Bodybuilding History 1981-1990

Bodybuilding had become more and more popular sport in all over the world in 80s. Arnold Schwarzenegger retired and would like continue to sponsor the bodybuilding through film industry. Due to his entry in film industry, the already professional stars of film industry started bodybuilding to improve the shape of their physique.

In this era, the existing stars of bodybuilding family become retired and the chance for new champion to come forward. The Chris Dickerson was the champion of the year in 1982. Dickerson has record of becoming the first African-American winner of Mr. America with it also being the oldest winner of Mr. Olympia at the age of 43.

Chris Dickerson

After the Arnold Schwarzenegger the next leading bodybuilder was Lee Haney. He broke Schwarzenegger's record and won eight consecutive Olympia's from 1984-1991. Haney had everything, regularity, proportion, conditioning, and at his heaviest he was a massive 245lbs.

Lee Haney

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Bodybuilding History 1970-1980

Bodybuilding history in the 1970s, Arnold Schwarzenegger covered his spot as the number one bodybuilder in the world by winning the Olympia continuously from 1970-1974 and win again after five years in 1980.

As increased in the popularity of bodybuilding into the 1970s, Arnold and other big name of bodybuilding superstars such as three-time Mr. Olympia winner Frank Zane, Dave Draper and Mike Mentzer became family names.

Frank Zane, Dave Draper and Mike Mentzer from upper to lower

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Bodybuilding History 1961-1969

Bodybuilding is the art of showing the physique of the physical body. A man or woman who is involved in this type of activity is called bodybuilder.

The first bodybuilding contest across-the-board was held in 1965. The name of the contest was the Mr Olympia. The first champion of this contest was Larry Scott and he won the title again in next year. Sergio Oliva won the Mr. Olympia for the next three years in 1967, 68 and 69.

Larry Scott

Sergio Oliva

The 1960s provided world class bodybuilder of all time. Arnold Schwarzenegger is the one of them and is the number one bodybuilder in the world. He beat Dennis Tinereno for the Mr America title in 1967. Arnold won the Mr. Olympia first time in 1970.

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Bodybuilding History 1950-1960

Bodybuilding became more and more popular in the 1950s and 1960s. The man behind this popularity was Charles Atlas, whose advertising the bodybuilding by paper media like books and publications. With this advertisement many people comes in bodybuilding. In these days newly title was started by John Grimek and Reg Park with the name of Mr. Universe and Mr. America. The other big source of popularity was the casting of bodybuilders in movies.

The first gym equipment and training supplement industries were founded by Joe Weider and were complemented by the growth of the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness (IFBB), which was co-founded by Joe and his brother Ben.

The IFBB eventually displaced the Amateur Athletic Union's Mr. Universe titles and also that of the National Amateur Bodybuilders Association as the most important and notable contests were formed in 1950.

In 1950, the National Amateur Bodybuilders Association (NABBA) started their NABBA Mr. Universe contest in the UK. NABBA's first Mr. Universe contest was won by Steve Reeves. Top bodybuilders who won the Mr. Universe title include Reg Park, Bill Pearl and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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Bodybuilding History 1931-1949

Bodybuilding era after 1930 are considered to be very good especially from 1940 to 1970 is frequently called as the “Golden Age”. The casting of some bodybuilders in movies increased the popularity of bodybuilding in the world.

Due to the increase in fame of bodybuilding, the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) added a bodybuilding contest to their existing weightlifting competition in 1939 and the winner of this type of competition was declared as a named "America's Best Built Man".  The overall winner of this 1940 competition was John Grimek.

John Grimek

Roland Essmaker

In 1949, the winner of Mr America contest was Alan Stephan.

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Bodybuilding History 1906-1930

Bodybuilding is the sport of increasing muscle fibers through physical exercise, training and the combination of specific caloric eating or drinking, have a rest on time. A man or a woman who is involved in this type of activity is called bodybuilder.

Al Treloar was declared “The Most Perfectly Developed Man in the World” in the first American bodybuilding competition.  Thomas Edison was a film maker and made a film of Al Treloar’s posing routine. Before the beginning of 20th century, Bernarr Macfadden and Charles Atlas, continuous worked to promote bodybuilding from corner to corner of the world.

Charles Atlas

Bernarr McFadden

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