Maybe non-smokers will never understand the meaning of smoking, but for smokers, tobacco may have different meanings to them, either to relieve anxiety, boredom or relaxation, but in any case, smoking is harmful and cigarettes are extremely addictive. For many bodybuilders, cigarettes may be more harmful than ordinary people, which will not only affect their fitness effect, but also affect muscle growth. However, it must be said that there are still many smokers among bodybuilders nowadays, and even bodybuilders smoke a pack of cigarettes a day.

And there are not a few bodybuilders who smoke, such as a gentleman. Therefore, a gentleman can talk about the influence of smoking on muscle building. My personal feeling is that both smoking and non-smoking can build muscles, but the gap is still quite large. So what's the difference between a bodybuilder who packs a pack of cigarettes every day and a bodybuilder who never smokes?

Muscle training effect

Bodybuilders who have requirements for fitness effects will definitely not smoke before and after fitness training, because smoking has a great influence on fitness training at this time. Of course, some bodybuilders don't have so many requirements for fitness effect, so they smoke unscrupulously, but smoking will affect the oxygen uptake of muscles, which will increase during fitness training. If smoking leads to insufficient oxygen uptake of muscles, it will seriously affect the training effect of muscles. Bodybuilders who smoke will definitely feel chest tightness during training.

Differences in muscle morphology

As we said before, whether you smoke or not, you can actually build muscles, but the shape of muscles is still different. But for laymen, you may not see any difference, but only real smokers will find that smoking will affect muscle circumference. This is some personal feelings of a "gentleman". Sometimes I think it may be my own psychological effect, but I always feel that I will lose muscle every time I finish smoking, but there is no way. I don't want to do it yet.

The difference in muscle strength between the two sides

Many bodybuilders will quit smoking slowly after fitness, because smoking really has a great influence on their training level. Just like many bodybuilders like to do aerobic training, smoking will obviously affect your heart and lung function, so that you will feel out of breath after running for a short time, and in terms of muscle endurance, smokers are not as good as non-smokers. Many smokers don't feel when they don't exercise, but they will feel very obvious when they start exercising.

In short, smoking has a great influence on bodybuilders, and smoking is really harmful to health. If you are a bodybuilder, you should quit smoking as soon as possible in order to keep healthy and ensure the fitness effect.

Will you quit smoking to stay healthy?