Bodies modeled after the ancient Greek and Roman statues are so much more æsthetic and pleasing to the eye than today's roided-up mutants. Also speaks to the amazing sense of beauty that the ancients had. There had to have been guys that ripped back then for the sculptors to emulate, maybe stone masons or heavily-worked slaves.
No, there chests are too small. As long as they avoid bubble gut and don't have a skinny core then bodybuilders look good at any size. Jay Cutler is the perfect example of aesthetics at extreme size
There's something about these early bodybuilders I really admire. Hard to put my finger on, the fact they're all natural, have aesthetic taste and call it "physical culture" helps.
Fun fact: it is still called "Culturisme" to this day in french. "Musculation" in french is more for the average man that exercises just for health reasons.
I had no idea who sandow was until now, but what a great story, what a character, what a legacy! Also aiming for the greek statue look is an attainable physique goal, which is at the same time the peak of aesthetics IMO, so overall a very good choice!! Thanks for telling us the story of this great man!
Check out bronze era bodybuilding. There are several amazing figures that actually looked better than Eugene Sandow, that being said, he's still my favorite.
@Fernando Maron Georg was great, but his physique wasn't as aestheticlly pleasing as Sandow. It was awesome, Georg's physique, but not that of others of his generation. Besides Sandow, I believe the eastern Indian body builders of that era had the most complete look.
@@johnnychode Never said that mate, I simply stated that there are plenty of natural bodybuilders around who aren't competing which if you had even half a brain you would know this to be true.
@notsurefornow69 yeah I totally took that the wrong way, I have no idea why I reacted like that, I'm quite ashamed of myself. That was like over a year ago, I hope I've improved as a person since then.
Sandow is my favorite body builder. Hes inspired me to workout and ive been working out and really going at it for 4 years now. Being consistent and always pushing harder. i wish i could have a physique like his !
Great video Sir! I learned much here. I am embarrassed to say that apart from being aware of Sandow as an old school strongman, i had no idea of his huge contribution to the creation of this great sport. Thank you. 👍
Dawg…Ancient Greeks did bodybuilding… Ancient societies knew “eat lots + lift heavy things = big men” It was an emphasis of certain aspects of training in Ancient Greece 😂 F&$k this channel literally sucks at research.
love these videos bro! the bronze and silver era bodybuilders are what i try to model my training / mindset after. they are so impressive but also seem so achievable and realistic. very similar to the statues sandow saw in italy. their focus on strength and health rather than purely aesthetics is something i think we all need to go back to, rather than the vanity so present in everyone now. having juiced up aesthetic-focused influencers does not help nattys at all.
exactly, their bodies had great function and it came with beautiful form. Nowadays a lot of influencers are pushing grotesque and swollen physiques that if anything ends up restricting mobility and flexibility
@@bibalnasaha2534 yeah. Like they put so much mass that they become imobile and can't even reach their back when itchy. I could just imagine how burdening their heavy bodies are to them.
Outstanding essay! I submit that likely the artists in Greece/Rome had something real to reference for statues and painting at that time. If no physique like those ever existed, it would be nearly impossible for an artist to accurately depict developed muscular anatomy without a reference. Well developed muscles don't look simply like larger versions of an average physique. The statues are remarkably accurate and life-like.
Thats because those massive muscle statues are NOT greek or roman, theyre often from the 18th century. If you look up real statues from the greeks (we have very few intact ones) theyre a lot leaner
@@issemayhem no we’re talking about the ancient ones but people do get them confused and either way, bodybuilding didn’t really exist in the 18th century anyways.
@@issemayhem their greek vase artwork certainly isn't leaner (maybe at the waist). They made themselves look jacked. Every hoplite built like a linebacker.
Sandow lived an extraordinary life, including an early example of bodybuilding G4P. The fact that all these people went to London - then considered the centre of the world - to make their fortune, is interesting too.
@@ubcroel4022 His ass. He's just stating random bullshit. Tons of bi/gay people these days are trying to make anyone with a significant story in history, gay.
I heard ot Eugene Sandow thru another YT and have been implementing his exercise routine, to the best of my capabilities, and have noticed my body toning and changing for the better. This was a very well put video about him and how things came to be. Thank you.
If Sandow sculpted his body to look like the Greek statues, how did the artists make the Greek statues to look like that? Someone even before must have had such an amazing physique inspired by no one that people literally thought "That's how god's should look like".
