Is body building a healthy exercise?
I used to go down to the gym, lift weights for a few hours until I reached total exhaustion and then repeat the process several days a week. Externally my body looked in healthy muscular condition. But internally I was very sick and exhausted. As well as weight training my exercise regime was strenuous running and intense martial art training. At this stage in my life I truly believed that such hard-core body building training or exercise was beneficial to my health. We are told everywhere to exercise more. But the body building training I was doing was in fact making my body very weak and was one of the elements causing my body to finally break down into a state of bedridden exhaustion (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) for several years. Weight training involves tearing the muscle fibres and then letting these muscle fibres heal again. This causes a growth in muscle mass. Weight training is like a mild trauma to the muscular tissue and nervous system. If a person does not fully recovery from
