Category body building

By Dott.Luca Franzon It is tradition during the Easter festivities to carry out spring cleaning, often during these reorganizations of our homes sprout out of some boxes, objects of which we had forgotten and that in his time had been so useful and amusing .... From the box of training it is time to pull out a whole series of exercises that have been forgotten and it was done most of the time because they are tremendously tiring and adjective that the weight-room-goers seem to have forgotten

At the beginning of 2015, the weightlifting record with the squat (squatting) exercise is still in the hands of the Finnish Jonas Rantanen, who performed a squat of 575kg (1268 lb) on 8 October 2011. Rantanen has thus surpassed the American Donnie Thompson, previous holder of the record with 573 kg (1265 lb)

The bull you see in the picture does not need to spend whole days in the gym or follow special diets to keep fit. Its extraordinary muscular development is simply due to a mutation of the gene that codes for myostatin. What is myostatin? Myostatin is a protein discovered in 1997 by scientists McPherron and Se-Jin Lee in studies on cellular differentiation and proliferation

The history of Mister Olympia, the most famous and important competition for professional body builders, begins on 18 September 1965 when Joe Weider organizes and realizes for the first time the event at the Academy of Music in Brooklyn. On that occasion, Larry Scott prevailed, one of the most popular athletes at the time

SEE ALSO: Mister Olympia, the complete story 2014 Mr. Olympia final ranking September 19-20, 2014 at Las Vegas, Nevada (Orleans Arena) Placement First name Nationality 1 + 2 4 Points 1 Phil Heath USA 5 5 10 2 Kai Greene USA 10 10 20 3 Shawn Rhoden USA 15 15 30 4 Dennis Wolf germany 20 20 40 5 Dexter Jackson USA 27 25 52 6 Branch Warren USA 30 35 65 7 Mamdouh 'Ramy' Elssbiay Kuwait 35 31 66 8 Victor Martinez Dominican Republic 36 38 74 9 Steve Kuclo USA 49 50 99 10 Juan Morel USA 50 56 106 11 Johnnie Jackson USA 58 53 111 12 Roelly Winklaar Curacao 58 54 112 13 Fred Smalls USA 67 72 139

Which of these two training theories guarantees maximum muscle development? The choice of the ideal load to guarantee maximum muscle development has always been the subject of numerous debates. Some say that it is better to exhaust the muscles with a high number of repetitions and those who claim it is better to concentrate the stimuli in a few high intensity series

Hated, underrated, taunted, Bodybuilding is sport (some people don't even consider it as such) to avoid, it is the witch to send to the stake to atone for the faults of ignorance. The spread in the gyms of people who weigh more than 100 kg, the presence of instructors completely unprepared for anatomy, physiology, biomechanics, etc

The evils of the last century are known, there are many, now countless ... But among the lovers of the body, sport and well-being in general, terms such as ANORESSIA and BULIMIA have always stood out ... Well, today alongside these it is precisely the case to add another, no less important and worrying: the BIGORESSIA

Generality Vigorexia , or bigorexia , is a form of dysmorphophobia, characterized by a continuous obsession with muscle tone, training, lean mass, a low-calorie and high-protein diet and, finally, the body's athletic hold. In people with vigoressia, the obsession with the above is such that: there is nothing different from physical exercise; social life and work are of secondary importance; the appearance of the body and nutrition are at the center of every daily thought; the sport of choice is weight lifting; the use of dietary supplements and the abuse of anabolic steroids take over; etc

There are those who criticize him, those who despise him and even those who mock him while others defend him with a sword. After reaching the peak in the first half of the 80s, bodybuilding had to suffer all the colors. Today we rarely hear about this sport and people, making a big mistake of assessment, prefer to talk about fitness