You thought bodybuilding was just big biceps? Only doping products and disproportionate bodies? We’re betting you’ll change your mind. Because for the past few years, bodybuilding has been getting a boost.
Bodybuilding is a beneficial activity for the body and which allows you to become more efficient in another sport requiring endurance or explosiveness. You want to know more ? Follow our guide.
What is bodybuilding?
Hippolyte Trait. This name means nothing to you ? He is, however, the founding father of bodybuilding as we know it today, that is to say with weight lifting.
Trait was the first create a gymnasium in 1854. He even invents devices with pulleys and loads but also short exercises to do with dumbbells and long bars.
Between 1960 and 1990 in the United States, bodybuilding is in full swing and the reputation of bodybuilding will take a big hit. In question: the generalisation of doping products and bodies pushed to their last entrenchments, to the limit of deformity.
But for only a few years, the image of healthy and intelligent bodybuilding has become widespread.
If gaining muscle mass remains the main motivation of practitioners, bodybuilding today adapts to the needs of all.
Correcting bad posture, recovering physical form (after a long period of convalescence, for example) or improving health and tone, bodybuilding has plenty of advantages.
Bodybuilding: what are the benefits?
Overall muscle strengthening, reduced back problems, improved breathing, lower heart rate and improved ability to push yourself are just some of the many physical benefits associated with regular strength training.
But the benefits can also be psychological. An often overlooked aspect, sculpting your body is also a good way to gain self-confidence.
In any case, bodybuilding remains a sporting activity that allows you to think about something else and relieve stress.
Combined with a healthy diet and a healthy lifestyle (remember to sleep well), bodybuilding is a sport that is good for you.
Easy to practice, from home or in the gym, it does not require too much or restrictive equipment.
