We will discuss the very nature of bodybuilding and aesthetic culture in general; more precisely of the common points and differences with the sports disciplines.
The subject is rather tricky, as bodybuilding has gained a bad reputation in recent decades - mainly due to the obvious abuse of performance-enhancing drugs. Therefore, many associate bodybuilding with an "image of unhealthy, ignorance and clumsiness.
Sport instead ... "it's still sport!"This cliché makes it perfectly clear that the various sports disciplines - albeit repeatedly touching by the" dark hand of illegal pharmacological chemistry, especially in professionalism - regardless of everything, continue to arouse positive reactions and thoughts.
Note: in any sport it is possible to use doping, as many types of active principle fall under this category; we are not speaking only of steroids, therefore, but also of other anabolic broncho-dilating substances, which increase the synthesis of hemoglobin, which improve concentration, which reduce nervous tension, etc.
Accomplice of this deviant mechanism, also the totally wrong goddess that bodybuilding does not require any of the very useful athletic skills, instead necessary in the various sports disciplines.
It is therefore not surprising that, to date, bodybuilding represents the "opposite pole" of sport.
, speed, in all their variants), and the coordination (general and special); to them we could also add muscle flexibility and joint mobility.
Are we sure that none of the aforementioned conditional skills are involved in bodybuilding?
Absolutely not!
