As society makes astonishing technological advances to make people’s lives easier, these advances also make their lives harder physiologically. Natural, inert movement patterns, such as simply squatting as a baby would squat to pick up a toy, are forgotten at an early age. Everyone’s parents, grandparents, aunts, or uncles have knee and back problems. Obesity has steadily climbed as one of the most prevalent issues in America. Elders often complain of how the younger generations, who tend to prefer electronic entertainment, rarely take part in rigorous outdoor labor. Although we do not instantly see the adverse effects of modern convenience, people have become increasingly sedentary and has cost us our physical well-being. We live in an age
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The Greeks recognize how strengthening their bodies while staying mobile crucially impacted their performance and physical capabilities. Milon of Croton, a renowned Olympic wrestler, “may have been the first to employ the approach to weight training now known as progressive increased resistance” (Zumerchik 549). According to legend, Milon carried a baby calf uphill over his shoulder everyday. He grew stronger as the calf grew heavier; as a result, many people accredit Milon as the father of weightlifting and “progressive overloading”, one of the foundational principles of strength training. These principles have been used by athletes and sportsmen since the very first Olympic games to achieve their physical limit to compete against others in everything from running, swimming, and climbing to wrestling, pitching, and …show more content…
Rather than solely focusing on raw power and strength, he ventured out and began to idealize the sculpted statues of ancient Greek heroes and gods, and utilized them as a guideline for his physical proportions. For the first time since the Grecian empire, the strongest man was also the healthiest man. Sandow, with “the beauty and symmetry of his muscular development”, brought upon a new era of strength training, a healthy and widely accepted philosophy of recreation and fitness known as bodybuilding (Schwarzenegger 4).The likes of George Hackenschmidt, Arthur Saxon, and Hermann Goerner soon followed suit of Sandow’s Grecian statuesque physique with each establishing a new idea in the grand scheme of achieving physical greatness. Charles Atlas, a bodybuilder who many grandparents and great-grandparents of today’s generations will definitely remember, showed the younger underweight boys how to grow stronger and build muscle to achieve their personal goals with his popular catchphrase “Hey skinny, your ribs are showing!” (Schwarzenegger 11). One cannot deny the influence of bodybuilding on the health and fitness industry and also when discussing strength training and weightlifting as it has popularized and immortalized its role of improving health and physical
The Greeks recognize how strengthening their bodies while staying mobile crucially impacted their performance and physical capabilities. Milon of Croton, a renowned Olympic wrestler, “may have been the first to employ the approach to weight training now known as progressive increased resistance” (Zumerchik 549). According to legend, Milon carried a baby calf uphill over his shoulder everyday. He grew stronger as the calf grew heavier; as a result, many people accredit Milon as the father of weightlifting and “progressive overloading”, one of the foundational principles of strength training. These principles have been used by athletes and sportsmen since the very first Olympic games to achieve their physical limit to compete against others in everything from running, swimming, and climbing to wrestling, pitching, and …show more content…
Rather than solely focusing on raw power and strength, he ventured out and began to idealize the sculpted statues of ancient Greek heroes and gods, and utilized them as a guideline for his physical proportions. For the first time since the Grecian empire, the strongest man was also the healthiest man. Sandow, with “the beauty and symmetry of his muscular development”, brought upon a new era of strength training, a healthy and widely accepted philosophy of recreation and fitness known as bodybuilding (Schwarzenegger 4).The likes of George Hackenschmidt, Arthur Saxon, and Hermann Goerner soon followed suit of Sandow’s Grecian statuesque physique with each establishing a new idea in the grand scheme of achieving physical greatness. Charles Atlas, a bodybuilder who many grandparents and great-grandparents of today’s generations will definitely remember, showed the younger underweight boys how to grow stronger and build muscle to achieve their personal goals with his popular catchphrase “Hey skinny, your ribs are showing!” (Schwarzenegger 11). One cannot deny the influence of bodybuilding on the health and fitness industry and also when discussing strength training and weightlifting as it has popularized and immortalized its role of improving health and physical