Bodybuilding is the building of the muscles of the body and its proportions, using physical exercises with dumbbells, weights and barbells, requiring an increased content of nutrients, especially proteins, in the diet. Female bodybuilding became widespread in the late 1970s, when ladies began to take an active part in bodybuilding competitions ...
The Women's Opinion portal decided to find out whether bodybuilding is a female sport, and what opinion Russians have on female bodybuilding.
Women should engage in bodybuilding, - only 10.5% of respondents think so, because "everyone is free to engage in the sport they want. If a woman likes bodybuilding - why not?" If the purpose of the classes is to have a toned stomach, good muscles, a beautiful body and the absence of cellulite, then just a few exercises per week are enough. But still, do not abuse it: "A woman should be in a fit form, and not pumped"; “We need a measure in everything,” visitors of the portal are sure.
If the goal of bodybuilding is to win titles at prestigious competitions, then a different approach is needed: long exhausting workouts, a hard diet and many others. A woman who decides to engage in bodybuilding, herself determines what results she should stop. But, unfortunately, in order to achieve high-profile titles and titles, ladies begin to use steroid drugs that stimulate muscle growth ...
From the use of hormonal agents, side effects immediately appear. The use of male hormones can cause irreversible disorders in the female body: the voice becomes coarser, hair growth on the face and body increases, sweating intensifies, and the smell of sweat becomes sharp, masculine. In addition, causeless nervousness and irritability appear, aggressiveness grows.
It is against the transformation of a woman into a creature of an unknown gender that the vast majority of Russians vote - 89.5% who consider bodybuilding not to be a female sport: "A woman should remain a woman, not a“ jerk ”with a masculine figure." “A woman is a woman, and to remain a fragile, tender, weak creature, and not a“ lump of muscles ”, or you look at these masculine women and you can’t understand: where is the waist, where are the hips, where are the brittle shoulders, - there is a pile of muscles everywhere” ...
Beauty is still a relative concept, but if bodybuilding begins to adversely affect health, is it worth it to deal with at all? Indeed, joints become damaged from excessive loads, varicose veins appear, and the heart and liver suffer from chemical preparations, and this is not a complete list of possible consequences ...
The survey involved 2160 women from 116 cities of Russia aged 20-45 years.
