Africans are Bodybuilding to Forget Wars, Poverty, and to get Huge

The continent of Africa has had lots of trouble over the years with poverty, hunger, corrupt governments, and even genocide. And despite not having the best equipment or nutrition, many Africans are finding a release from their troubles through bodybuilding.

If you had to pick one out of the six inhabitable continents that has experienced the most trouble over the years, chances are the answer would be pretty obvious. That’s because there may be no continent that has seen more bloodshed and instability in recent years than Africa has. Add into the mix that there are still African nations that are engaged in ethnic and political wars and you’ve got a massive number of troubled people.

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In fact, just earlier this year, Africa experienced another massive problem in Kenya when an incumbent president by the name of Mwai Kibaki was re-elected to another term despite an opposition leader by the name of Raila Odinga claiming that the election was rigged. After the election results, violence erupted in the nation and over 1,000 people were left dead in the aftermath.

Even Olympic runners, who are often hailed as heroes in the nation, weren’t above the violence as one named Wesly Ngetich was shot by an arrow during the post-election violence. Another by the name of Lucas Sang died an even more gruesome death as he was hacked up in a western Kenyan village as a result of the eruption after the election ended. But Kenya isn’t the only nation in recent years to experience such troubles.

The plight of what some African countries have to deal with was well documented in the movie Hotel Rwanda where the slaughtering of over 800,000 people was depicted. In this conflict, a group of extremist Hutus combed the nation of Rwanda looking for Tutsis to kill during the mid-90’s. The film really brought to light a lot of the troubles that go on in Africa.

And with everything that the continent has had to go through and is still experiencing, you wonder how they can cope with their troubles. Well one way that people who live in western, central, and eastern Africa are coping with the troubles of their continent is through bodybuilding. This is extremely interesting too since those who don’t live in Africa rarely ever hear about there being any sort of bodybuilding presence on the continent. But believe me, there is!

And believe the NTPowerHouse Africa Organization as well since they are heading a movement to establish the sport of bodybuilding as not only a recreational activity in the nation but a lifestyle as well. The movement has its origins in western Africa and recently spread to eastern Africa not too long ago where its operations are established in Uganda. And now the NTPowerHouse Africa organization is seeking to further establish bodybuilding in countries that are even more impoverished than the average African nations with the region in question being central Africa.

Countries like Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and others feature residents who have a tough time even getting a meal each day. But NTPowerHouse Africa hopes that, through bodybuilding, they can give people who live in these areas an outlet to improve their lives. And if their movement does as well as it did in places such as eastern Africa, you can definitely expect some positive results.

All of the sudden, in an area where very little was ever known about bodybuilding, gyms are starting to appear left and right. Cities such as Nairobi have seen the sport of bodybuilding soar in popularity along with the number of gyms. Even the aforementioned troubled Kenya has seen the number of bodybuilding enthusiasts increase rapidly within its borders and has developed the Kenyan Bodybuilding Federation (KBBF).

And perhaps the biggest sign that bodybuilding is alive and going strong in Africa is the fact that there is the Africa Bodybuilding Championships every year in Kampala, Uganda. As mentioned before, the city is already a hub to the NTPowerhouse Africa bodybuilding organization and being the location for the African Bodybuilding Championships only solidifies its position as one of the continent’s premier bodybuilding centers.

But despite all of the progress made by NTPowerhouse and others in an effort to bring bodybuilding to a wide scale African audience, there are still plenty of things that stand in the way of the effort. For one thing, many of the areas where people are trying to spread bodybuilding to lack basic things like Internet access. And as many of us know, the Internet has been a great tool for those wishing to find bodybuilding knowledge to help them improve their physique.

Not having Internet access is a huge hindrance to the bodybuilding goals for these Africans and muscle-building books aren’t exactly up to date in many of these countries either. Imagine trying to learn all your bodybuilding from a shabby library with hand-me-down books older than you. That’s what a lot of these people are faced with.

Along with the lack of Internet access (as well as other communication methods) many of the athletes don’t hear of bodybuilding events until right before they happen which doesn’t give them adequate time to prepare. This happened in the African Bodybuilding Championships held in Kampala where one bodybuilder named John Bosco Ssebabi blamed his poor performance on late information saying, “Although we train regularly on our own, such championships require extra training and special diet at least for a month.”

Going even further, there’s certainly the lack of funding and nutrition for those who want to participate in bodybuilding too. Ssebabi and some of his fellow bodybuilders also cited not having enough food as one of their collective downfalls which is hard for people in wealthier nations to imagine since they normally have plenty of money to buy exactly what they need for a proper bodybuilding diet.

Another thing that relates to the monetary problems of African bodybuilding is the availability of quality equipment too. Even the nation of Uganda and its capitol city of Kampala don’t have enough gyms to support the demand for the sport. So if the center of the movement for African bodybuilding is having trouble with gyms just think about how some of the more undeveloped nations are struggling with this problem.

In fact, some of the “gyms” in Africa aren’t exactly what many of us would really consider a gym. That’s because these so-called gyms are located outside and they feature stuff like wooden benches with shirts draped over the surface, dirt ground, and ancient barbells and weight plates. They are a far cry from the climate controlled, state-of-the-art Gold’s Gyms of the world.

One other huge problem that stifles the development of African bodybuilding is the simple lack of support from those who don’t understand the sport. And this goes beyond lack of support as far as donations towards gyms, athletes, and organizations go. Much of the public simply does not like bodybuilding as it has supposedly been linked to robberies and violence in certain countries. And the reason for this misunderstood link? Because of the belief that people develop their bodies so they are better able to attack and rob others.

Obviously this line of thinking shows just how far the sport of bodybuilding has to go in order to gain acceptance in Africa as a whole. And there are plenty of other obstacles that stand in the way of the sport reaching a status that allows anybody the ability to participate in it. But the fact that there are people out there lifting and training on wooden benches while walking on dirt surfaces is inspiring. Especially when some of these bodybuilders have much more important things to worry about once their workout is over with. I really wish these Africans the best of luck in their goal of spreading the sport of bodybuilding and I wish the people of the continent the best of luck in overcoming their struggles as well.

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