If you scroll down the page you will see I posted about the history of the gym..today I'm going talk about the history of weight training. Weight training is commonly associated with the gym.
Here is just a quick in sight to why people lift weights: Lifting weights helps to strengthen and size the muscle you are working. I could bore you with how exactly it works and start to talk about physics but I know I don't want to hear about that so I'm going to take a wild guess that you don't either.
There are 4 main sports associated with weight lifting: Bodybuilding, Olympic weightlifting, powerlifting and strongman. General weight training is very common among sports people.
Now for the history part of things....Weight training can be traced back to the start of time. There has never been a time when people haven't been curious about how they can change their bodies. One of the first recorded human beings to use weight to strengthen him was an Ancient Greek wrester Milo of Croton. He used to carry a new born calf on his back every day.
A dumbbell is a common site in the gym and the barbell later became popular in the 19th century. The original barbells had hollow spheres on either side which were filled with sand depending on your level of strength..quite smart. The barbell we use these days which has weighted plates stacked on to it came into use in the late 19th century. In the 1970s a bodybuilding movie called Pumping Iron caused weight training to become very popular in a short space of time. Shortly after that Arnold Schwarzenegger became a well-known in the public eye.
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