It seems that in every Olympic Games, weightlifting will become the focus of people’s [relish]. However, apart from gold medals, people’s understanding of weightlifting is mostly limited to these focuses: [weightlifters are poor] [weightlifting risks are high] [weightlifting will push people short]… then? There seems to be nothing else.
As a [big weightlifting country], ordinary people know very little about the healthy significance of weightlifting.
Weightlifting makes people short? Weightlifting contributes to bone development.
The National Sports Bureau has repeatedly refuted the rumor that weightlifting will not make people shorter.
We see that the athletes in weightlifting competitions are not tall because [event selection]: coaches tend to choose short athletes and athletes with low center of gravity. Weightlifting competitions are divided according to weight, so short athletes have a great advantage in the same kilogram category.
A series of investigations and studies have also proved that:
Weightlifting exercises do not affect the height development of teenagers. If the training is scientific and reasonable, it will promote bone development.
The growth of bone is accomplished by non-proliferation and ossification of chondrocytes in cartilage. Before the age of 18, the bone is in the development stage. Due to the frequent pressure on weight lifting, the chondrocytes of adjacent joints are squeezed and rubbed, and the epiphyseal chondrocytes continue to proliferate and divide, thus the bone grows longer and longer.
Weightlifting, especially on lower limb bones and trunk bones, has a strong effect. A large part of a person’s height is determined by genes, but reasonable exercise makes bones acquire changes and can promote the bone development of teenagers.
However, if the age of athletes is not considered, unscientific training methods and unreasonable exercise amount and intensity will cause premature ossification or pathological injury of cartilage tissue, and bones will stop growing in adulthood.
Weightlifters are all fat? Weightlifting helps to shape and slim down.
Do you think weightlifters are like this?
These really belong to [strong fat people]. Because of their exercise and basic metabolism, they need more fat to support the calories they consume, so such a body shape is inevitable.
But there are also such things:
This kind of body shape may not be appreciated by some people, but it is definitely not fat, but strong.
More like this:
These are all magazine cover-level bodybuilding figures, which have nothing to do with [fat].
Therefore, weightlifters who are not big heavyweights have a very good figure. It is unreasonable to evaluate a sport from the figure of professional athletes.
If you are a woman, practicing weightlifting also has more advantages than disadvantages for you.
Weightlifting training can help you:
- Improve the basal metabolic rate and become [lean constitution]; Improve muscle quality and enhance body coordination ability; Help shape body lines; Correct bad body posture.
Don’t worry that once you practice weightlifting, you will build up a muscle and become a “King Kong Barbie”.
Because you are not an athlete, you do not have the innate talent and training intensity of athletes. Moreover, women’s bodies generally cannot produce enough testosterone to promote muscle growth, and it is difficult to grow large muscles like male athletes.
Weightlifting and fitness can improve physical quality.
You may not think that a 2012 statistic shows that 39 million ordinary people in the United States take part in weightlifting.
Athletes of track and field, rugby, basketball, shot put and javelin will add a large number of weightlifting movements to their training plans. At present, CrossFit (a fitness method combining gymnastics, strength training and quality training), which is popular all over the world, also adds weightlifting movements to the training system, making weightlifting a fashion and making weightlifting techniques continuously popularized.
European and American countries will practice weightlifting from their youth to increase trunk stability and prevent various posture problems related to spine.
For the public, reasonable weightlifting training can greatly improve physical quality and bring the following benefits: improving trunk stability, improving body coordination and increasing explosive force.
Is weightlifting vulnerable?
In all competitive sports competitions, the probability of injury of athletes is very high, including sprint and long-distance running. This is because athletes have been fighting their bodies for decades.
Many people have very limited knowledge of strength training and weightlifting, and are easily injured when lifting heavy objects in life, because they do not know how to make movements that conform to the body’s power structure.
If you are not an athlete, but an enthusiast, and you don’t need to hit the limit weight frequently, then practicing weightlifting will only do you more good than bad.
Reasonable weightlifting training can greatly improve physical quality and is far less vulnerable than many people think.
There are two main reasons why weightlifting is easy to get injured: using wrong movements for training and frequently hitting the limit weight.
And all strength training, should pay attention to:
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At first, it started with bare hands or zero weight, and no one started with heavy weight training.
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There should be a complete and scientific training system and clear where the safety limits of training are.