man is Siegmund Klein that best represents the transition between the first golden age of modern Strongman and bodybuilding. Born in 1902 in Germany as a child his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio. As a young man interested in the world of strength intimately related to the image of his father, at 17 he began training with his first set of bar with 100 lbs (45 kilos approx.). With the evolution of his training, he quickly began appearing in magazines of the time in presentations where it poses to his routine and lifting and always interested in improving their skills used their ingenuity to develop equipment that in many cases were inspired modern machines. Having married the daughter of Professor Attila, Grace, after the death of Attila, Klein decided to take over the Gym Teacher located in New York, with its new name Siegmund Klein's Studio of Physical Culture. In addition to writing in their own magazine Klein Bell's, in 1930 began writing for the Strength and Health Magazine. Icon of a new era in relation to fitness, gym was carefully fitted and among its publications can highlight the "bar Bodybuilding Course" which lists, explains and photographic material presented on exercises with bar and a section for dumbbells . Among other instruments created by one of the most striking is what might be called the predecessor of Lying leg curl. 
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Finally in 1987 with a career more than important for the world of strength and bodybuilding, Siegmund Klein dies, but only physically, because his legacy is impossible to ignore.
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specific Bibliography:
Siegmund Klein: featuring 2006 Joe Weider's bodybuilding Hall of Fame inductee
Flex, April, 2006 by Joe Roark
Flex, April, 2006 by Joe Roark
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