing I think of is a workout partner. If somebody else is expecting you to work out with them, it makes it harder to flake out on your workout.
Also… try doing some classes… I find they are more fun and easier to talk myself into on days I don't feel like going. Most gyms will have a barbell class of some kind.
If you don't have a goal dress or bikini… make a different kind of goal. Track your progress and set some kind of goal… for instance doing 10 "boy" push-ups… or 100 crunches in 2 minutes… or 5 real over-hand pull-ups, etc. Something that you cannot currently do that is attainable for you in a matter of 6-8 weeks.
Make a promise to yourself for when you reach that goal. Buy a new piece of jewelry… get a pedicure… get a massage… eat out at your favorite restaurant, etc.
Hope this helps! Good luck