Archive for the Female bodybuilding Category
Bryant Gumbel introduces his HBO Real Sports feature on women’s bodybuilding with, “we move onto the wild, weird and relatively unknown world of women’s bodybuilding. If you’re like most Americans what little exposure to bodybuilding you’ve had, has probably been limited to to brief glimpses of scantily clad competitors posing in a magazine.” You can already assume which direction the feature will go.
Gumbel draws attention to nothing but the negative things associated with women’s bodybuilding. If there was anything positive in the piece, I missed it. Focusing on the negative aspects is the easy route and been done a number of times.
Gumbel dwells on things like “training for at least four hours a day, six days a week.” He chats with Brandi Mae Akers about her troubled childhood and quest to get bigger. Who knows how much video was shot but the way it was edited made Akers appear to be an obsessed women focused only on doing whatever it takes to get big and be in control. (more…)
Female bodybuilding | 07.28.10 | No Comments
Bodybuilding has come up with one of the most popular and passionate sports in present times, so much so that even women have not been able to stay from it. Today female body building is as much prolific a sport as it has been for men who work tirelessly to render best aesthetic value to their bodies and prove themselves at competitive forums.
Physique competitions for women first took place in the year 1960 with the Miss Physique and Miss Americana contests. However, they were not looked upon as more than mere bikini contests and hence didn’t gain much momentum. The first true female body building competition was the U.S. Women’s National Physique Championship, promoted by Henry McGhee in 1978. This was followed by the second U.S. Women’s National Physique Championship in 1979 in which female pro-builders like Kay Baxter, Marilyn Schriner and Cammie Lusko made their presence felt. ‘The Best in the World’ and ‘The Robby Robinson Classic’ were among few other titles that came up to promote female body building. (more…)
Female bodybuilding | 07.10.10 | No Comments
Many women believe in fallacies about gym workouts, such as the following one: once a woman starts doing some weight lifting, she immediately turns into a competition standard bodybuilder. Such image scares the females away from the gyms long before they get a chance to experience the beauty of those trainings. Before you decide to go into bodybuilding, you need to know the true story about this sport. Let’s explode the common myths about the female bodybuilding.
Female Bodybuilder Is Manly
It is impossible from the physiological point of view; female body produces ten or even hundred times less hormone responsible for the muscle mass gain, testosterone, than a male body does. Thus to become extremely masculine, you would have to be born with the male chromosomes dominating in your body or completely change your hormonal state and work out like crazy at the same time. “Natural”, or non-stimulant, bodybuilding can not give such results simply since it is physically impossible to build such a mass of muscles. (more…)
Female bodybuilding | 06.30.10 | No Comments
Bodybuilding for women is an excellent way for women to keep fit while focusing on limiting their weight gain of fat and building their muscles. Women who lift weights feel better and look healthier, but their workouts are different than men bodybuilders.
Women need not worry about building bulk if they lift weights. Women’s bodies never build like men’s bodies because the testosterone is just not there in their bodies. Obviously it would take artificial substance to build bulk like men do. Yet, not all the bodybuilding rules apply to both men and women.
One rule that does apply for both men and women is diet. Eat five to six small meals a day, drink lots and lots of water and get plenty of rest. The workouts are similar, though some women might limit their reps at the start of the program until they build strength. Once the strength is there, they can do more reps.
The bodybuilding workouts available for women are as vast as the amount of competitions available for women each year. Starting out as a bodybuilder means knowing your subject cold without learning everything at once. Learn one thing at a time, do it as best you can, move on and learn another aspect to bodybuilding. Keep learning step-by-step. (more…)
Female bodybuilding | 06.25.10 | No Comments
Testosterone deficiency is usually viewed as a health problem that only men experience, since testosterone is the principle male hormone. However, women produce testosterone as well, and testosterone deficiency in women could cause serious problems, just like in men. Here are some ways that you can tell if you may be dealing with testosterone deficiency as a woman, as well as some suggestions for treatment that you may want to try even before your doctor’s visit.
Lack of sex drive, extreme mood swings, and changes in the menstrual cycle are all signs of testosterone deficiency. Muscles weakness is a sign of the condition as well, and this seems to be more of a problem for athletic women, since testosterone is responsible for muscle mass and physical strength in both men and women. Vaginal dryness and abdominal pain may also be signs of testosterone deficiency, since testosterone is produced in the ovaries, as well as the adrenal glands. The hormone is also produced in the tissues surrounding the adrenal glands, so although testosterone is produced in more than one place in a woman’s it is produced in smaller amounts, but could still change a woman’s body chemistry if it is not produced properly. If you have been experience one or more of these symptoms, there are some things you can do to treat testosterone deficiency. (more…)
Female bodybuilding | 05.5.10 | No Comments
For effective fat loss, you need to do the following:
- Eat 5-8 small meals per day, highlighting proteins, healthy fats and vegetables. The traditional three meals a day won’t do it for burning fat. Balance each meal with about 50% of your calories coming from carbohydrates, 30% from protein and 20% from healthy fats.
