{"id":3034,"date":"2021-05-11T03:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T16:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2dpoint.net\/?p=3034"},"modified":"2021-05-07T06:54:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T20:24:31","slug":"how-did-modern-bodybuilding-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2dpoint.net\/how-did-modern-bodybuilding-start\/","title":{"rendered":"How did modern bodybuilding start?"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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  1. In the 1800s, the term “Strongman” was used to refer to a circus-performer who entertained the audience by showing his strength through various activities.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. One such strongman was the German-born American Ludwig Durlacher, who began his career in 1863.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Over the next few years, he became famous and a personal trainer to the rich and famous of the era.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. He is believed to have been one of the first “personal trainers” in the world, and in 1886, he opened a gym in Brussels, Belgium.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. At this gym, he trained Eugen Sandow, a young strongman who later became known as the “Father of Modern Bodybuilding.”<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Eugen worked hard on this body, and by 1890 he had\u00a0<\/span>impresarios<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(people who organise concerts and stage performances) interested in “displaying” him at events.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. His performances, muscle-flexing, and {tooltip}feats of strength{end-text}Such as breaking the chain around his chest.{end-tooltip} fascinated the audience.<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. By 1894, he was a celebrity\u2014he featured in a three-part TV series,\u00a0<\/span>Sandow,\u00a0<\/span><\/em>and was a part of one of the first commercial motion picture exhibitions in history.<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. Soon, he was touring the world for his performances, and people began seeing him as a global fitness influencer.<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. Just as today’s wellness culture is booming because of long hours at work, stress, and screen-locked lives, Sandow flourished on the back of rapid urbanisation and industrialisation in the early 20th century.<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. By 1900, he had opened Institutes of Physical Culture, launched a fitness journal, published books, sold branded merchandise, including a body-rub called Sandow’s Concentrated Embrocation.<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. In 1901, he organised and judged (alongside author Arthur Conan Doyle) what is believed to be the world’s first major bodybuilding competition in London.<\/span><\/li>\n
  13. Over the next few years, the bodybuilding contests grew in number and size, and soon, Mr. XXXs (region, state, city, etc.) were happening in different parts of the world.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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