As early as ancient Greece, athletes used weightlifting to exercise, and got a strong and fit figure. These bodybuilding athletes were "recorded" by sculptors and have survived to this day. This is the early bud of bodybuilding.
In the late 19th century, Eugene Shandao, a German, pioneered the display of human beauty through various postures, and laid the foundation for the development of modern bodybuilding, so he was recognized as "the founder of international bodybuilding" and "the first bodybuilder in the world"
It is generally believed that the "early" period of bodybuilding was from 188 to 193.
At the end of 18th century, the great German sportsman Shandao gave a sensational performance in London Concert Hall. His developed muscles and harmonious figure, like a perfect artistic statue, fascinated thousands of audiences, thus creating a precedent for bodybuilding.
In modern times, modern bodybuilding is characterized by showing the beauty of the human body. Men's bodybuilding standards are: tall and strong, well-developed and balanced muscles, wide shoulders and round arms, abundant physical strength and healthy physique. Women's bodybuilding standards are: symmetrical figure, elegant posture, full chest, round shoulders and thin waist, smooth and moist skin color, etc. Bodybuilding should be combined with spiritual beauty. With a healthy and beautiful mind, you can have a healthy and beautiful mood, a healthy and beautiful gesture and a healthy and beautiful behavior. Only with a beautiful mind can you have real bodybuilding.
bodybuilding as a sport, that is, competitive bodybuilding, means that bodybuilders show their bodies to the jury, and the jury will score them according to the degree to which their appearance conforms to aesthetics. Muscle is displayed by reducing fat, applying oil, tanning the skin (or tanning oil), and combining with the live lighting effect to make the outline of muscle group clearer. Famous bodybuilders include Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dorian Yates, Lou Ferrigno, Franco Columbu, Frank Zane, Lee Haney, Ronnie Coleman, Jay Cutler and Dexter Jackson.
In the 192s, influential monographs such as Muscle Development Law and Strength Secret confirmed the role of bodybuilding in theory. Since 193s, bodybuilding performance has gradually become a competitive competition in some European and American countries, and it has spread to all parts of the world. In the early 194s, the Canadian Wade brothers traveled around more than 9 countries and regions to promote bodybuilding. In 1946, they founded the International Bodybuilding Federation, and agreed on and implemented the organization, rules, judges and awards of international bodybuilding competitions.
Many countries have joined the International Bodybuilding Federation.
bodybuilding (the art of showing muscles) did not really appear before the 19th century. It was not until the late 19th century that the Prussian Eugen Sandow began to popularize this sport. He is called "the father of modern bodybuilding". Because he allows the audience to appreciate his physique in the "muscle show", he is known as the pioneer of this sport. Although the audience was shocked to see a perfect figure, people usually show their bodies as part of strength display and wrestling competition. Shandao, through his agent Florenz Ziegfeld, built a stage around these exhibitions and competitions, and achieved great success. After that, he founded many businesses by his own reputation, and he was one of the first representatives who took his personal name as a commercial brand. Subsequently, his popularity continued to increase, and he invented and sold the first fitness equipment (mechanized dumbbells, spring tensioners and tension belts) on a large scale.
Shandao strongly advocated "Greek aesthetics" (this aesthetic standard means that a perfect physique should mathematically conform to the size ratio in ancient Greek and Roman human statues). In the early days, people often used this standard to measure whether the physique is perfect, which is also the standard for the mountain road to shape his own body. On September 14th, 191, Shandao organized the first bodybuilding competition called "Great Competition", which was held in the Royal Albert Hall in London, England. The competition was judged by Yamato himself, Sir Charles Lawes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The competition was so successful that the admission tickets were sold out that hundreds of sports enthusiasts could only watch and sigh from the sidelines. The trophy finally awarded to the winner is a bronze statue of Yamato himself, which was completed by the sculptor Frederick Pomeroy. The winner of the competition is William L. Murray from Nottingham, England. The top bodybuilding competition today is "Mr. Olympia". Since 1977, the winner's trophy has been the bronze statue of Yamato himself, which is exactly the same as the first bodybuilding competition in history.
On January 16th, 194, the first large-scale bodybuilding competition was held in Madison Square, new york, USA. The winner was Al Treloar, who won the title of "the most perfect man in the world". Treloar won a prize of $1,. This was an expensive amount at that time. Two weeks later, Thomas Edison made a movie of Al Trelawney's body modeling. In the previous years, Edison also made two movies for the mountain road, which was the first record of making bodybuilding into a movie. In the early 2th century, Bernarr mcphee and Charles Atlas continued to spread bodybuilding to the world. Alois P. Swoboda was a pioneer of early American bodybuilding, and Charles Atlas praised him for saying that "everything I know was learned from Charles Atlas".
Other famous bodybuilders in the early history before 193 include: Earle Liederman (who was the author of some of the earliest bodybuilding instructions), Seigmund Breitbart (a famous Jewish bodybuilder), Georg Hackenschmidt, George F. Jowett, Maxick (pioneer of body modeling), Monte Saldo, Launceston Elliot, Sig Klein, Staff Sergeant Alfred Moss, Joe Nordquist, Lionel Strongfort (Strongfortism, which is a combined theory covering training, diet and even daily hygiene), Gustav Fristensky (Czech champion) and Alan C. Mead (impressive muscle champion, although he used to be,