Eugen Sandow, born Friedrich Wilhelm Müller, was a pioneering German bodybuilder also known as the father of modern bodybuilding.
TSandow born in Königsberg, Prussia now known as Kaliningrad, Russia on April 2, 1867, to a German father and a Russian mother. His family were Lutherans and wishes him to become a Lutheran minister He left Prussia in 1885 to avoid military service and traveled whole Europe, after becoming a circus athlete and adopting Eugen Sandow as his stage name.
Sandow's similarity to the physiques found on classical Greek and Roman sculpture, as he measured the statues in museums and develop The Grecian Ideal as a formula for the perfect physique. Sandow make built his physique to the exact size of his Grecian Ideal, and considered the father of modern bodybuilding, as one of the first bodybuilder to intentionally create his musculature to preknown dimensions.
In his books Strength and How to get It and Sandow's System of Physical Training, Sandow gets out specific prescriptions of weights in order to achieve his ideal proportions.
Sandow married Blanche Brooks in 1896 with whom he had two daughters, Helen and Lorraine. He was not in faith into her later in marriage, and she refused to mark his grave.
TSandow born in Königsberg, Prussia now known as Kaliningrad, Russia on April 2, 1867, to a German father and a Russian mother. His family were Lutherans and wishes him to become a Lutheran minister He left Prussia in 1885 to avoid military service and traveled whole Europe, after becoming a circus athlete and adopting Eugen Sandow as his stage name.
In his books Strength and How to get It and Sandow's System of Physical Training, Sandow gets out specific prescriptions of weights in order to achieve his ideal proportions.
Sandow married Blanche Brooks in 1896 with whom he had two daughters, Helen and Lorraine. He was not in faith into her later in marriage, and she refused to mark his grave.
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