A lot of people have picked up the sport of bodybuilding because of its ability to help a person stay fit and healthy. It is very hard to find a person who does not participate in bodybuilding. In fact the biggest hit after the internet is bodybuilding. Even teenagers are now very curious about the sport of bodybuilding because they are aware of how it can help them transform there body physique. If you carefully look at the society you will not fail to see the link between staying fit and bodybuilding. Those in the society who take up bodybuilding are the healthiest and have very well developed body physiques. You can easily identify those who undertake bodybuilding and those who do not undertake bodybuilding by looking at there body physique.

You cannot differentiate between the term bodybuilding and staying fit, because the two have come to be closely related and used interchangeably. A society that focuses on staying fit is a society which can develop rapidly. In the past staying fit was only associated with losing weight and maintaining a lean body mass by performing aerobic exercises. Of late staying fit has been linked with eating a proper diet, lifting weights as well as aerobic exercises, and maintaining a healthy life style. When we talk about maintaining a healthy life style we refer to avoiding the use of steroids. This is because steroids have the following side effects which make you not able to live a healthy lifestyle; enlargement of the clitoris, irregularity of the menstrual cycle, growth of facial hair in women, shrinking of testicles in men, low sperm count, decrease in libido, baldness, kidney problems, liver conditions, heart ailments, insomnia, increase in aggression, and depression.

Fitness nowadays is linked with eating a proper diet as opposed to those diets which mainly focus on taking diets which are calorie restrictive. Fitness concentrates on taking a diet regimen which contains a well balanced diet which contains plenty of proteins, vitamins and carbohydrates. These three foods are very important in helping a person increase body mass. Proteins have two important qualities that are very important for a bodybuilder. One of them includes the ability to repair worn out muscles tissues and the other quality is that proteins contain plenty of calories. The other foods you need to take plenty of are carbohydrates because they are very rich in glycogen. Glycogen fuels the body to undertake intense training and they also help promote protein synthesis. Vitamins help a person by boosting there health.

Fitness is also linked with weight training as this form of exercises helps a person increase the size of there muscles. Muscle hypertrophy requires that you do a lot of weight training exercise using heavy weights with fewer reps as opposed to using light weights with many reps. The third part of staying fit involves undertaking aerobic exercise. Bodybuilders are especially advised to undertake aerobic exercises because they help aid the recovery of the muscles after being damaged by intense weight training.