Workout

The longer I train with weights, the more I understand that strength training and bodybuilding - it is not the same thing. I remember my first years of work with iron. It was the most exciting and interesting time in my life. I was full of enthusiasm before each training session and felt that keeping a positive attitude and trying to work so hard, how will my power (which is constantly growing), I can achieve anything you wish.

Then my friends and I practiced in various garages and basements. We worked with weights to improve their performance in other sports. In my case it was gymnastics, which I worked with for 10 years. Then it was thought that regular exercise with weights adversely affect the performance in such sports as baseball, swimming, running and even football (Who needs to excessive muscular imprisons movement?). Many years passed before the strength training has become an integral part of training programs in almost all sports.

Some of us eventually began to realize that training with weights not only makes us stronger as compared with those who ignore them, they also give you muscles!
But even with all this, our training was something of a secret study of 40-ies. We just did it for myself, no one came and the thought of physique competitions. Sports magazines, such as Strength & Health and Iron Man, wrote little about our sport. Weight lifting still somehow illuminated, and then only briefly.

Instead, the magazines have focused on how to develop strength, health and stamina through regular and reasonable exercise with weights. The idea of training only for the purpose of such a figure, which could be demonstrated on the stage, seemed vulgar. If you told somebody about the goal, then immediately felt a lack of understanding from friends, even those who have trained with you.

Only after the Second World War, some organizations have begun to hold competitions to assess the constitution, and even then they were all amateur. Usually this AAU Junior and Senior Mr.America, sometimes state championship, which involved fewer than a dozen competitors - as a rule, weight lifters.