Thursday, August 30, 2007

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Siegmund Klein Professor Attila Bobby

Professor Louis Attila was born in Germany in 1844 and was one of the most important men in the history of strength sports and bodybuilding. Not only was coach and a strongman Sandow with a remarkable level of strength, but also the one who developed the classic move that would mark the beginning of the uprising, the Bent Press. It is in this movement where we can say that was the first to do it with more than 90 kilos. Another of his pupils was Bobby Pandour. Among his other inventions can be highlighted, the classic "globe barbell" (seen on the statue of Sandow in Olympia) and the Roman bank. In 1893 Attila travels to North America and in 1894 opened "The New York Studio, gym which will then be up to 1975 by Siegmund Klein. The importance of Professor Attila lies not only in having been the inspiration for great strongmans who were later trained, but also in being an innovator in the area of \u200b\u200btraining and possibilities. "The Proffesor" was a turning point in the history of strength and fitness and has therefore to be valued and remembered as a great one.

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Pandour


Kurcharczyk Wladyslaw, born in Poland in 1876. Bobby Pandour, so renamed by Professor Attila, was what could be call the exception to the rule in relation to his training and his time. Outstanding gymnast, should his physical training with low weights (using dumbbells 10 lbs / 4.5 kilos), a muscular tension exercises and calisthenics. At first glance indicates that genetics was in possession of a privilege. The significant development of their quadriceps mainly because his brother was carrying through a ladder as quickly as possible, this being his only year with a moderately heavy load. With approximately 1.68 m, weighing 72 kilos, an impressive muscle quality, and outstanding abdominal development, Pandour was known for its beautiful posing routine and highly demanded by the artists as a model. In 1915 he retired and lives in New York after an accident in one of his performances in American Vaudeville and finally in 1920 at age 44 dies, immortalizing his image in the history of bodybuilding.

Monday, August 27, 2007

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Hackenschmidt

The "Russian Leon," as they used to be called, was born in Estonia in 1878. A dedicated man too, like the giants set out above, the training and its relationship to health. Being better known as Greco-Roman wrestler, was also a Strongman and a pioneer in the field of surveying. Among his most prominent inventions related to weight training, you can find the famous barbell hack squat, which could be described as a dead weight from the back. This movement has the advantage of attacking the quadriceps with minimal impact on the lumbar conventional squat and can also handle heavy loads.

with 1.75 and 99 kilos of body weight, possessed a very physical muscularizado quadriceps and development worthy of a champion. Being a fighter became pesopesado crowned world champion in 1905 in New York. With over 3000 fight win under his belt, he was finally defeated in 1908 by Frank Gotch twice, being in the final with a knee injury. Finally, after retiring, he began to write books where usher all his knowledge and experience. Within the scope of the surveys was also a promoter of Plano Press in your workouts. Highly related to their cult of healthy living, Hackenschmidt died in 1968 at age 89.

Sunday, August 26, 2007

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Georg Arthur Saxon

Contemporary Sandow, Arthur Saxon, born in 1878, not only was the strongest man of his time, even surpassing himself in the art Sandow BENT PRESS , but also was a man interested in weight training and its possibilities. Owner of an impressive body and a colossal force, its circus acts with his brothers were widely recognized, like his books where he turned his knowledge and experience. Regarding the above motion, Saxon was able to do with 385 lbs. which are approximately 175 kilos. Germano
birth, Arthur and his two brothers travel to U.S.. UU. in 1909 to present his show in New York. Saxon not only possessed impressive levels of force but also a muscular quality of the artist's own iron. After participating in the First World War can not recover from the ravages of war, died in 1921 a victim of pneumonia. Among his books are mentioned, for example "The Development of physical power "(the development of physical power), 1905.

In its most prominent movements in addition to the bent press can be name the military press, boot, and a movement called Two Hands Anyhow it is primarily a press bent but with the addition that once the bar is on the performer's head, it looks as if the photo above ( using a kettlebell) a new element to load through a push to end with a press, placing both weights on the head in a position straight. In this movement could load 448 lbs Saxon, what about nearly 200 kilos over the head.

Saturday, August 25, 2007

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If we are to talk about the history of force, and not begin with the man whose name is now inseparable from the representation of victory in the cultural life, and strength training, Eugene Sandow ( Friederich Wilhelm Mueller). Born in Prussia in the late nineteenth century (1867-1925) and a fervent admiration for the ideals of beauty and symmetry that had the ancient Greco-Roman sculptures, he decided, as a work of art is trying to model your body keeping these ideals and admiration is why it is considered the father of modern bodybuilding. His ideas on training led him to write many books where denotes that in addition to seeking the physical beauty, was a scholar of force and a "strongman" with all the letters. This is shown not only in treaties, but also in the implementation of those old school moves as presses an arm bar. Demonstrated in a shot at British and American Strongmans a movement called BENT PRESS where he could lift 271 lbs, about 120 kilos with one arm. The end of the movement corresponds to the last part of the movement presented in this lithograph of the period.






The SandowLithograph - 1894Library of Congress Collection




Today
much those movements are being bailed out by its great versatility in strength training, strength and fitness by several coaches as Chad Waterbury, Mike Mahler, among others, but these movements are trademarks in the history of Russian training. Continuing Sandow, being a strongman, his idea about training was mainly based on heavy lifting and organized as a weight / reps.

Eugene Sandow was an artist, a scholar of muscle training, and a lover strongman strength, symmetry and body as art. For all these reasons and because of its importance in the spread of a lifestyle that is so like what lovers of iron as we seek, I think, deserves to be the one to represent in the form of a bronze statue, the triumph of bodybuilders the biggest global event of bodybuilding, the Mr. Olympia.