Hey guys I am back with march blog, and this time I am going to clear many doubts regarding the type of fitness training one should took up to achieve best out of his/her body. Now don’t expect me to tell you that one training method is superior to other, no raining is superior to other when it comes to achieve a respectable level of fitness, I might be helping those who are confused to choose among these training methods based on their body types and other factors.
Bodybuilding
Starting off with bodybuilding and for those who don’t know what it is you can search it on the web and the definition is as follows “ a sport involving strenuous physical exercise in order to strengthen and enlarge the muscles of the body”. Now as written in the definition itself it is a sport where one subjects his/her muscle to intense pain via various lifting methods to force it to grow in size, the only goal of this sport is not just to increase muscle size but to achieve a decent level of fat in body whereby each and every muscles can be seen clearly.
CrossFit
Talking about CrossFit , it is one of the most rigorous training you are ever going to do, after every session you are going to be lying on floor craving for breathe now you can ask its definition on google it show you following results CrossFit a high-intensity fitness programme incorporating elements from several sports and types of exercise. But this always need not be very high in intensity rather it can be done choosing some bodyweight and other exercises you are comfortable doing and doing it in high repetition maintaining high intensity instead of very high intensity.
Powerlifting
Powerlifting is a sport of maximal effort in one rep, the only thing you have got is a rep and you have to put on everything out of your body to lift that heavy ass weight against the gravity. And its definition is a form of competitive weightlifting in which contestants attempt three types of lift in a set sequence. Due to less work and less exercises doesn`t take away its intensity, lifting heavy weight all the time needs more energy and though it seems only three exercises that are to be tested but the training itself includes numerous assistance exercises.
Calisthenics
Now this is a sport for those who can just lift their bodies to like dummies. This sport requires less equipment as less as just a pull up bar. Apart from what you think about abs, for this sport you need to build it, not really the abs but the core strength. The definition would help and it is gymnastic exercises to achieve bodily fitness and grace of movement. This is really very hard, those athletes make it look easy as hell, but the fact is that it doesn`t happen, just believe me guys I have tried it multiples times but failed on many of them and still I am not able to do those movements.
That was all about these training methods now I am going to talk about who should choose which training style and why. And don`t get demotivated if in some way you do not fit into whatever you are doing. Just do whatever you like the most, do whatever you enjoy the most, your body type is not going to determine what you should be doing and what not. Now lets just start the comparison:
1.if your body type is ectomorph, you need to do hell of a hard work don`t lose motivation, the best training style that suits you would preferably calisthenics. Calisthenics is way to go for ectomorphs, the low bodyweight and skinny structure help them lift their bodies in any way they would like to. Building muscles to the frame has been a major issue to ectomorphs but still there are many pro bodybuilders in today`s date who have such body type, some of the greatest legendary bodybuilders like flex wheeler and frank zane were ectomorphs. So calisthenics is going to be easy for you while you will always have an edge over other body types in bodybuilding due to fact that you can eat like hell without getting fat.
2. Talking about mesomorphs, they have kind of body which enables them to take part in any sport. People with body type need not to think much about which sport to choose, you can excel in any sport, they can achieve extreme level of muscularity as compared to ectomorphs while still they can manage a lean body than those of endomorphs. I would prefer you choose any training you like. Being athletically elite among other body types, two sport that I would prefer would be CrossFit and bodybuilding.
3. now endomorphs, this body type is completely opposite of ectomorph. People with such body type don’t find it easy to loose fat, still they can have insane amount of muscles which makes them look quite bulky. This body type can easily excel in sports where winning and loosing completely depends on power such as powerlifting and strongman. So powerlifting is one sport for this body type while people with this body type can still excel in bodybuilding due to their huge structures if they manage to stay lean during their competitions.
So I don’t want any of my reader to leave their on going sport just because their body types did not matched with their sport, these are all theories developed over years after various researches but still no one knows the limit of human body. I still would love to see an ectomorph doing powerlifting and endomorph doing calisthenics, do challenge your body every training try to push yourself beyond your limits every time you enter the gym and that’s the only way.
Now let’s talk about lot of myths going around about losing fat. One of the popular remedies that I hear often times is “drink honey with hot water in the morning”. Personally, I don’t completely disagree with it, there have been multiple people who have used it and they did find some changes in their bodies, so I will give a thumbs up to this and adding a little sugar to it will also help. Drinking hot water with honey and lemon in morning with empty stomach is a good idea but it will certainly lower your appetite so if you are willing to start working out or you have already started some physical activities in your daily routine then you should not be selecting it not because you are already doing some efforts but because if you do participate in physical activities then your body is craving for energy and you can’t ignore your body requirements when you are putting on so much hard work for your body. I would also prefer you eating less but eating often, now this seems quite conflicting with the fact that you should be on less calorie while you are trying to lose fat but the thing is when you “eat less but often” your body will be able to utilize most of the nutrients and there is less chance your body will store fat. eating often does not mean like having food every hour it is just like having five small meals instead 3 big ones. I don’t want you to do fasted cardio’s, like this going to make you completely weak and you will be ruining up your whole day. For those who don’t know what is fasted cardio, it is method of training where you do your cardio workout with completely empty stomach and your digestive system is no longer processing the food, it is generally done in morning when you wake up. Now if you take some carbs after the cardio session you will end up gaining more fat. So, in my opinion fasted cardio is not a good idea if you just do some small workout session in morning that is enough to give you a fresh and strong kickstart to your day.
I think I have covered up most of the important topics that are being asked up again and again from me. There are plenty of myths going on all around the internet and writing on all of them will make the blog too lengthy and boring, so if you feel I have missed some important topics or you have questions regarding diets do comment in the comment section.
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