Bodybuilding For Seniors

Simple exercising and dietary steps can ensure better health and prolonged life and as such senior bodybuilding is an activity that can prove to be very beneficial because it helps to create a healthier senior person while improving the condition of the heart, and can even can prove to be a good means of prolonging life. Read more

Vegetarian Body Building: The Myths

Do you need to eat meat in order to succeed in body building? Vegetarians are not the typical thin and gaunt images that you see portrayed in the mass media. Rather with complete understanding about nutrition, you can create a diet filled with healthy essentials that could help support your vegetarian body building. Read more

Weight Lifting vs. resistance training

Before modern invention, the ability to build muscle or strength train for sport or fun, was dependant on the clever use of what ever nature made available, as seen on Egyptian tombs, with displays of men exercising with make-shift techniques of swinging rock or sand. According to the earliest records, the Greeks began the Olympics in 776 B.C. and bodybuilding wasn’t a competitive sport ( the art of displaying the muscles) until Eugene Sandow popularized it in September, 1901 with the first bodybuilding contest held in London, U.K.

Well, the Olympics are back and have been entering weightlifting events since 1896, and women have been entering since 2000. Read more