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. 
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