Translation for "body-building" to spanish

Body-building

noun

• culturismo

Translation examples

culturismo noun

Sonny had a book on body-building;
Sonny vendía un libro sobre culturismo;

Some people can actually crush your hand, but it’s as if they were doing body-building.
Algunos pueden incluso estrujar, pero es como si hicieran culturismo.

Clippings of Vic Harroway’s triumphs in body-building contests.
Contenía exactamente lo que esperaba que contuviera: fotos de los triunfos de Vic Harroway en competiciones de culturismo;

It was my theory that his obsession with body building was inversely proportional to his obsession with his job.
Mi teoría era que su obsesión por el culturismo era inversamente proporcional a su obsesión por el trabajo.

He embodied every excess of body building that an adolescent fantasy could concoct.
Estaba desproporcionado desde toda concepción del culturismo que cualquier fantasía adolescente pudiera imaginar.

He is employed as a construction worker and spends a great deal of his free time on so-called body-building.
Trabaja como albañil y dedica gran parte de su tiempo al culturismo.

If you are trying to build muscle, as in body building, you need to eat more protein to sustain muscle growth.
Si se desea desarrollar músculo, como en el culturismo, es necesario comer más proteína para mantener el crecimiento muscular.

In the trunk itself was a collection of body-building magazines, a scrapbook, a pair of handsprings that you squeezed to build up your grip, and two thirty-pound dumbbells.
En el interior había un montón de revistas de culturismo, un álbum de recortes, un par de esas pinzas para fortalecer la mano y dos mancuernas de algo más de diez kilos.

‘Too often we fall into using a language that puts them off, that creates a gulf.’ He looked like a bookworm who had done a body-building course;
«Caemos con demasiada frecuencia en un lenguaje que se rechaza, que crea un abismo». Parece un ratón de biblioteca que hubiera hecho un curso de culturismo;