The History of Gold’s Gym
In 1965 a man named Joe Gold had a simple dream. His dream was to open a gym in Venice California. He did this and called the gym Gold’s Gym. Today, Gold’s Gym is the largest fitness club chain the world and is the symbol for bodybuilding gyms. Gold’s Gym Internation, Inc. began with a single gym located in Venice, California. This gym would become the center of the bodybuilding sport in the United States. The original slogan for Gold’s Gym was no-frills gym for serious weightlifters. However, over the years they have changed that slogan so they can appeal to a more broad class of consumers. The new Gold’s Gym has a variety of classes that appeal to everyone. Classes that are offered range from group exercises, Pilates, yoga, and spinning, and of course, it isn’t a Gold’s Gym without personal trainers and pure weightlifting. The primary income the…
Bodybuilding History Timeline
To understand bodybuilding you need to take time to look back at the history of it how far it has come in the past century. Bodybuilding in the modern evolution started in the 1890’s with Eugene Sandow; who is crowned at the Olympia every September as a world champion. Cultures as a whole started looking at the weight lifting and strongmen as a chance to issue challenges to each other by seeing who could out-lift the most on many levels. This is where power lifting competitions exemplify this challenge and competition at its finest. Nevertheless, symmetry was not a concept known at this point in time, but was soon to have emergence with Eugene Sandow. Sandow himself started in Europe as a strongman before traveling to America in the 1890’s. Sandow promoted bodybuilding and also published the first magazine of the time promoting the sport called, “Physical Culture”. Sandow happened…