Body Building - The History and Present Scenario

Body Building is the ways to sculpt or modify your body by transforming the fats in your body into large muscles. Building muscle is achieved through comprehensive muscle hypertrophy, or the scientific term that means the boost of muscle cells. There are a lot of ways to build your muscles; probably one of the most common and effective forms of body building is weight training. Weight training is one of the ways to improve the size and strength of the skeletal muscles by using assorted kinds of gym equipments such as barbells, weight machines, and dumbbells among others.
Some of the popular body builders are Arnold Schwarzenegger(my fav), Jay Cutler(2nd on my list), Ronnie Coleman(8 times winner) etc.
On left-Jay Cutler-he proved that if you work hard enough, and put enough laboratory-enhanced substances into your system, you too could own a limb that's freakishly bigger than your head.

Eugen Sandow - The father of modern bodybuilding, was the first who displayed his physique to a large number of audience. In those days bodies were displayed to communicate their strength. The audience response was so great that there was a musical film made inspired by Eugen Sandow. Whose role was played y Nat Pendleton.
The New York City - Madison Square Garden witnessed large scale bodybuilding competition on 16 Jan 1904. Al Treloar was declared the winner and was given $1000 as the cash prize. Two weeks later, a film was made on him by Thomas Edison.
World Bodybuilding Federation, in 1990 was created by Vince McMahon. Many of the IIFB stars were employed, but the venture never made it large. Due to the less money generated by it, McMahon was forced to put an end to it after two years, in 1992. The reason for their failure was also that due to the less number of people, repeated competitions took place, and soon interest was lost. Most of the times, it was won by Gary Strydom.
The IIFB in the early 2000's tried to make bodybuilding an Olympic sport. However it did not succeed as bodybuilding is not considered as a sport by some.

Left-Ronnie Coleman-8 times Mr. Olympia-known for his upper back and very developed pectorals-uses BSN supplements.

A person who has qualified in bodybuilding competitions and has earned a pro- card from IIFB. Professional bodybuilders stand a chance to compete at high level competitions such as Arnold Classic and New York Pro. Winner of these also the other good bodybuilders get a chance to compete for Mr. Olympia which is the highest title to be won in the entire field of bodybuilding.
Natural bodybuilding is another form of bodybuilding where the participants are regularly tested for the use of any illegal substances. It is mostly done by urine testing. Natural bodybuilding organizations banned the use of Anabolic steroids, Prohormone etc which is largely used by the professional bodybuilders. NANBF and NPA are a part of Natural bodybuilding organization.
Female Bodybuilding- the first true female bodybuilding competition was held in Ohio, in the year 1978. Basis of judgment was their muscularity. In 1980 the winner of the first Miss Olympia was Rachel McLish. This inspired many women and also a movie, in the year 1985 called Pumping Iron II.
Most body builders don't participate in any contest, common people just build around a good physique to have good confidence which is a very positive aspect and in fact the vast majority of bodybuilders also never compete, but body build for their own personal reasons. Body building nowadays have become a common trend for either show business, personal reasons, gain confidence, attract opposite sex or etc. So for better confidence having a better body is always a win-win situation. What would be your reason?

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