Health And Fitness Programs
Contextualizing Bodybuilding in Health and Fitness
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.
About the Author
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.
Intro to SparkPeople.com: FREE Diet and Fitness Program
|
|
AB Roller Plus: Rock ‘n Roll Ab Workout (Tape only, machine is not included) $17.99 Venture Aerobic Productions, 1995. This 15 minute power program for ABDOMINALS hits the spot. For your best body ever, you need more than just hype. You need the BEST hardware and the right software. That’s why fitness pro, Brenda Dykgraal offers some POWER programming to go along with the AB roller Plus. This program includes: 5 minute Beginner Ab workout; 6 minute ADVANCED Ab workout and TWO min… |
|
|
Raquel: Total Beauty and Fitness [VHS] $19.99 An easy-to-follow health and exercise program, based on the principles of hatha-yoga rather than aerobics, for people of all ages is accompanied by separate sections on nutrition and diet, fashion, and make-up…. |
|
|
John Carleo’s 6 to 8 Minute Workout for Total Gym $8.82 instructional video for the tot al gym… |
|
|
P90X: Tony Horton’s 90-Day Extreme Home Fitness Workout DVD Program $139.80 P90X is a revolutionary system of 12 highly intense workouts, designed to transform your body. * Chest and Back Extra DVD for a quick overview of the complete P90X Extreme Home Fitness training system is includ… |
|
|
The Perfect Pregnancy Workout vol. 1 $17.99 You’ve got nine months to prepare for the challenge of your life. Use every minute! The Perfect Pregnancy Workout will: -improve your mood -reduce lower back pain -develop mental discipline to control labor pain -tone your lower body to handle the demands of labor and birth -make it easier to lose weight after your baby is born -strengthen your upper body to lift and hold your baby -help eliminate… |
|
|
Stronger Seniors® Chair Exercise Program- 2 disc Chair Exercise Program- Stretching, Aerobics, Strength Training, and Balance. Improve flexibility, muscle and bone strength, circulation, heart health, and stability. Developed by Anne Pringle Burnell $17.83 The Stronger Seniors Workout Program is designed by Certified Fitness Instructor Anne Pringle Burnell to help seniors develop strength and to enhance the ability to function in daily life. These two fitness DVDs work together to improve your ability to be stable and balanced, to stay mobile, to go up and down stairs, to squat and pick something up, and to play with your grandchildren!… |
|
|
Nickelodeon Fit $6.51 Get fit with your friendsProduct InformationNickelodeon Fit lets you experience a new way to play and stayphysically active while exercising with your favorite Nickelodeonfriends. This collection of games provides a heart-pumpingway to get kids active as they exercise with Nickelodeon characterslike Dora Diego Kai-Lan and the Backyardigans all together in avideo game for the first time. &nbs… |
|
|
Your Shape Fitness Evolved $18.37 Introducing Your Shape Fitness Evolved, a revolutionary fitness game for Kinect for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. Your Shape?s proprietary Player Projection technology puts your body into the game for the ultimate experience. You?ll control the game intuitively with your voice and body as you create your desired fitness experience. Choose a personal trainer to he… |
|
|
The Biggest Loser Challenge $14.54 One of the leading interactive health and fitness video games is back with The Biggest Loser Challenge. Players that are looking to lose a little weight a lot of weight or maintain their physique will now be able to enjoy than 125 exercise moves in four different environments including “The Biggest Loser” Ranch “The Biggest Loser” Gym “The Biggest Loser” Yoga Area and “The Biggest Loser” Boxing Ri… |
|
|
Breathing: The Master Key to Self Healing (The Self Healing Series) $14.68 A complete course of eight breathing exercises that Dr. Andrew Weil uses in his own life, and has prescribed to hundreds of patients over the past two decades. In plain language, Dr. Weil explains the secret of breathworks power over our health, and its remarkable ability to influence and even reprogram the nervous system. A practical introduction to this crucial aspect of self healing, pr… |
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
Comments are closed.