- Limit restaurant dining.
- Increase physical activity. Cardiovascular exercise is perhaps one of the most important keys to losing weight.
- Don’t skip on carbs post-workout.
- Get at least 6 hours of sleep nightly. Take a nap if needed during the day.
- Don’t eat just before bedtime. The food that you eat will probably be stored as fat since your body will not be able to burn it off fully.
- Drink more water. Water helps you properly utilize all of your nutrients that you take in through food, which is essential when dieting. It will help you transport the nutrients efficiently into your cells and determine how your cells use them. At the same time, it will help you efficiently eliminate wastes while flushing all toxins out of your body to make you even healthier. Water will also improve your complexion.
| Some days will be tougher than others, especially if you’re on a strict diet. What you must do is to encourage yourself to follow your plan by whatever means you can use. If you eat all the ice cream and candy you want, can you stand the consequences? Remember that falling for temptation will make you fat and put you further away from your dream body.
These changes are not easy to make all at once. By implementing these changes, however, you will see a decrease in your waistline, improved overall health, and more self-confidence.
Dropping fat is not hard. So why does it continue to be |
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an elusive goal for so many people, who fight to lose just a few inches? There is a secret, over 2,000 years old that was disclosed to the general public by the father of medicine, Hippocrates:
If we could give to every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health. |
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Female bodybuilding, Weight Loss | 04.24.10 | No Comments
Although there is some overlap, research has shown that women use androgenic anabolic steroids (AAS) for reasons that are often quite different from those of men. Even more dissimilar are the risks and consequences associated with female steroid abuse. It is clear that AAS use is not equally as dangerous for everyone. For example, AAS are: less dangerous for adult male elite athletes, than their non-athletic counterparts; still more dangerous for teenage boys whose bodies are not yet fully developed; and by far the most dangerous for both women and girls, as the female body is simply not equipped for exogenous (external in origin) male hormones.
Steroids are synthetic derivatives of the naturally occurring male hormone testosterone. They not only possess an anabolic (muscle and strength building) effect, but are androgenic (affecting sexual characteristics) as well. To put it bluntly, steroids are used to make men, manlier. For this single reason steroids are far more potentially harmful to females than they are to males. When introduced to the female endocrine system, AAS create a serious jolt. For example, in sex reassignment treatment (a.k.a. sex changes) the goal is to provide the patient with the opposite gender’s sexual characteristics to fullest extent possible. With the exception of the internal and external genitalia, these characteristics are contingent upon the biological effects of the respective sex steroids. Therefore, (semi)synthetic sex steroids are indispensable tools in sex reassignment treatment, and the use of cross-gender hormone treatment is necessary to achieve the desired outcome (Hamburger, 1969; Leavitt et al., 1980). Thus, women who abuse AAS will necessarily experience significant changes in their secondary-sexual characteristics including clitoral enlargement, a deepening of the voice, increased facial hair and so forth. (more…)
Female bodybuilding | 04.11.10 | No Comments
The female fitness, bodybuilding and strength sports page! Asian Bodybuilders, Female Bodybuilders, Teenage Bodybuilders, Female Fitness Models, Female Wrestlers, Strong Women
Female component of competitive and professional bodybuilding is corresponding to Female Bodybuilding. Bodybuilding for women began in 1970s when women started to participate in bodybuilding competitions and contests.
Fitness and figure contests
Fitness and figure contests are a category of body exposition events for women. This type of competitions are close to female bodybuilding, but it accent is on muscle tone over muscle size. These types of competitions are oftentimes in the same category with bodybuilding contests and take place at the same time. (more…)
Female bodybuilding | 04.11.10 | No Comments
Female bodybuilding is the female component of competitive bodybuilding. It began in the late 1970s when women began to take part in bodybuilding competitions. Physique contests for women date, back to at least the 1960s, with contests like the Miss Physique and Miss Americana. However, these early “bodybuilding” contests were really not much more than bikini contests. The first U.S. Women’s National Physique Championship, promoted by Henry McGhee and held in Canton, Ohio in 1978, is generally regarded as the first true (more…)
Female bodybuilding | 04.6.10 | No Comments
