Eugene Sandow, The first famous bodybuilder, transformed his music-hall performance into a career as a professional strongman. Sandow back in the day had what is now termed "good genetics" for the sport of bodybuilding. Sandow invented equipment, such as spring-grip dumbbells. It was with Sandow that bodybuilding was actually born.
He began demonstrating his strength to audiences as well as posing as a Greek statue to attract attention to himself. n 1898, Sandow was considered the most famous man alive when he started publishing the magazine Physical Culturewhich later became Sandow's Magazine of Physical Culture.
Sandow showed off his physique on postcards only wearing a fig leaf to cover up. By the time of his death in 1925, Sandow had made bodybuilding a profitable enterprise.
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