As a sport, bodybuilding goes all the way from the 12th century in India, where we find the first training techniques and bodybuilding specific nutrition. In 1500, India, bodybuilding had become a national pastime and people from around the world has also begun the practice and use stone and wood to create the weight first, thus giving rise to the essence of bodybuilding is weightlifting.
Among the general public, bodybuilding first recognized as a popular sport for commercial purposes in the 1800s with the introduction of strongmen like Eugene Sandow. National and international expertise began to take place by the 1900s. Sandow was one of the figureheads of the movement beginning bodybuilding and was known as the father of bodybuilding. He consistently pushed his ideas and theories on bodybuilding and fitness in the world through exhibitions, personal appearance and his breakthrough magazine, Physical Culture.
It was the persistent efforts of Sandow that led to the incorporation of weightlifting Olympic Games Olympic Games in Athens in 1896. In 1904, Sandow was elected judge of honor at a major bodybuilding event held at the Royal Albert Hall in London, which attracted over 2000 people to see.
The sport became more popular and profitable business in the years 1920 with newcomers like Charles Atlas coming on the scene. Who does not remember their ads appeared in magazines, comic books and newspapers through the world? Remember, the bully Kicking Sand in Your Face? This was the first bodybuilding course I bought the mid-seventies. The manufacture of dumbbells and bars began to gain momentum worldwide equipment and new innovations in training, nutrition and exercise more each year.
Bodybuilding developed a cult of the forties to the seventies with movies like Hercules with the incredible Steve Reeves, as well as the popular series of Tarzan films was interpreted by the actors weight the most diverse. Some notables this period were Joe Gold, founder of Gold's Gym and World Gym franchises, Harold Zinkin, twice President John Grimek America, Great Britain and Reg Park. Bodybuilding began to set itself apart from weightlifting and became even more popular. The seventies saw the introduction a young bodybuilder who became an icon of pop and a family name around the world, Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has used his talent and charisma, with a physicist never seen before to become the best point man in the world by the Guinness Book of Records.
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