Bodybuilding’s Roots and Development

Bodybuilding can be defined as the shaping of the human body into a completely enhanced potential, developing muscles to unbelievable size and proportioning each part of the body going through and evolution, that creates an art of the body. This sport was introduced in the early 1890’s as an amusement for the audience; as a sport it was not perceived seriously since no bodybuilder at the time had much of a difference of size with regular humans. The sport was not taken critically due to the deficiency of knowledge of weight training as well as dieting. The main focus in the 1890’s in bodybuilding competitions mainly relied on strength, which out of all contestants possessed the furthermost strength. As society evolved over the years, bodybuilding was also emerging with knowledge, technology and awareness of this particular sport. Judges on the sport had to be stricter in terms of evaluating each contestant. Qualities such as symmetry and aesthetics were essential traits that each bodybuilder had to present. The winner was determined by adding scores for symmetry and aesthetics and the bodybuilder who had the out most amazing size, proportion was most likely going to be the champion. The way the bodybuilder posed and presented himself also determined the winning candidate. As the years past, bodybuilder became the sensation to various society groups, as bodybuilders were becoming superior in size and had distinguished unnoticeable bodies. Bodybuilding started growing as a culture, as another trend that impacted the eyes of society; bodybuilding was taking its birth to the Fitness industry. Bodybuilder contestants had to be in the most preeminent possible physical shape to increase their chances of winning. The further they trained ...

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