The recent death of the 28-year old Romanian bodybuilder Viorel Ristea in Miami, just before the start of the Fitness Universe Week-end where he was supposed to compete again, raised the issue of the risks of extreme training to achieve perfection in bodybuilding. He had previously ranked third in the Musclemania Universe contest in Las Vegas and intended to become number one this year. Unfortunately he died while asleep in his hotel room in Miami. Some say that his death is related to the steroids he may have used while others say that his strict diet was the cause, Viorel Ristea`s body succumbing to dehydration. We all know that a popular method among bodybuilders to make their muscles more visible during a competition is abstention from drinking liquids some three days before contests.
Bodybuilding is a sport that sometimes requires extreme efforts to change the aspect of the human body to the extent that most of the muscles become evident. The bodybuilder is training himself to get his muscles grow as much as possible in parallel with loosing fat, finally making his muscles look as a sculpture of Michelangelo.
To achieve a maximum visibility of their muscles the athletes use methods to increase the sensation of evidence for their muscle. They usually place lights in proper places, oil their bodies and tan them according to a carefully programmed training to be in their pick during competitions and doping is firmly ousted from this world.
Arnold Schwarzenegger might be the best known bodybuilder for persons not connected with the sector, but those more interested in bodybuilding most probably also know Jay Cutler, the present day Mr. Olympia, a title that officially recognizes the top bodybuilder of the Charles Atlas, Steve Reeves, Reg Park or Lou Ferrigo. Every newcomer in the bodybuilding training dreams to be their look-alike. Let’s have a look in the history of this sport to see how dangerous it is.
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