Because Gladiators, Statesmen, Soldiers all did bodybuilding as far back as Ancient Greece. People this big existed back then. We’ve known for thousands of years that “eat lots of food + lift lots of heavy weights = big men” The average elite Roman troop was build like a Navy SEAL or probably bigger because they were shorter on average. There was some massive gladiators… Successful Gladiators also got to eat a lot of calorie dense food, and train all the time… I don’t understand how the channel owner missed 2,000 years of history of weight training and muscle building. Hypertrophy has been known about for an extremely long time.
@@mrlee3294 well yeah their is a reason why mesomorph is considered the caveman build. They were jacked (paleo Europeans were 185 lean, their modern part descendants are same height 30 pounds less muscle).
@@greenprism93 Sure, but they weren’t bodybuilders, Sandow coined the term and made it a sport, not everyone that builds their bodies are bodybuilders.
This is very close to a perfect physique. P.S. The fact that in the past the focus was the display of strength and just, casually, the shape of the body emerged, speakes loud about the mentality back then (and now).
I never thought in a million years I'd subscribe to a channel like this, but honestly I love history, I love lifting, and this is just like peanut butter and jelly.
We can learn a lot from history. These times, there were no gyms or aids to add growth. The exercises he used are virtually ignored today. We can learn a lot in improving ourselves, incorporating these techniques in our own training.
Indeed, Sandow was the first pioneer of body building. I can't imagine what people felt in 19 century when they saw his body for the first time Really Incredible 🤩 P.S. I think he was the first person to wear Men Vest ( white vest without sleeves) which in India people still call as Sandow Baniyan.
Dude…Gladiators we’re essentially bodybuilding in Ancient Greece… There are philosophers who even emphasized being strong… The average Praetorian weighed as much as the average Navy SEAL with a few inches less in average heights… Hypertrophy training has been theorized since the Greeks.
@@greenprism93 Ancient Greek wasn't bodybuilding. When they used to talk about training and being fit it used be in the context of war. Not about appearance.
@@timetraveler_0 No, they literally understood that disciplined exercise + calories = aesthetic bodies. Why do you think people aspired to look godly and statues were chiseled out of bodies considered godly? It’s literally chiseled in stone my man. It’s just that the idea of being and looking strong had a functional aspect, they didn’t do it just for war, they did it for fun. Most soldiers in a phalanx weren’t even trained. Socrates stood in the Phalanx and often complained to Plato about the shape of state training for military activities. Rome was especially war centric, but Ancient Greece was not. Specific city-states were, like the Spartans. Others didn’t give too much of a s&$t except in defense… In fact…The Spartans never fought far from home. Their war strategy was primarily a defensive one. Women were even expected to stay exceptionally fit and athletic games were often held, and competitors did it nude to showcase their impressive bodies and training (as well as being unrestricted) Women worked out often in Sparta, were not expected to go to war, but were also trained in basic combat techniques growing up so they could defend Sparta should the need arise.
@@timetraveler_0 "No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable." Sokrates
Eugen Sandow was a natural body builder with great strength. Tarzon the jungle man a fiction story had a good physique. Hercules also another example..😀
I train more or less the same way he did: light dumbbells for super high reps, whole body routine 6x a week. It works better than anything else I've ever tried.
@@unfear7 I use a weight I can curl for 50-100 reps, and I use that weight for all the exercises, so it varies. The lowest reps I'm doing for any exercise is 20. I use a breathing tempo, so for most exercises that's 2 second reps, but 4 seconds for pullovers, Romanian deadlifts, leg raises and sumo squats. Full ROM on everything, weight comes to a dead stop at top and bottom. Failure on every set, and by failure I mean not being able to get the weight out of the bottom position (true, technical failure). My routine: curls triceps kickbacks gripper curls (like a wrist curl, but without wrist flexion; just rolling the bars up and down with my fingers like I'm using a gripper) overhead front raises w/hammer grip straight arm pullovers w/hammer grip leg raises calf raises Romanian deadlifts sumo squats Sandow thought of light dumbbell training as a deep breathing exercise, hence the full inhalation to lower the weight and full exhalation to lift it. I don't feel winded when I do it; training feels effortless. But it works. I built 18" arms at my peak; I was only using 20 pounders at that size. I'm currently maintaining at 17" arms with 10 pounders. I'm 52, never took PEDs or supplements. I only eat 4 moderate meals per day. A lot of people think training this way doesn't build strength because you use such light weight and it takes forever to progress in weight, but I've found from experience that if you train heavy, everything feels heavy; if you train light, everything feels light. When I was getting large merchandise shipments, I was carrying in 100 pound boxes. When I was training 5x5 that would have been a struggle, but training this way, it feels almost effortless. Although he never used the term failure, he also recommended training until exhaustion, meaning not able to lift the weight any more. So with all that in mind, he was technically the first bodybuilder to prescribe high intensity methods (slower reps, strict form, higher time under tension, going to failure on every set, only 1 set per exercise).
