what is it?
bodybuilding is the art of building muscle size, definition and strength by diet and the applicationof physical stress on the muscles through exercising with weights.

History of bodybuilding:

Bodybuilding got its first famous bodybuilder in the form of Eugen Sandow born Friedrich Müller in 1867.
With Sandow bodybuilding was born but Sandow orignally acquired his physique from being a gymnast, this was until he met promoter and strongman Oscard Attila who showed Sandow how to transform his gymnast’s build into a bodybuilder’s physique.

In 1898 Sandow started publishing the magazine Physical Culture and became one of the most famous men alive often appearing on postcards. Sandow died in 1925 after having a successful and pioneering career in bodybuilding he is now referred to as “The Father of Modern Bodybuilding”. Through out the first half of the 19th century bodybuilding was gaining more popularity. Bernarr Macfadden founder of the magazine Physical Development sponsored the first physique competition at Madison Square, New York in 1903. The posing techniques used in today’s bodybuilding competitions were developed at Macfadden’s contests.

The winner of Macfadden’s 1921 contest was no other than Charles Atlas. who was best known for a landmark advertising campaign featuring his name and likeness, which has been described as one of the most lasting and memorable ad campaigns of all time. According to Charles, he trained himself to develop his body from that of a “scrawny weakling”, eventually becoming the most popular muscleman of his day.The larger-than-life Charles Atlas handling the beach bully has never lost its appeal as a masculine icon.

1965 saw the most famous and charasmatic person ever to enter and promote the world of bodybuilding start his contest career by winning the Junior Mr. Europe contest. This person was no other than Arnold Schwarzenegger. Arnold was born in Austria in 1947 and by 1980 he had won his seventh Mr. Olympia title and dominated the world of bodybuilding. Schwarzenegger is the modern day version of Sandow and has achieved world wide fame and popularized the world of bodybuilding like no other. He left bodybuilding to pursue a career in movies and eventually became the governer of california but still promotes the sport through his own “Arnold Classic” contests.