Health Risks of Bodybuilding for The Young

 
    

  

      Nowadays, physical appearance is very important for everyone in many situations. Many young people try to do their best to look good. For that reason, many of them go on a diet, or do a martial art. Currently, one kind of sports that attracts the young people is body building. The reason is that they want to look attractive, but not necessarily want to become bodybuilders. Having an athletic and healthy body can be another reason for them to go the fitness centers to shape their body.  Still, a lot of them prefer bodybuilding than other sports because they can do exercise every time they want as the gyms are usually open from morning to midnight. In the fitness centers, they try hard to make them physically strong and powerful. They want to have a physique that they can show off  to their friends. Unfortunately, not many of them know that there are some disadvantages of body building such as  potential injuries, bad diets or even death.

     In the fitness center, there are several movements to do that such as running, cycling. lifting, etc. In fact, we need someone to teach and tell us about what movements that are suitable for our body. We have to keep in mind that not every style suits with our body. Again, you still need someone who can tell you about the best movement for you. However, since hiring a personal trainer is quite expensive, a lot of people just imitate every movement that other people do. The side effect of doing this thing is your body will be weakened gradually as wrong movements will harm yourself slowly. The common movement that is usually done in the wrong way is lifting a dumbbell or barbell.  There are a lot of different ways of using dumbbell which create different contractions on your muscles. Another movement in fitness called flat barbell press requires you to lie down on a chair and lift a barbell up and down for a few times. The purpose of this movement is to make your chest wider, your biceps bigger, and your spine stronger. This movement looks very easy to do, but people should do it seriously because if you lift it in the wrong way, it will press your chest too strong and make your spine bend.

      If you are obsessed with having an athletic body and having big muscles, you will never feel satisfy with your body. Then, you will try to eat something that can make your body bigger than before. Body builders usually consume drinks or food with lots of protein or zinc while supplement such as caffeine is linked to anxiety and high blood pressure. Protein may increase your weight and easily improve your muscles. Nevertheless, if you consume it a lot, it will harm your liver.  A drug that a body builder usually consumes is a steroid, a kind of stuff that will make your muscles bigger and looks good. At the first time,  the steroid may not do affect anything to your body. Yet, if you consume it more often, it will slowly harm your heart, liver, and even your brain. Many people are not well-informed or wrongly informed about the danger of. In addition, the media often doesn’t tell the truth about the negative aspects of using steroids. Consequently, many people think that steroids only have positive effects, but many young people don’t realize the real dangers of using steroids which can destroy their body and mind. Public believe that taking steroids will automatically make the users become built and muscular, which is not so. While using steroids, the user must still exercise. It is a wrong perception that consuming steroid is the only way to achieve a muscular build in order to have an admirable physique. People have to understand that their health is much more important that having a muscular body in a short period of time.

     Last but not least, the other disadvantage of body building is the risk of sudden death. It is true that fitness has a lot of advantages such as shaping your body, having lots of friends, and making you stronger physically. We should also acknowledge of this advantage. For example, there is one movement in bodybuilding called cardio. This is one of the most important things to do in fitness since its function is to increase your heart power. The movement in this part involves running or cycling for a few minutes. A body builder usually just skips this exercise because they think that these movements are not necessary. But actually, if the young do a lot of dumbbell lifting and just skip these movements their heart will become weak since they may break its pump. If this happens then the heart, whose function is to pump blood to all of our body parts, won’t be able to supply oxygen to your body and your muscles. Gradually, your body will become weak and suddenly your heart will stop pumping and your body will not get an enough supply of oxygen and then it will stop working. This incident is called heart failure.

     In conclusion, even though bodybuilding has a lot of advantages for people there are lots of side effects to your body if you do it carelessly. So, if you want to do bodybuilding to shape your body, you have to do it more carefully because bodybuilding has some disadvantages too such as injuries, bad diets, and sudden death. It's better if you don't force yourself and do it excessively. Simply practice it normally to avoid those effects or you need to hire a bodybuilding personal trainer if you can afford one.






By Abiandri