Fitness Bodybuilding

The development of strength and physical prowess has always been a thing of interest for humans.

A proportionate and well-defined muscular development however, is a relatively recent goal people have set for themselves.

In the middle ages, the showing of the human body used to be regarded as some sort of sin, and people belonging to a higher social class used to go to great lengths to try to avoid any bare skin other than that on the face showing.

Starting with the beginning of the 19th century though, a new interest was starting to arise towards the human physique. This is about the time that the first “strongmen” appeared. They were usually sideshow attractions on county fairs and belonged to traveling circus troops. The accent was on the feats they could perform, and much less on the actual physique behind those feats of strength.

As living standards kept on rising, an interest in nutrition and physical development started to gradually gain ground too. Nutrition was the factor that proved to be decisive in the coming to existence of the sport of bodybuilding as we know it today.

To this very day, nutrition is one of the most import factors in the development of a quality physique. Research (mostly by trial-and-error) in exercise techniques has also come leaps and bounds, form the county-fair strongmen to today’s modern bodybuilder.