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Eugen Sandow, The Perfect Man
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The Strongest man in the world!
Eugen Sandow, The Ideal Man The Strongest man on the globe!
WelcomeTo the Eugen Sandow internet site! Classic strongman teaching. Why Eugen Sandow? When I fist read his out of print books from over a hundred years ago I was shocked and amazed. He actually found the special trick to strength and health! In a time when strongmen were large blubbery giants, he was lean, well defined, well proportioned. He was actually the strongest man on earth in his time. He was called the "The Ideal man and The Strongest man on the globe". As a young man he modeled the ancient Greeks from the works of the aged masters in sculpture and painting of Greek gods and strongmen. He had a goal and he pursued it. He used the latest mind power and will power methods available.
Quote from "His Story" at the bottom of the page. Tutorial guide NOW ACCESSIBLE "The Science of Strength", classic strongman teaching, a programme of physical culture. All natural, no drugs, no groth hormones, no artificial testosterone; only daily specialized teaching principals of the 1880’s. Eugen Sandow's classic teaching techniques! In his day he was the the majority of famous strongman on the globe! Sandow promoted health and fitness for guys and females as the cure for modern man ills. Medical experts said he was the " regarding the the majority of perfectly developed specimen of a guy I've ever seen." He was perfect in muscle size, definition, symmetry and proportion. In 1889 he defeated Charles Sampson, then the strongest man on earth, who could lift 2,240 Lbs. He won the money prize, and became the strongest man on earth.
Below video Clip: Sandow, the modern Hercules, These flexing moves are essentially exercises. One of his teaching techniques was to tighten muscles for a period of time then to totally relax. His Story: How I became a strong man; When the life-story of, say a poet is being written, the writer usually tells how at an incredibly early age he developed sign of genius and wrote rhymes nearly as quickly as he could talk. It would add to the picturesqueness of my story if I could recount wonderful tales of childish feats of strength; however alas for picturesqueness! I will strongly say that as a youngster I was anything however an infant Hercules. I was born at Konigsberg, Prussia, (Today, the city is named Kaliningrad, western Russia.) in 1867, and, though very fond of sports and athletics at school, was not by any way robust. As a matter of fact, I was so delicate that in 1877 I was taken down to Italy by my father in the hope that the change would build up my constitution. The desired result of the trip was achieved, however hardly in the expected manner. It was not by strolling under the blue Italian skies in the ozone-laden breezes from off the Mediterranean Sea., however by spending each available moment in the art galleries and museums of the good cities, that I discovered the special trick of health and strength. The works of the aged masters in sculpture and painting roused a thrill of half-envious admiration in me, and the more I studied them the more they fascinated me. Eventually I came home from Italy with fixed determination that, if teaching could do it, I'd become a strong man. Years passed, however, prior to It allowed me to accomplish my ambition. Then the idea struck me that there was something more than mere mechanical working of the muscles behind the perfectly developed bodies. I had seen. Such perfect development could not be reached by any amount of running or lifting or fighting! These old Greeks and Romans ought to have possessed a number of secret of which we moderns knew not a thing. Then I set to work to read and learn anatomy and medicine. I got a thorough information of the muscles and organs of the body, and, by dint of a good deal of time and thought and tough work, I devised a collection of exercises which would treat all the 400 muscles in turn, and so produced a harmonious result. Then the work began. Realizing that the brain governed the muscles, I brought the entire force of my will-power into work, and kept at it day after day. The result was magical. I grew strong rapidly and surely, and came to the conclusion that my life's work was to train men the benefits - nay the necessity - of Physical Culture. - Eugen Sandow
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