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Sandow was born in a Jewish family in KÃÆ'¶nigsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad), on April 2, 1867. His father was a German and his mother of Russian descent. Although his parents were born Jews, the family was Lutheran and wanted him to become a Lutheran minister. He left Prussia in 1885 to avoid military service and traveled throughout Europe, becoming a circus athlete and adopting Eugen Sandow as his stage name.
In Brussels he visited the gym of a fellow colleague, Ludwig Durlacher, better known by his stage name "Professor Attila". Durlacher recognized Sandow's potential, guided him, and in 1889 encouraged him to travel to London and take part in strong competition. Sandow easily defeated the defending champion and won instant fame and recognition of his strength. It launched him in his career as an athletic superstar. Soon he received requests from all over the UK for the show. Over the next four years, Sandow perfected his technique and made it a popular entertainment with impressive and extraordinary powers.
Florenz Ziegfeld wanted to show Sandow at the Columbus World Expo in 1893 in Chicago, but Ziegfeld knew that Maurice Grau had Sandow under contract. Grau wants $ 1,000 a week. Ziegfeld can not guarantee that much but agrees to pay 10 percent of gross receipts.
Ziegfeld found that the audience was more fascinated by Sandow's protruding muscles compared to the amount of weight he lifted, so Ziegfeld had Sandow moving in a pose which he called "muscle display performances"... and the legendary legend added this display in addition to doing his strength with barbell. He added chest-around-chest bleaching and other colored displays to Sandow's routine, and Sandow quickly became Ziegfeld's first star.
In 1894, Sandow was featured in a short series movie by Edison Studios. The film is only part of his acting and shows him flexing his muscles rather than performing a physical feat.
While the content of the film reflects the focus of the audience on its appearance, it utilizes the unique capacity of the new medium. The film theorists have attributed their appeal to the striking images of the detailed drawings moving in sync, like the example of the LumiÃÆ'¨re brothers Repas de bÃÆ' Â © bÃÆ'Â © Â in which the audience is reportedly more impressed by the movement of trees swaying in the background rather than events that occur in the foreground. In 1894, Sandow also appeared in the short Kinetoscope film which was part of the first commercial film exhibition in history.
In April of that year, Sandow gave one of his "muscle display performances" at the 1894 California Winter International Fair at Golden Gate Park at the "Vienna Prater" Theater.
While he is on tour in the United States, Sandow returns to England to marry Blanche Brooks, a girl from Manchester. Immediately, due to stress and poor health he returned permanently to recuperate.
He immediately re-stood, and opened the first of the Institutes of Physical Culture, where he taught methods of exercise, dietary habits and weight training. His ideas about physical fitness were novel at the time and had a tremendous impact. The Sandow Institute is an early gymnasium that is open to the public for practice. In 1898 he also founded a monthly magazine, originally titled Physical Culture and later renamed Sandow's Magazine of Physical Culture dedicated to all aspects of physical culture. This is accompanied by a series of books published between 1897 and 1904 - the latter that coined the term 'bodybuilding' in the title (as "body formation").
He works hard to improve sports equipment, and creates a variety of devices such as rubber strands for stretching and spring dumbbells to train the wrist. In 1900 William Bankier wrote Ideal Physical Culture where he challenged Sandow to join the weight lifting contest, wrestling, running and jumping. When Sandow did not accept his challenge, Bankier called him a coward, a liar and a liar.
In 1901, Sandow hosted the world's first premier bodybuilding competition at Royal Albert Hall London. The place was so full that people turned to the door. Three judges who led the contest were Sir Charles Lawes the sculptor, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle the author, and Sandow himself.
In 1906 he was able to buy a rent of 161 (formerly 61) Holland Park Avenue, thanks to a gift from an Indian businessman, Sir Dhunjibhoy Bomanji, whose health has improved dramatically after he adopted the Sandow regime. This luxurious fourth floor house - named Dhunjibhoy House after its donor - was home for 19 years.
He travels around the world with tours to diverse countries such as South Africa, India, Japan, Australia, New Zealand. At his own expense, from 1909 he provided training for recruitment candidates to the Territorial Army, to bring them to the fitness standards of entry, and did the same for volunteers for active service in World War I.
He was even appointed as a special instructor in the physical culture to King George V, who had followed his teachings, in 1911.
