What is the difference between male fitness and muscle gain

Essentially, the two are in a relationship of inclusion and being included. Men’s fitness is the general term for all sports activities that aim to improve physical condition. Muscle building is just a subdivision where muscle dimension growth and strength improvement are the core demands. The former has a much wider scope.

I have been going to the gym for almost 6 years, and I have seen too many people confuse these two concepts. They even assume that when boys exercise, they must focus on building muscle. If they cannot build arm circumference and chest muscles, their training is in vain. In fact, this is not the case at all. I once took a colleague who worked in the Internet and was diagnosed with mild fatty liver disease with a body fat of 28%. He started following the blogger's muscle-building plan and followed it. After two weeks, his bench press did not increase much, and his weight increased by three kilograms. When he was vomiting after training, he told me that his goal was not to get bigger at all, but to wear a suit without tightening his stomach and climb the fifth floor after get off work without gasping for breath. Later, he was given a plan of low-intensity aerobics and light-weight full-body circulation, and occasionally played basketball for two hours on weekends. In three months, he lost 6 points of body fat, and his fatty liver disappeared. He was working out the whole time, but he didn't gain muscle at all.

There is indeed a lot of controversy in the fitness circle nowadays. Many muscle friends who have been practicing for three to five years always feel that not doing the three major events, not doing five-point training, and not counting daily protein intake is not considered serious fitness. The other party insists that rehabilitation training does not belong to the category of fitness. To put it bluntly, the definition of fitness is narrowed. After all, everyone's exercise needs are very different, and there is no need to apply the standard of muscle gain to all fitness people.

You can intuitively feel the difference between the two if you just go to a commercial gym. People who focus on building muscle basically spend time in the free strength area, doing squats, pushing and pulling, taking a two-minute rest between sets, carrying protein bars in their pockets, and when they get home after training, they still have to look at the nutrition chart to calculate how many grams of protein they have eaten today; There are all kinds of people who are good at fitness. Some people step on the elliptical machine for half an hour to wipe off the sweat and then leave. Some people dance for an hour in an exercise class and it is not enough. Some people only train their core and back to improve their back pain after sitting for a long time. There are even some people who accompany their girlfriends to practice lifting dumbbells twice. They are all serious fitness people, but they do not regard building muscle as their goal.

To use an inappropriate analogy, the relationship between the two is like buying a car and buying a performance car. You can buy a car for transportation, picking up children, off-roading, or even converting it into a bed for camping. Buying a performance car is just a subdivision of the choice to pursue speed and driving pleasure. You can’t say that if you don’t buy a performance car, it doesn’t count as buying a car, right? To put it bluntly, fitness is a completely personalized thing. Whether you choose to build muscle as your goal depends entirely on what you want.