Differences Between Fitness and Bodybuilding

The lifestyle of a man can be different to any other. Someone like running, someone sleeping. Someone like alcohol someone not need much. So everyone has a individual lifestyle.

When it comes to a sportive lifestyle first you decide what you need. The aim of the activity must be big concern of your lifestyle. So that you can make it in a lovely manner.

Now it’s time to understand the differences of most manly sports of bodybuilding and fitness…

Bodybuilding

Usually means hypertrophy by causing micro tears in the muscles and when it repairs muscles grow bigger. That’s the way to increase the size of your muscles.

  • To bulk up your body and growing muscles
  • Performs weight training. They choose the heaviest weights that they can’t do any rep more than the exact reputation (6-12 generally)
  • Generally must be more professional like an athlete
  • Power, speed and agility enhace
  • Workouts spread most of the days of the week
  • Achieve to progress of lifting weights
  • Muscles need repair time because of the microtrauma
  • Muscles get bigger as they repair
  • Hardening the bones, strengthening joints and connective tissue as well as muscles.
  • Need to more calories from proteins
  • To have bigger muscle size and functional strength
  • Consumes more than 5000 calories in a day, the biggest difference is bodybuilders are getting more calories and mostly from the protein sources. They may get fat up to 15 percent of their bodyweight during the noncompetition season.
  • Creates microtrauma to the muscles and in this way muscles get bigger as they repair.

Fitness

Its used to mean getting and staying fit. Fitness training aims to be healthy and stay in shape.

  • Weight control to stay in shape and stretching muscles
  • Can be performed without weights
  • Can be performed anywhere and outside easily
  • To get weight loss
  • To stay fit and healthy
  • For who prefers to lose some fat
  • Anyone can do fitness and you don’t need to perform like an athlete
  • Not always need a gym to perform most exercises
  • Compared to hypertrophy training fitness training aims to perform high number of reps with smaller weights
  • Helps improve cardiovascular system
  • For agility
  • Consumes under 3000 calories in a day.

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