When you see an Indonesian man, in 1980's, there is man name Mr Ade Rai.. he do workout gym basic naturally.. but his body get maximus shape of modern bodibuilding..!!! He win musclemania contest of bodibuilding at that time.!! Amazing remember at that time he not consume steroid ever.. and now, he still at good bodishape actually naturally.. owesome
Bruh, I believe if Eugen Sandow could see what has become of the Competition that He started He would be Marveled at the Popularity but Greatly disgusted and disappointed at Size monsters that have Resulted. Dude was way ahead of His time.
I find it interesting that the idea of a massive chest is relatively new. Look at historic statues, Sandow, early bodybuilders - they had massive core and stabilizer strength, but not the massive pecs we see today.
Massive pecs are disgusting and completely unatural. That's why it looks so ugly The bench press was invented years and years and years after. Before this every aesthetic body builder had no bulging unnatural chests. made them look like ancient greeks
As someone approaching 60, I was introduced to comic books at 9. At 11 I built my first bench out of 2x4's and plywood, and weights using a bar from an old combine and wheels from a semi truck. From there I purchased the "universal body building" manual for $7 from the adds section of a comic book, then I got into contact sports in junior high continuing through the rest of school and throughout my life. However back in 6th grade I got my hands on every book I could to learn and the sport and nutrition going back to its earliest history then later training others. I find it so disappointing (because of this electronic agewe live in) that people take all these shortcuts to try to achieve things and don't know a thing about it they need to crack open real books 😔 . Young people today use the term "old school" in a derogatory manner. People need to know the history of what ever it is they are trying to do as well as the people who pioneered it if they want to be successful. It's so sad to see kids in this sport as saying this is the first time they ever heard of "The great Sandow". Just who did the think the bronze sculpture holding the barebell trophy was. Anyway I am glad to see these videos popping up. And I wish people would drop the silly term "natty" in their vain attempt to coin a new frase and just say what you mean. It's not new its "NATURAL". Spoiler alert it's been around sense the spoken word.
Reading Sandow’s first book, and man, that’s a gold. I mean, every body freak out with his light dumbbell system, but there’s are heavy exercises, and exercises with barbell too. I watched some guy dying firs system for a month, but nobody trained everything. In book is no guideline for sets and reps for heavy work, but combine light and heavy weight exercises might be the one of the coolest workouts ever. Warmup and MC with light, strength and modern bodybuilding with heavy. Just imagine, every other day jerking and pressing overhead barbell with on head - what could be cooler) Hope you do some video about this - technique, hypertrophy applications, how combining may work. In some video (maybe by bookworm) there was information, that Sandow do light system in first half of the day, and do some heavy stuff in evening on public; may be two training sessions is the answer. Or light dumbbell system followed by couple heavy exercises. To bad he wrote guideline mostly for new lifters, and not mentioned progress guideline for heavy work. Or maybe there is some in other books🤷♂️
So that is the actual root of the word "Sando" we commonly say for a for a strong man. Very interesting indeed. Even the men's sleeveless undergarment is popularly known as a "Sando vest" or simply Sando. Very interesting discovery about root of a word. Sando comes from Sandow.
Its incredible that now, thanks to easy access to information about bodybuilding and modern gym, the average gym goer is vastly more aesthetic and bigger than bodybuilder centuries ago.