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The Idea Grecian
Sandow's physical resemblance found on classical Greek and Roman statues is not a coincidence, as he measures the statues in the museum and helps develop "The Ideal Grecian" as a formula for "perfect physical." Sandow builds his physique with the exact proportions of his Ideal Grecian, and is considered the father of modern bodybuilding, as one of the first athletes to deliberately develop his muscles to a predetermined dimension. In his books Strength and How to Get It and Sandow Physical Training System , Sandow provides specific recipes on weights and repetitions to achieve ideal proportions.
Personal life
Sandow married Blanche Brooks in 1896. They have two daughters, Helen and Lorraine. He was unfaithful to him at a later date, and he refused to mark his tomb.
Death
Sandow died at his home in Kensington, London, on October 14, 1925 from a newspaper that was announced as a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 58. It was allegedly brought in after trying hard, unaided, to lift his car out of a ditch after a road accident. two or three years earlier. However, without an autopsy, his death was certified as a result of aortic aneurysm.
Sandow is buried in an unmarked grave at Putney Vale Cemetery at the request of his wife, Blanche. In 2002, a tombstone and black marble plaque were added by admirer Sandow and author Thomas Manly. The writing (in gold letters) reads "Eugen Sandow, 1867-1925, Mr. Bodybuilder". In 2008, the tomb was purchased by Chris Davies, Sandow's great-grandson. Manly's belongings were replaced to commemorate Sandow's birthday that year and the new monument, a one and a half tonne pink sandstone monolith, was placed in its place. The stone, inscribed "SANDOW", is a reference to an ancient Greek burial monument called steles.
Legacy
Sandow befriends King George V, Thomas Edison, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and classical pianist Martinus Sieveking. He was portrayed by actor Nat Pendleton in the Academy Award-winning film The Great Ziegfeld (1936). In the third season episode The Venture Bros. titled "ORB," Sandow is described as a bodyguard of the grandfathers of the main character.
In the episode of One Step Beyond <"Quake," in which a waitress predicted the 1906 San Francisco earthquake just hours before it happened, Sandow (like Caruso) is called a 'guest at the Hotel'.
In recognition of his contribution to bodybuilding sport, the Sandowian bronze statue carved by Frederick Pomeroy has been presented to the contest winner of Mr. Olympia, the premier professional bodybuilding competition sponsored by the International Body of Bodybuilding, since 1977. This sculpture is simply known as "The Sandow".
In professional wrestling, Wilhelm Baumann of the Gold Dust Trio adopted the name of his ring as Billy Sandow in honor of Sandow. Nearly a century later, Damien Sandow will adopt his ring name in honor of Billy Sandow and, indirectly, Eugen Sandow as well.
In 2013, Eugen Sandow is portrayed by Canadian bodybuilder Dave Simard in the film Louis Cyr .
Sanders (London) a cold coffee drink named after Eugen Sandow, "Victorian bodybuilder".
Publications
- Sandow Physical Training System
- Sandow, Eugen (1897). Strength and How to Get It .
- Body Building
- Strength and Health
- Life is a Movement
- Construction and Reconstruction of the Human Body
- Sandow's Magazine of Physical Culture
See also
- List of professional male bodybuilders
- List of professional female bodybuilders
- Strongman (power athlete)
References
Further reading
- Chapman, David, "Eugen Sandow and Birth of Bodybuilding", Hardgainer (May 1993)
- Chapman, David, Sandow the Magnificent: Eugen Sandow and Bodybuilding Beginnings (Champaign, IL: Illinois University Press, 1994)
- Waller, David, Perfect Man: Muscle Life and Times of Eugen Sandow, Victorian Strongman (Brighton: Victorian Secrets, 2011)
- Barford, Vanessa, and Lucy Townsend, Eugen Sandow: The perfect body , BBC News Magazine, October 19, 2012
- Tate, Don, Strong As Sandow: How Eugen Sandow Became the World's Strongest Man , Charlesbridge Publishing, September 2017
External links
- Official website
- Eugen Sandow & amp; Golden Age of Iron Man
- Exercise with video demonstration
- Works based on or about Eugen Sandow in the Internet Archive
- Eugen Sandow on IMDb
- Eugene Sandow in some famous poses: 1., 2., 3., 4., 5., 6., 7., 8., 9., 10..
- victorianstrongman.com
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