Body building is the way of "building" the maximum capacity strength and muscle tone in the body through weightlifting and other form of exercise. Body building focuses on shaping and defining the body's musculature, or muscle system. Generally, body builders are particular with the kind of foods and drinks they take aside from routinary weights lifting and work out.
The first known and most famous body builder was Eugen Sandow. Sandow, born in 1867 in what is now Germany and what was then Prussia, started his body building career as a sideshow Strong Man. Sandow, known as The Great Sandow, believes that a muscular body was a work of art. He is the author of the famous flexes and other posing techniques that until now it is widely use in body building competitions. Sandow is popularly known as the "Father of Body Building."
Body builders derive from different sector of society that comprises different socio economic background and profession. Many body builders work out in the gym regularly while others started at home. Sandow body building techniques provides different exercise that worked in making strong and toned muscles. He discovered that body building is working on the groups of opposing muscles called “antagonistic work out split” could increase body mass. Getting into body building needs tremendous dedication and determination.
