Bodybuilding and fitness blog

Today Fitness is fashionable. And what is it in reality? If in very short, it is a complex of exercises aimed at reviving the body and maintaining good physical shape. Every woman dreams of a good shape, excellent well-being and good health. And, of course, it is not to be forgotten during pregnancy.

It’s time to start fitness even if you’ve never visited any health clubs, fitness centers, then why not use your new state for the benefit, why not take care of yourself during pregnancy? This will give you great pleasure, add health and will certainly help in the childbirth. Because there is nothing more precious than your health and, consequently, the health of your unborn baby.

Simple exercises are advised to all women with the uncomplicated pregnancy. The obstetric practice proves that physical inactivity (sedentary lifestyle) is detrimental to pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum. Ii can result in strengthened toxemia, weakness of childbirth and reduction of the daily doses of milk.

The effects of inactivity can be avoided if the workload is organized correctly, in particular – physical exercises. Any fitness exercises are selected with the obligatory account of individual characteristics. During pregnancy, women gain weight this fact should be considered, as it increases the load on the heart and the musculoskeletal system.

The exercises should be aimed at strengthening and improving the elasticity of the muscle groups involved in the birth process as well as the back muscles and the chest ones. Today, virtually any “self respecting” fitness center offers the exercise program for pregnant women. Do not forget that all the loads must be carefully calculated, and, therefore, in search of the “pregnant fitness” it is better go to those clubs, that have developed special programs for women in “interesting” situation.

In order that the problem of choice was not longer a problem, you just need to consult a doctor who oversees the course of your pregnancy, to find the best health club and start training.

Physical exercises help your child to “fight” with hypoxia (oxygen deficiency) as during the exercises increases the lungs ventilation, and hence the amount of oxygen in the blood, which will be received by your baby. And this is so important in our modern urban life!

Exercises for the pectoral muscle groups help the future mother to keep the breast shape and to prepare it for a good full lactation (milk production) and harmonious and proper load on the muscles of the perineum and pelvis, will directly prepare your body for future childbirth.

Children to be born healthy, mothers to remain beautiful

The “Pregnant fitness” is designed not only to preserve health and beauty of any mother and future child, but also to prepare each of them to the childbirth. To do this they need:
Start aqua gymnastics, where exercises are designed for stretching, strengthening and relaxing of various muscle groups, proper breathing, decrease stress on the spine;
carefully study and daily practice the breathing exercises, whose many techniques will help to ease pain during the contractions and do the work of the birthing-mother during the bearing-down period the most successful.

America is in shock! The published data shows that the majority of male clients of fitness clubs are sick with body dismorphic disorder! Not sure what this is? The essence of this serious mental deviation is reduced to the fact that a person connects his life’s failures with “bad” appearance. Girls tend to think that ugly figure does not give them a chance to get married; they harass themselves with “hungry” diets and lose measure in fitness classes.
But what about men? – about the same, but with opposite sign. Men, in their opinion, generally lack volume and muscle mass. But to onlookers everything looks innocuous. A man writes to a club and begins to thrust his workout. And only an expert can examine in his behavior the disturbing symptoms. For example, such. Measure of stress and relaxation is not observed. A week has more training days than days of recovery. Training is done following the most ruthless methods. Here and there are taken stimuli, from food supplements – to pharmacological drugs.

Of course, not everyone who buys a fitness card is ill with body dismorphic disorder. However, if the trainee does not pose specific sport tasks, then it certainly is about one degree or another of this disease. Sport always involves training according to a plan, a stepwise increase in skill and a mandatory sportsmanship. If you aim to take part in competitions – even without hope for a prize, but just for fun, then you are beyond suspicion. But if you, almost daily, do heavy exercises “for yourself” and all through the day take steroids, you need a serious conversation with a psychologist. Remember that body dismorphic disorder is a mental illness and it distorts the perception of the world. For those who have body dismorphic disorder it is difficult to have harmonious relationships with others, because he is always dissatisfied with himself, despondent and depressed. For the same reason, he usually cannot find a job or stay on it. Over time, mirror remains for the patient with body dismorphic disorder a sole source of emotions. If he sees a “good” reflection, his mood is enhanced, if a “bad” one, he goes through an emotional crisis.

Another typical illusion of the disease – the belief that in assessing a person, people are guided by the same criteria as he has for himself, i.e., sneer at his “thin” arms, “lack” of muscles, etc. As a result, the person becomes reclusive and withdrawn, loses social communication, which is the main condition for a successful life. Nobody argues, a healthy and sporting appearance is important, however, psychologists believe that the main factor of success in life is “the ability to communicate.” I have to note that among the instructors in the gyms and personal trainers you will never meet the patient with body dismorphic disorder. Nevertheless, the managers of fitness clubs are advised to hire only those who have competitive experience.

First, they will “shut down” sports nutrition, then – bodybuilding … Personally, there is no other urgent and pressing topic than the attempt of the U.S. lawmakers to ban sports nutrition. And, ostensibly because of good intentions. Like, this ban will be beneficial for everybody. The manufacturers of sports nutrition will be taken in tight rein and will be forced to expose all the products under a long years testing, first on animals and then on human volunteers. And if such testing will prove its effectiveness and in addition will not detect dangerous side effects, the products will go on sale, but will be available … only on prescription. The opponents of sports nutrition insist that the majority of the currently existing supplements – are a kind of cheating, profanity, speculation on the human desire to find a nice athletic musculature. Alas, there are no arguments to oppose.

For example, medicine insists that the protein intake above the norm (1 – 1.5 grams per kilogram of the body weight) does not affect the processes of anabolism and only overloads kidneys and liver. Moreover, the testing was not only for ordinary people but also for athletes: cyclists, joggers and skaters. However, doctors have never put their experiments on bodybuilders! But they all together say that taking large quantities of protein their muscles grow better. Unfortunately, doctors understand such statements as self-deception and do not even consider seriously. As for scientific counterarguments, and I repeat, the bodybuilders simply do not have them. Even the biggest manufacturers of the powdered protein did not make great experiments, not counting the need to spend time for proving the obvious.

So far, the only product whose use and complete safety is confirmed by the science is creatine. That’s it to be left in the free market. As for other supplements, in particular, of plant origin, they say that their use is not warranted by the science. The assurances that this or that particular plant has been used for centuries in the folk medicine are regarded as speculative.

Yes, I agree that in the manufacture of sports nutrition it is necessary to restore the order, but why prohibit sports products? I think we need more money to invest in practical research and be sure to fund the theoretical science. “Failures” in the field of supplements occur only because of our almost complete blindness in the matters of the human body arrangement. Until now, the science has not answered the main question: how do muscles grow? It is for this reason that the search of the growth stimulants for muscles is done without thinking and leads to the creation of «blank samples”. Support the sports nutrition industry! Give it money for a large-scale scientific work! That’s when we get really working and safe supplements! Don’t we?