| Body building is the process of making the most out of | | | | Arnold Schwarzenegger helped to keep bodybuilding |
| what is called "muscle hypertrophy." It is done by | | | | popular through the 1970s and was aided by the film |
| combining weight training, a certain intake of calories (all | | | | Pumping Iron in 1977. |
| mapped out according to a specific diet) and getting | | | | In 1981, the National Physique Committee was formed |
| enough rest. | | | | by Jim Manion. The National Physique Committee is the |
| In a body building competition, the bodybuilders display | | | | most successful bodybuilding organization in the United |
| their bodies to a panel of judges who award them | | | | States to date. |
| points. The muscles are defined by tanning methods, | | | | The 1980s are when bodybuilders started using |
| oils, fat loss and certain kinds of lighting that is designed | | | | anabolic steroids (along with a large number of other |
| to highlight the definition of each of the muscle groups. | | | | athletes) and it is also when the International Federation |
| A Potted History of Bodybuilding | | | | of Bodybuilders started doping tests in an effort co |
| Bodybuilding first appeared in the late 19th century | | | | fight the ever growing use of steroids and other |
| when a man named Eugen Sandow helped make it | | | | harmful substances. |
| popular. Sandow organized the first bodybuilding | | | | The World Bodybuilding Federation - A Marketing |
| competition, which took place on September 14, 1901 | | | | Disaster |
| and was judged by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir | | | | In the 1990s, Vince McMahon (a wrestling promoter) |
| Charles Lawes and Sandow himself. | | | | tried to combine World Wrestling Federation style |
| The winner was a man from Nottingham England | | | | exhibition with bodybuilding and formed the World |
| named William L. Murray. | | | | Bodybuilding Federation. |
| The Golden Age of bodybuilding refers to the years | | | | He signed competitors with long term contracts and |
| from 1940 to 1970 when the ideal changed from the | | | | because those contracts were so lucrative many |
| Grecian ideal to one that involved more muscle | | | | bodybuilders left the International Federation of |
| definition, more mass and muscle symmetry. | | | | Bodybuilders and were then banned by the IFBB. |
| This age was made popular by the bodybuilders at | | | | Vince McMahon started drug testing his athletes in |
| Muscle Beach which is in Venice California (and is still a | | | | 1992 because he was suspected of steroid trafficking. |
| very popular place for bodybuilding!) in 1950 the | | | | The WBF was dissolved later that same year. |
| National Amateur Bodybuilders Association started a | | | | Since the millennium there has been a push for |
| Mr. Universe competition in the United Kingdom. | | | | Bodybuilding to be deemed an Olympic sport, which |
| In 1965 one of the other major bodybuilding contests | | | | looks unlikely, not just because of Bodybuilding's cloudy |
| called Mr. Olympia was started. Mr. Olympia is currently | | | | history with steroid use but also because it's still being |
| the biggest title to achieve in bodybuilding. | | | | debated as to whether or not Bodybuilding is actually a |
| Bodybuilding In The Modern Era | | | | sport (the craft involves no real athletic effort). |