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MeSSAGe FROM iFBB

PReSidenT

dR. RAFAeL SAnTOnjA

Dear friends in sport: bodybuilding training, and nutrition Nothing else in human history
can help individuals to achieve has shown a similar effect! The best
The IFBB is an organization that stronger, balanced bodies with visual example of it, is our athletes
promotes the values of sport, proper control of body fat and in over 60 and plus years old, and
health, and the Fitness lifestyle good health. their healthy muscular bodies.
around the world. Fitness and bodybuilding weight The IFBB is very conscious of all
training and nutrition techniques these capacities of our sport and
FITNESS & BODYBUILDING ARE: are great allies of physiologists, includes in its board a Scientific
physiotherapists, and the medical and Research Commission, working
• Sports community to prevent and recover with scientific and university
• Successful complimentary from injuries, accidents and institutions worldwide in the
training for other sports maintain the muscular body elaboration of reports, participation
• Healthy lifestyle at all ages functions in better condition for a in symposiums and congresses, and
longer time. promoting antiaging fitness lifestyle
The IFBB organizes yearly over Fitness and bodybuilding are in the society.
8.000 competitions worldwide, in excellent support for anti-aging. In The IFBB is pleased to be active
which athletes from very young fact, the aging process is expressed in all these areas in the strong belief
ages in children fitness categories physically by the progressive that physical health is a great
to our master bodybuilding deterioration of lean body mass, and contribution from sport to society.
champions, represent the maximum it is represented by the progressive Wishing you all the success, in
expectation of human physical loss of muscles with an increase of sport and in life,
muscular development in healthy fat and connective tissues, which Warmest regards,
harmony. brings the ultimate musculoskeletal
As complementary training for and physical deterioration.
other sports, helps the athletes to Numerous scientific researchs
become stronger, optimizing already proved the great efficiency
muscular density at the ideal of fitness training and nutrition to
performance body weight, to prevent and/or reverse this
achieve their maximum potential. process. Recent studies have even
Fitness and bodybuilding shown that strength training can
lifestyle is followed by millions of cause a functional reversal of aging
people worldwide. at the molecular level, “repairing”
Regardless of age, gender, and very poorly functioning genes of Dr. Rafael Santonja
previous physical condition, elder people. IFBB President

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