Find out how the great champions of yesteryear trained and what is their secret to phenomenal muscle mass and great strength. Physical culture is an important component of any society. In terms of physical improvement of a person, the most applicable term seems to be "bodybuilding", and not the more common - "bodybuilding". For example, in the sixties, in the USSR, bodybuilding was in high esteem. A little later, criminal elements also joined this sport.
The essence of physical culture is the ability to learn and systematize knowledge about the human body, thereby preparing the ground for spiritual growth. Unfortunately, rarely did anyone manage to achieve such perfection, and when this happened, these people became role models for several generations. Georg Gackenschmidt, who went down in the history of bodybuilding, definitely belongs to such people.
Biography of Georg Gackenschmidt
In his youth, Georg could not get a decent education, graduating only from a real school. However, he always strove for knowledge. In 1911 he published the book "The Path to Strength and Health", which may still be useful for many today. Although now more and more people are starting to go in for sports, this phenomenon cannot yet be called massive.
Today, thanks to the development of medicine, the number of epidemiological diseases has sharply decreased, but there are still a lot of frail and weak people. The reasons for this phenomenon lie on the surface and it does not take long to find them. The number of people preaching an inactive lifestyle is constantly growing, and attempts to introduce them to sports seem completely incomprehensible.
No one wants to get sick, but most of us believe that it cannot be avoided. However, we should return to the personality of Georg Gackenschmidt himself, who, by the way, was not only a famous athlete, but a philosopher. The breadth of this man's views is simply amazing.
In those days, most athletes came from the lower classes of society and, thanks to sports, they were able to count on a decent life in abundance. However, Georg never organized tournaments, which was a very lucrative business.
In sports, Georg Gackenschmidt spent only thirteen years, from 1898 to 1911. At that time, weight lifting and wrestling were popular sports, but only the second sports discipline could be used to earn money. But Georg performed precisely in weight lifting competitions. His first year of performances (1898) brought two world records at once and was his last at the amateur level. In the same year, he participates in the World Weightlifting Championships and the European Wrestling Championships. In the first tournament, he takes third place, and among the wrestlers he turns out to be the best.
A very interesting fact of these competitions is that they were held in parallel. Thus, Georg Gackenschmidt lifted weights in the pauses between bouts on the wrestling mat. A year later, Georg begins to actively participate in wrestling championships, but his first attempt to win the title of world champion was unsuccessful due to an injury. However, the audience already saw its potential, which was soon fully realized.
In 1902 Gackenschmidt moved to England for permanent residence. His winning streak at the World Championships continued until 1908, when he lost to American Gotch. Two years later, he left the sport and practically nothing is known about this page of his life. In the post-war years, when the USSR weightlifting and wrestling teams went abroad, Georg Gakkenschmidt often attended tournaments with their participation and talked with coaches and athletes. In history, his name is immortalized by the hack machine, which is familiar to all modern bodybuilders.
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