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Historical Appendix: "Louis Cyr"

This time, I will realize it is a kind of historical appendix, where I will go back in time to write about the story of a man , "the strongest in history," say Ben Weider, Louis Cyr. In search of representatives in the history of bodybuilding and strength, I omitted to Cyr almost arbitrarily, and was Alejandro Yebra, iberosudamericano champion, Argentina, (in my opinion one of the best bodybuilders Argentina), who some time ago I noted the absence Louis Cyr in what I try to be a brief introduction to the history of bodybuilding (basically) and strength sports, and it is true, can not be absent Cyr.

Cyprien-Noé Cyr, son of a French-Canadian family, was born October 11, 1863 in St. Cyprien in Napierville, near Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is about 12 when he started to work in a kind of mill and a farm, where power and abilities drew the attention of other workers. In relation to his family, his mother, with 120 kilos, had a height of approximately 1.85 meters and her father, with 118 kilos, an impressive 1.92 meters tall. Despite discussions about its proportions, one can say that Cyr did not inherit the height his mother and grandfather, but rather, with an average height of 1.75 to 1.78, weighed about 132 kilos. On the paternal side, his grandfather Pierre Cyr, was also a Strongman, Cyr incentive also during his youth. Is 17 years old when he began his career as Strongman, at 18 he enters his first contest in which he raised a horse from the ground successfully. Cyr is in 1882 when he married a girl named Melina Courtois, obtaining at that time working as a lumberjack but later became a policeman in 1883. The troupe Cyr, was the name of his own show, where he produced impressive demonstrations of strength and where it began to be more known for his work with the public and his skill as a man who would be the strongest of Canada. In 1885 he quit his job as a police officer and began a tour with a band together with other athletes (tour organized by Gustave Lambert). In 1886 Cyr wins the title of "Canada's Strongest Man", beating David Michaud (who was then the strongest man in the country) in a match that up with one hand Cyr bar 98 kilos and 1075 kilos on his back. In 1888 Cyr, buy a tavern where he also acts of force for their clients. But his aim was to demonstrate his strength against the world and be the strongest man. Throughout his life was involved in several shows of Vaudeville and toured Canada, United States and in Europe where not having found a rival who wants to challenge him and then with a reputation second to none, Louis Cyr leaves no doubt about who was the strongest man in the world.

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In 1912, at age 49 Louis Cyr died due to what is currently known as chronic nephritis. Despite being an athlete's strength was not careful with the amount of food ingested and hence its weight, and this led to an unhealthy situation for which he had to leave the environment of competition and demonstrations force in 1900. Undoubtedly, Cyr was an extremely important person in the history of force and his country, where today the reputation of French-Canadian lifters is flawless. A district of Montreal is named in honor of Louis Cyr. Today there is a statue of Cyr at the Place des Hommes-Forts "and" the Musée de la Civilisation "in the city of Quebec.

by Robert Pelletier

Among his most famous acts of force can be noted for having built a platform on his back with 18 people, lifting a finger, if one finger 227 kilos. Cyr was also broke the record of Sandow lifting in bent press 124 kilos. But one of his most famous acts undoubtedly was to control the pull of four horses, two on each side clinging to his arms.

Additional Bibliography: Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

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Vince Gironda "The Iron Guru Jack LaLanne

Vince Gironda was born on November 9, 1917 in Bronx, New York, moving from very young to Los Angeles where his father gets a job as stuntman in the film classic Ben Hur. Is at 22 when he started weight training inspired by a photo of John Grimek, in search of a more muscular body and more physical. His first eight months Training took place in the YMCA gym, and then continued his training at the Easton Brothers' gym. It is the latter where the guru of iron begins his career as a coach and then opened in North Hollywood's classic Vince's Gym in 1948. Experimenter and intellectual, Vince starts to make his own line of thought as to training and nutrition. Controversial to this day, I always try to distinguish how their training must address a person as your goal is devoted to bodybuilding or power lifting. With a vision that could be called art of bodybuilding, not advocating the extreme development but vascular bodies, symmetrical and defined.

As the athlete nutrition could say that was the forerunner of what today is known as a diet low in carbohydrates, giving a value more than important to the quality of food and a plenty of carefully selected supplements. It is he who is credited with saying that bodybuilding is 85 percent nutrition. Turning to training, popularized Gironde impressive flow periods to which different modifications were performed to optimize the work done. Among the array can be named, the Sissy squat, the Dips style bar V Gironde, the sternal Chin, The Press to the neck, squat "thight" (which Gironda's version of the front squat that has 3 submovements), the squat Roman Bank, The Hack squat (in two versions, including introduction of machine Hack) Various versions of the low-pulley rowing. Gironde Arsenal is almost infinite, and each of their movements and characteristics and have had a reason. "It's honest work that counts" Gironda said that he believed more in training with short rest and a high workload but in a limited time. That is, much of what today are Gironde had exposed the foundations of what is called "training of accumulation of fatigue." With a character often criticized, Vince Gironda, had no in his gym classic squat rack for this exercise because disowned by their ability to increase the size of the buttock in man (except in certain cases such as Sergio Oliva). Never worried about the weight to use, but more than anything in the training itself, the technique, rest periods and volume of work, to note that bodybuilding is not just heavy lifting, why is awarded phrase "we are bodybuilders, weightlifters no" when asked at his gym as raised in some exercise.

already into the early 50's, was recognized as a great trainer of bodybuilders and movie stars. But with the victory of one of his most memorable pupils, Larry Scott, who in 1965 in the recent competition at the time MR. OLYMPIA, he defeated Chuck Sipes and Harold Poole. Throughout his career, Vince Gironda wrote training manuals, publications in journals and Musclemag IRONMAN, the latter being the hand of Robert Kennedy, who collaborated on the publication of his classic book The Wild Physique. " Being a supporter of natural supplementation, wrote manuals on nutrition, supplementation and then began developing his own line of exclusive supplements Vince's Gym. Suffice it to say, except for therapeutic purposes, was totally against the use of steroids. Among his other outstanding pupil is MOHAMED MAKKAWY. Finally in 1995, Vince, in complete disagreement with the direction being taken by the bodybuilding, fitness center closes its one of the most prominent clubs of the very history of bodybuilding. Two years after the Iron Guru leaves the physical plane is transformed into one of the legends of bodybuilding, still controversial, still inspiring, and in my humble opinion, one of the greatest coaches of all time bodybuilding.

Further reading: http://www.girondabodybuilding.com/ - http://www.ironguru.com/