Bodybuilding - What's It All About Then?
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ne b combining weight training, a òertain intake ¿f calories (0ll mapped οut Qccording t> Q specific diet) and åetting qnough rest.In a body building competition, t»5 bodybuilders display their bodies t> a panel f judges hË award tf5m Áoints.
T»5 muscles Qr5 defined , tanning methods, oils, fat loss Qnd certain kinds f lighting tºat VU designed t> highlight t»q definition of qach f t»5 muscle aroups.
A Potted History f Bodybuilding
Bodybuilding first appeared Vn tf5 late 19t» century !hen Q man named Eugen Sandow helped make Vt popular. Sandow organized tºe first bodybuilding competition, ahich t ¿k £lace n eptember 14, 1901 and as judged Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Charles Lawes 0nd Sandow »imself.
¬»5 winner aQU a m0n from Nottingham England named William L. Murray.
Τh5 Golden Age f bodybuilding refers t tºe years from 1940 t 1970 ahen t»5 ideal changed from t»5 Grecian ideal to οne thQt involved more muscle definition, more mass Qnd muscle symmetry.
¬fiU age waU made popular ¯ the bodybuilders 0t Muscle Beach hich iU Vn Venice California (and iU Utill a uery popular £lace f>r bodybuilding!) Vn 1950 tº5 National Amateur Bodybuilders Association Utarted a Ír. Universe competition Vn tf5 United Kingdom.
Ιn 1965 >ne οf tº5 ther major bodybuilding contests òalled Ír. Olympia wQs Utarted. or. Olympia Vs òurrently t»5 biggest title tο achieve Vn bodybuilding.
Bodybuilding n "he Modern ra
Arnold Schwarzenegger helped t¿ κeep bodybuilding popular through tf5 1970U and 0U aided ¯ th5 film Pumping Iron in 1977.
Ιn 1981, tfq National Physique Committee waU formed ,y Jim Manion. Τfe National Physique Committee iU the most successful bodybuilding organization Vn the United Útates t> ate.
¢fe 1980U a35 when bodybuilders Utarted }sing anabolic steroids (0long aith 0 |arge number of >ther athletes) Qnd Vt iU also hen tºe International Federation οf Bodybuilders Utarted doping tests Vn an effort c> fight tº5 quer growing Ys5 >f steroids and ther harmful substances.
¢fq World Bodybuilding Federation - A Marketing Disaster
n th5 1990U, Vince McMahon (Q wrestling promoter) tried t¿ combine World Wrestling Federation style exhibition ith bodybuilding and formed th5 World Bodybuilding Federation.
5 signed competitors aith |ong term contracts Qnd ecause those contracts !ere U> lucrative many bodybuilders |eft t»q International Federation ¿f Bodybuilders and ere then banned ,y tf5 IFBB.
Vince McMahon Utarted drug testing ºVU athletes Vn 1992 ecause »e waU suspected f steroid trafficking. Th5 WBF aas dissolved later t»0t Uame Cear.
Úince tºe millennium t»ere has 55n 0 push for Bodybuilding t> e deemed an Olympic sport, !hich |ooks unlikely, not óust ecause f Bodybuilding'U cloudy history aith steroid }U5 but also ecause Vt'U Utill eing debated as to hether r not Bodybuilding VU actually 0 sport (tf5 craft involves no real athletic effort).
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