@Nattylife, thank you for these videos and for highlighting this great era of bodybuilders that are so often not talked about these days. Keeping making more! It goes to show that hard work, consistency, persistence, and a no-excuse approach are the only way to aim for these natural bodies just as they were achieved back. We don't have to consider or resort to steroids or TRTs. Just working out day-in-day-out with good form, watching what we eat, and considering our sleep is what is needed--nothing more. And if we do that we can achieve greater heights than we could have imagined for our bodies and still look aesthetically pleasing and healthy, contrasted to roid-filled bodybuilders.
thanks for the video tribute to the great man.hard core bodybuilders have started this whole era of weight training and fitness.this whole fitness industry exist today is because of the work of great bodybuilders like sandow..reg park ...steve reevs ...arnold..etc
It reminds me that one video of Pewdiepie were he showed a picture taken from a schulptur depicting a naturally muscluar man, as an example for Pewdiepie's astethic goals
he has the best and only strongman with the muscle control in his posing.more reason for joe weider to aymbolize his stardom via the mr.olympia trophy.
I think what separates Sandow from others is he's got a rectangle torso instead of a V shaped. I'm built with a rectangle torso myself. It's strange really cause you never quite achieve that "look" it seems you have small love handles at all times. Lol.
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When did he die
Bodies modeled after the ancient Greek and Roman statues are so much more æsthetic and pleasing to the eye than today's roided-up mutants. Also speaks to the amazing sense of beauty that the ancients had. There had to have been guys that ripped back then for the sculptors to emulate, maybe stone masons or heavily-worked slaves.
I always said the statue of david is the peak male physique
Bodybuilding was an aristocratic art for the
Greeks! The upper classes did it recreationally, while the slaves weren't allowed in the gym
@@steedu46gt Not to sure many would want to look like a sixteen year old boy!
@@steedu46gt what about the micro penis?
No, there chests are too small. As long as they avoid bubble gut and don't have a skinny core then bodybuilders look good at any size. Jay Cutler is the perfect example of aesthetics at extreme size
There's something about these early bodybuilders I really admire. Hard to put my finger on, the fact they're all natural, have aesthetic taste and call it "physical culture" helps.
Fun fact: it is still called "Culturisme" to this day in french. "Musculation" in french is more for the average man that exercises just for health reasons.
As a history buff and philosophy nerd who is somewhat new to weightlifting this channel is a godsend
I had no idea who sandow was until now, but what a great story, what a character, what a legacy!
Also aiming for the greek statue look is an attainable physique goal, which is at the same time the peak of aesthetics IMO, so overall a very good choice!!
Thanks for telling us the story of this great man!
Check out bronze era bodybuilding. There are several amazing figures that actually looked better than Eugene Sandow, that being said, he's still my favorite.
Check out George Hackenschmtich, the guy had an incredible physique and a great philosophy on bodybuilding.
@Fernando Maron Georg was great, but his physique wasn't as aestheticlly pleasing as Sandow. It was awesome, Georg's physique, but not that of others of his generation. Besides Sandow, I believe the eastern Indian body builders of that era had the most complete look.
Attainable with good to great genetics yes. They didn't just pick out the average guy to model them after in ancient times or the renaissance.
his real name was: Friedrich Wilhelm Müller. It doesn't get any more German than that. 😂😂
Absolutely natty unlike the modern bodybuilders
Plenty of natural bodybuilders around, just not the famous ones that are up on stage.
@@electroraptor71 Its cool how someone who's just a random dude can be stronger than someone who's famous for strength.
@@johnnychode Never said that mate, I simply stated that there are plenty of natural bodybuilders around who aren't competing which if you had even half a brain you would know this to be true.
@@electroraptor71 calm down
@notsurefornow69 yeah I totally took that the wrong way, I have no idea why I reacted like that, I'm quite ashamed of myself. That was like over a year ago, I hope I've improved as a person since then.
Sandow is my favorite body builder. Hes inspired me to workout and ive been working out and really going at it for 4 years now. Being consistent and always pushing harder. i wish i could have a physique like his !
I mean with patience and a lot of hard work you can nearly achieve the body he had maybe try old school equipment like what he had that may help.
The bronze era is my favorite. These guys are such a huge inspiration to me and channels like yours going over them is much appreciated
At least, he is a true natural bodybuilder. He looks great.
Ur channel blew up, much deserved!
Great video Sir!
I learned much here. I am embarrassed to say that apart from being aware of Sandow as an old school strongman, i had no idea of his huge contribution to the creation of this great sport.
Thank you. 👍
Loving this kind of content , i love learning about the history of bodybuilding
Thank you for putting out these videos man, they really help in motivating and inspiring me.
I really like the content of your channel too. Thanks for the upload and good luck.
