subject: Bodybuilding Training Tips For Female Bodybuilders [print this page] No matter how much a female body builder exercises, without an appropriate diet program to complement the exercises, it is all in vain. The diet program must be adequate for the energy and body development needs of the training exercises and yet be low on calories and fat contents to enable body fat loss and weight control. Every woman must remember never to ignore the diet during body building. Secondly no bodybuilder, especially women, should treat dieting as a punishment or deprivation.
Unless the bodybuilder accepts dieting as a way to develop healthy eating habits, then soon or later she will falter and ruin the gains of the entire program. Then again the diet program should not constitute large but few meals. Rather, the ideal diet constitutes small but frequent meals packed with all nutrients and minerals. Small and nutrient-rich meals are enjoyable and also very healthy for a body builder.
The ability of humans to control body heat through sweating is based on the effect of evaporation. When a body builder sweats during a workout, he or she clears the excess body heat by the strenuous exercise. What happens is that the sweat on the skin evaporates into the air leaving behind a cooling effect. This protects the skin from overheating until it cooks itself. Women body builders and physical fitness trainees are very concerned about loosing body fat, maintaining or amplifying body size and even establishing a healthy lifestyle. They usually undergo rigorous training and diet programs with a motivation, persistence and discipline rare in male bodybuilders.
Unfortunately, loosing body fat and accumulating muscles is harder in females than it is in men and the common occurrence is frustrations among most women. Bodybuilding was once a hobby and a part time occupation. Today however, bodybuilding has evolved into a competitive sport prospering a multi-billion industry. As a result, crooked practice has gained roots and body building has become a quest for glory for many. The problem of this commercialization has largely been felt in steroids and substance abuse among professional and even armature body builders. In the early 1980's, steroids were legal and readily available. But a ban on the steroids, growth hormones and performance enhancers in body building competitions and many other sports made the substances disappear from the chemists and drug stores.
What it caused was a ripple growth of black market supply chains that could not be controlled. The black market demand Manufacturers got smarter and supplied steroids unknown before some of which were totally undetectable. This has remained the single most delimiting reality on the control of this substance abuse even today. Ingenious body builders still manage to beat testing of listed substances during screening and testing. Regulatory bodies are responsible for testing drug and substance abuse among competing body builders. This makes it so prone to violation while also allowing non-competitive body builders without contesting dreams, to abuse the same substances with wantonness. The substances banned are different across various nations and jurisdictions making testing very complicated. Worse still modern steroids have a very short life and even if banned, they permeate back to the market in different packages and constitution.
