Body Building: The Basics

Although bodybuilding seems to be a modern-day activity, it has its ancient roots dug deep into Century 12 India, where first training methods and plans linked to the first bodybuilding emerged. In 300 years of bodybuilding has become a phenomenal success in India and people from all over the world followed their example. To help them in their attempts of bodybuilding people have created their first dumbbells and weight during this period. With the creation of the weight of the first weightlifting and bodybuilding found its element above all.

In the Western world bodybuilding came to be recognized as a major sport in the 1800s When bodybuilders like Eugene Sandow came to the forefront. By the beginning of the 1900s people felt an increasing need for the introduction of competition which would validate the hard work of those

who built their bodies. Accordingly, bodybuilding competitions, which have become such a an essential part of the overall regime today, saw the light of day. Sandow was one of ahead of the first movements of bodybuilding and was named the father of modern Bodybuilding. To ensure that his voice and his ideas about bodybuilding found its way to the people He made public appearances frequent exhibitions organized and, more importantly still, launched the Fitness Magazine pioneer "physical culture."

It was Sandow that finally prompted the authorities of the Olympic Games to include weightlifting as one of the events. Thanks to efforts of weightlifting came to become one of the main attractions of the Olympic Games in the year 1896. Even today, it is one of the most viewed events of the games.

With the arrival of bodybuilders such as Charles Atlas in the circuit of bodybuilding at the beginning It is 1900, sport has become even more widespread and lucrative. Quickly its legendary ads spread everywhere and deeply penetrated the deep psyche of all American men.Everyone wanted to be like him!

Soon more and more exercise equipment has started to gain popularity in the market. people were now getting aware of the manner in which they should be, how they should eat and the equipment that they must acquire in order to sculpt their bodies in shape. The fitness industry only now shape in the shape that we are currently experiencing.

With the emergence of the Tarzan films Hercules between 50 and 70 Bodybuilding has become something of a rage. Everyone was now looking forward to go and get a body

beautiful like Steve Reeves.

Cashing in on the cult of bodybuilding status was entrepreneurs such as Joe Gold (who found two, Gym and World Gym) and other gold.

Bodybuilding is now struggling to secede from weightlifting and become a sport by itself. In the 1970s yet another phenomenon by the name of Arnold bodybuilding

Schwarzenegger was to take the world by storm with his perfectly sculpted body. Later, he would enter the Guinness Book of Records as the best man in the world and so start a cult of sorts.