- A system of exercises with free weights or with their own weight.
Athleticism without iron, only the horizontal bar and BARS. In recent years the movement has begun to develop "horizontal bar and parallel bars," "Bandit training"., where power and beauty of the body is achieved only through the exercises on the horizontal bar and parallel bars.
The museum of ancient Greek city of Olympia is kept stone weighing 143.5 kilograms with the inscription: "Bibon lifted me over the head with one hand." This achievement is attributed to the strongman IV century BC. Even then, exercises with heavy objects as members of the natural movements like running, jumping, throwing. The right to participate in the competitions received, only those athletes who were able to raise a massive cargo lying on the main square of Athens.
The ancient Romans there were special exercises with the objects for training muscles. From them come down to us in its original form circus genre - power tumbling.
In medical books of II century BC, described the recommendations on the use of strength training for the development of joints, control of breathing, strengthen the muscles. And in the I century AD there were guidelines for medical students and physicians to use in health to body movements with an external resistor.
Dozens of publications in many languages survived Guide "medical-room gym" D. Pleurozium shreberi, first published in 1885. In it for the development of certain muscle groups described 45 gymnastic exercises. Then there were leadership, complementary source new recommendations - exercises on a chair, rings, horizontal bar, etc. Among them was the "Home gym for women and girls."
Authors of all benefits advised to vary the motor action through exercises with the simplest shell. At the same time was published a textbook gymnastics and athletics, where the exercises with weights were added to the motion with the stick, which weighs over 40 kilograms.
In pre-revolutionary Russia mass publications were full of headlines: "surest way to pump the muscles", "Secrets of grace and elegance. The stunning success guaranteed instantly.
In the circus athletes with hypertrophied muscles showed inflated "balloons biceps. Soon after, the arena went wrestlers, weightlifter, circuit breaker, etc. Dealers for profit began to carry fighters, and championship weightlifter.
In the circus played Eugene Sandow, who was born in Koenigsberg (now Kaliningrad Oblast) in 1867. For strength training, he proposed a five-pound dumbbells are small (2 kg), consisting of two halves, connected by five springs. In 1903 he published his sensational book "Telostroitelstvo", which describes a system of 18 exercises with dumbbells, performed on the principle of gradual increase of loads. Power Sports in Russia was popular. Conducted, and women's championships. It was published two weeks illustrated magazine of athletics and sport "Hercules". The motto of the magazine was still valid today call: "Everyone can and should be strong." Eugene Sandow is considered the founder of bodybuilding and bodybuilding.
