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CULTURISME [1 record]

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Record 1 2001-10-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weightlifting
DEF

(Specif.): The developing of the physique for competitive exhibition.

OBS

Developing the muscles for the sheer purpose of exhibition is the ultimate of bodybuilding. Bodybuilders taking part in exhibitions must be distinguished from athletes using bodybuilding as a training method; the former's only goal is to give volume to their muscles while athletes in competitive sports work towards gaining muscular strength, resistance, endurance and speed.

OBS

The single word "bodybuilding" is now preferred to the two-words or hyphenated form.

CONT

Women's Bodybuilding Illustrated (magazine); Women's World Professional Bodybuilding Championship.

Key term(s)
  • body work
  • bodywork

French

Domaine(s)
  • Haltérophilie
DEF

Recherche du développement systématique du volume des muscles du corps à des fins surtout esthétiques.

OBS

Le culturisme est le modelage de tous les muscles du corps, chaque groupe musculaire étant travaillé isolément à l'aide de poids et de nombreux appareils spécialisés. Le but des culturistes est le développement corporel dans une esthétique particulière d'hypertrophie du muscle, et leurs démonstrations, spectaculaires, suscitent la fascination ou l'étonnement d'un public curieux de ce culte du corps.

OBS

On peut considérer le culturisme comme le stade ultime de la musculation.

OBS

Attestation de la justesse de l'équivalence par la Fédération haltérophile canadienne.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Halterofilia
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