Glad you're enjoying them bro! Thank you for the support
Excellent video - great to see Sandow get the respect and acclimation he deserves.
Awesome tribute to an awesome man! Without him, neither bodybuilding nor weight training as we know it would exist. Keep up the great work, boss!
Dawg…Ancient Greeks did bodybuilding…
Ancient societies knew “eat lots + lift heavy things = big men”
It was an emphasis of certain aspects of training in Ancient Greece 😂
F&$k this channel literally sucks at research.
love these videos bro! the bronze and silver era bodybuilders are what i try to model my training / mindset after. they are so impressive but also seem so achievable and realistic. very similar to the statues sandow saw in italy. their focus on strength and health rather than purely aesthetics is something i think we all need to go back to, rather than the vanity so present in everyone now. having juiced up aesthetic-focused influencers does not help nattys at all.
exactly, their bodies had great function and it came with beautiful form. Nowadays a lot of influencers are pushing grotesque and swollen physiques that if anything ends up restricting mobility and flexibility
Steroid overuse ain't aesthetic anymore. They look more like mutants or freaks than humans.
@@bibalnasaha2534 yeah. Like they put so much mass that they become imobile and can't even reach their back when itchy. I could just imagine how burdening their heavy bodies are to them.
Outstanding essay! I submit that likely the artists in Greece/Rome had something real to reference for statues and painting at that time. If no physique like those ever existed, it would be nearly impossible for an artist to accurately depict developed muscular anatomy without a reference. Well developed muscles don't look simply like larger versions of an average physique. The statues are remarkably accurate and life-like.
They had good genes and were super active. Many models were pentathlon or pankration athletes
Thats because those massive muscle statues are NOT greek or roman, theyre often from the 18th century. If you look up real statues from the greeks (we have very few intact ones) theyre a lot leaner
@@issemayhem no we’re talking about the ancient ones but people do get them confused and either way, bodybuilding didn’t really exist in the 18th century anyways.
@@issemayhem their greek vase artwork certainly isn't leaner (maybe at the waist). They made themselves look jacked. Every hoplite built like a linebacker.
@@issemayhem You mean like the Farnese Hercules?
Sandow lived an extraordinary life, including an early example of bodybuilding G4P. The fact that all these people went to London - then considered the centre of the world - to make their fortune, is interesting too.
GFP? I hope that's not G4P?
@@xenoaltrax485 Yeah, I spelled it wrong. He was a male proz-i-tude, and seems to have been bisexual.
@@BuJammy source?
@@ubcroel4022 His ass. He's just stating random bullshit. Tons of bi/gay people these days are trying to make anyone with a significant story in history, gay.
BuJammy: Who even thinks of this unless it’s already on their mind?
I heard ot Eugene Sandow thru another YT and have been implementing his exercise routine, to the best of my capabilities, and have noticed my body toning and changing for the better. This was a very well put video about him and how things came to be. Thank you.
If Sandow sculpted his body to look like the Greek statues, how did the artists make the Greek statues to look like that? Someone even before must have had such an amazing physique inspired by no one that people literally thought "That's how god's should look like".
Because Gladiators, Statesmen, Soldiers all did bodybuilding as far back as Ancient Greece. People this big existed back then.
We’ve known for thousands of years that “eat lots of food + lift lots of heavy weights = big men”
The average elite Roman troop was build like a Navy SEAL or probably bigger because they were shorter on average. There was some massive gladiators…
Successful Gladiators also got to eat a lot of calorie dense food, and train all the time…
I don’t understand how the channel owner missed 2,000 years of history of weight training and muscle building.
Hypertrophy has been known about for an extremely long time.
@@greenprism93 Facts, a strong fit body goes back since the time of mankind. Even some Neanderthals were built like tanks.
@@mrlee3294 well yeah their is a reason why mesomorph is considered the caveman build. They were jacked (paleo Europeans were 185 lean, their modern part descendants are same height 30 pounds less muscle).
@@greenprism93 Sure, but they weren’t bodybuilders, Sandow coined the term and made it a sport, not everyone that builds their bodies are bodybuilders.
The Father of Bodybuilding.
Grandfather
Amazing. Ty for your work chronicling the history of the sport and its culture
This is very close to a perfect physique.
P.S. The fact that in the past the focus was the display of strength and just, casually, the shape of the body emerged, speakes loud about the mentality back then (and now).
