Eugen Sandow ::: Project ETERNITY

Eugen Sandow, a pioneering bodybuilder of the Victorian era, was born Friederich Wilhelm Mueller in Königsberg, East Prussia on April 2 1867 and died in 1925. He lies in an unmarked grave near London, but there is a movement to give the great man the credit he is due.

Sandow authored five books: Sandow's System of Physical Training, Strength and How To Obtain It, Body-Building, Strength and Health, and Life is Movement. In 1901, he organised the world's first physique competition, which was held at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England. He was also an erudite businessman. He owned a mail-order physical instruction and exercise equipment business and was the inventor of a unique spring-loaded dumb-bell and a weighted rubber band resistance training system. His fame was instrumental in popularising home training equipment. He also produced Sandow Cigars, Sandow's Health & Strength Cocoa and Sandow, a magazine devoted to physical culture. He opened a Physical Culture Studio in London, one of the first health clubs to contrast starkly with the 'sweaty' gymnasiums that had already existed, and made exercise fashionable for all classes. Once having conquered Europe, he set out to conquer the world with his ideas of health for all through bodybuilding.

He was befriended with the likes of the King of England and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He was closely associated with Florenz Ziegfeld, who promoted and exhibited him to great effect in various carnivals throughout the United States. He was portrayed by the actor Nat Pendleton in the film The Great Ziegfeld (1936).

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