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"Physical Culture pure and simple
is the development along natural lines
of that wonderful combination of muscles
that the Creator has given to man and woman."
Eugen Sandow, "The Gospel of Strenght"
There is a very big confusion about bodybuilding, and the thoughts of the "normal" people about this sport are full of misunderstandings. Someone thinks that bodybuilding is a very modern discipline and other say that this sport is "of no use".
I don't want to talk about the "utility" of bodybuilding. I only think that it's like the other sports. You can say, for example, that football is useful and baseball not. In my opinion, everyone can have a personal idea of this and other and more important questions of life.
The intention of this page, as you can see from the title, is not to speak about the philosophy of bodybuilding, but the history of this sport. Truly speaking, as you will see in chapter one, a very ancient sport, since the use of weights and the ideal of beauty followed by modern bodybuilders was known also by the Greeks more than three tousands of years ago.
You will see in chapter two how in the 19th century,
men like Hyppolite Triat and Eugen Sandow
built an extraordinary body with restricted knowledges in fact of training and
diet. In chapter three we will talk about bodybuilding in the first
years of 20th century, while in chapter four we will discuss the
evolution of this sport after the second war and about the
competition of NABBA Mr. Universe.
In chapter five, we will talk about the competition
of Mr. Olympia and the golden era of bodybuilding: the 60s and the
70s. In the next chapter we'll discuss the evolution of this sport in
the 80s, while the last chapter is dedicated to the 90s.
This site is best viewed in 800x600 resolution and in full screnn mode. To allow full screen mode, press F11 on Internet Explorer browser. The links in this history point to the glossar or to the gallery, while at the end of every section you can find a list of interesting websites related to the chapter.