Yeessss!! Exactly my thoughts! Bodybuilding today is a soulless sport. Back then, it was more of an esthetic demonstration of REAL-WORLD STRENGTH!
I never thought in a million years I'd subscribe to a channel like this, but honestly I love history, I love lifting, and this is just like peanut butter and jelly.
I didn't knew there was a time the knowledge you can look like this with hard work wasn''t taken for granted
1:39 That says it all!! What an inspiration. Excellent video!
your view to subscriber turnover is impressive, people are resonating alot with your message, keep going man.
It's amazing the deep dives and the research you do into theses videos. I love them. Fascinating stuff.
What a legend!
Greek scultures are my goal as well
No arguing about his natty status in those days
We can learn a lot from history. These times, there were no gyms or aids to add growth. The exercises he used are virtually ignored today. We can learn a lot in improving ourselves, incorporating these techniques in our own training.
3:25
When you are so Jacked you can get away with vandalism
Great information on Eugene Sandow. Thank you for making this video.
Excellent research. Much appreciated!
Indeed, Sandow was the first pioneer of body building. I can't imagine what people felt in 19 century when they saw his body for the first time
Really Incredible 🤩
P.S. I think he was the first person to wear Men Vest ( white vest without sleeves) which in India people still call as Sandow Baniyan.
Dude…Gladiators we’re essentially bodybuilding in Ancient Greece…
There are philosophers who even emphasized being strong…
The average Praetorian weighed as much as the average Navy SEAL with a few inches less in average heights…
Hypertrophy training has been theorized since the Greeks.
@@greenprism93 Ancient Greek wasn't bodybuilding. When they used to talk about training and being fit it used be in the context of war. Not about appearance.
@@timetraveler_0 No, they literally understood that disciplined exercise + calories = aesthetic bodies.
Why do you think people aspired to look godly and statues were chiseled out of bodies considered godly?
It’s literally chiseled in stone my man. It’s just that the idea of being and looking strong had a functional aspect, they didn’t do it just for war, they did it for fun.
Most soldiers in a phalanx weren’t even trained. Socrates stood in the Phalanx and often complained to Plato about the shape of state training for military activities.
Rome was especially war centric, but Ancient Greece was not. Specific city-states were, like the Spartans. Others didn’t give too much of a s&$t except in defense…
In fact…The Spartans never fought far from home. Their war strategy was primarily a defensive one. Women were even expected to stay exceptionally fit and athletic games were often held, and competitors did it nude to showcase their impressive bodies and training (as well as being unrestricted)
Women worked out often in Sparta, were not expected to go to war, but were also trained in basic combat techniques growing up so they could defend Sparta should the need arise.
@@timetraveler_0 "No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable."
Sokrates
I can't believe I was mogged by this man, not just in physique, but also by his mustache.
I am always impressed about the detailed Explanation and Knowing about the history of Body sculpturing.....Thank you!!!!
Thanks! I enjoyed it!
thank you for these videos. im natty and love learning the stories and history about the hobby i love. ❤
Sandow was an original, superbly proportioned, with no steroids other chemicals. Natural and splendid. Good genes and hard work.
Great content man! keep at it
Great video, thanks!
Perfect physique something you can achieve natural.props for making this video great stuff
Eugen Sandow was a natural body builder with great strength. Tarzon the jungle man a fiction story had a good physique. Hercules also another example..😀
This is so inspirational holy shit
I train more or less the same way he did: light dumbbells for super high reps, whole body routine 6x a week. It works better than anything else I've ever tried.
How many reps? Like 40?
@@unfear7 I use a weight I can curl for 50-100 reps, and I use that weight for all the exercises, so it varies. The lowest reps I'm doing for any exercise is 20. I use a breathing tempo, so for most exercises that's 2 second reps, but 4 seconds for pullovers, Romanian deadlifts, leg raises and sumo squats. Full ROM on everything, weight comes to a dead stop at top and bottom. Failure on every set, and by failure I mean not being able to get the weight out of the bottom position (true, technical failure).
My routine:
curls
triceps kickbacks
gripper curls (like a wrist curl, but without wrist flexion; just rolling the bars up and down with my fingers like I'm using a gripper)
overhead front raises w/hammer grip
straight arm pullovers w/hammer grip
leg raises
calf raises
Romanian deadlifts
sumo squats
Sandow thought of light dumbbell training as a deep breathing exercise, hence the full inhalation to lower the weight and full exhalation to lift it. I don't feel winded when I do it; training feels effortless. But it works. I built 18" arms at my peak; I was only using 20 pounders at that size. I'm currently maintaining at 17" arms with 10 pounders. I'm 52, never took PEDs or supplements. I only eat 4 moderate meals per day.
A lot of people think training this way doesn't build strength because you use such light weight and it takes forever to progress in weight, but I've found from experience that if you train heavy, everything feels heavy; if you train light, everything feels light. When I was getting large merchandise shipments, I was carrying in 100 pound boxes. When I was training 5x5 that would have been a struggle, but training this way, it feels almost effortless.
Although he never used the term failure, he also recommended training until exhaustion, meaning not able to lift the weight any more. So with all that in mind, he was technically the first bodybuilder to prescribe high intensity methods (slower reps, strict form, higher time under tension, going to failure on every set, only 1 set per exercise).
Your routine is amazing. May I ask how many times a day could you do your routine? Or did you do it only once a day 6x a day for an entire week?
@@mcmlii.v Once daily, 6x a week unless I get sick or have other stuff to do.
Sooo lift light, not heavy? Nowdays I always hear "Brah lift heavy for results"
Great video!!!!
Really fascinating to see over 100 year footage of a person posing with big muscles
Amazing history info. Thank-you
what a cool story i never knew! 👍🏻
His christmas tree is a thing of beauty
This man is legit responsible for higher man's standard.
When you see an Indonesian man, in 1980's, there is man name Mr Ade Rai.. he do workout gym basic naturally.. but his body get maximus shape of modern bodibuilding..!!! He win musclemania contest of bodibuilding at that time.!! Amazing remember at that time he not consume steroid ever.. and now, he still at good bodishape actually naturally.. owesome
Enjoyed a lot
Goosebumps 😢🔥❄️
This guy literally had a greek god physique
My new favorite exercise is the hilarious dumbell curles 🤣
Really nice explained👏🏻🙌🏻👍🏻
@5:02 that backflip tho 😮
I was thinking the same thing too and man it was really good.
Bruh, I believe if Eugen Sandow could see what has become of the Competition that He started He would be Marveled at the Popularity but Greatly disgusted and disappointed at Size monsters that have Resulted. Dude was way ahead of His time.
I like the flat/toned chest with large shoulders and arms look, pretty aesthetic
Good job 👌🏻👍🏻
Interesting. It's cool to hear the story of the actual Sandow statue.
I find it interesting that the idea of a massive chest is relatively new. Look at historic statues, Sandow, early bodybuilders - they had massive core and stabilizer strength, but not the massive pecs we see today.
Massive pecs are disgusting and completely unatural. That's why it looks so ugly
The bench press was invented years and years and years after. Before this every aesthetic body builder had no bulging unnatural chests. made them look like ancient greeks
A trip from Kaliningrad to Italy in late 1800 probably took a week in each direction :)
Simply The Legend!
Incredible man❤️❤️
As someone approaching 60, I was introduced to comic books at 9. At 11 I built my first bench out of 2x4's and plywood, and weights using a bar from an old combine and wheels from a semi truck. From there I purchased the "universal body building" manual for $7 from the adds section of a comic book, then I got into contact sports in junior high continuing through the rest of school and throughout my life. However back in 6th grade I got my hands on every book I could to learn and the sport and nutrition going back to its earliest history then later training others. I find it so disappointing (because of this electronic agewe live in) that people take all these shortcuts to try to achieve things and don't know a thing about it they need to crack open real books 😔 . Young people today use the term "old school" in a derogatory manner. People need to know the history of what ever it is they are trying to do as well as the people who pioneered it if they want to be successful. It's so sad to see kids in this sport as saying this is the first time they ever heard of "The great Sandow". Just who did the think the bronze sculpture holding the barebell trophy was. Anyway I am glad to see these videos popping up. And I wish people would drop the silly term "natty" in their vain attempt to coin a new frase and just say what you mean. It's not new its "NATURAL". Spoiler alert it's been around sense the spoken word.
Reading Sandow’s first book, and man, that’s a gold.
I mean, every body freak out with his light dumbbell system, but there’s are heavy exercises, and exercises with barbell too. I watched some guy dying firs system for a month, but nobody trained everything. In book is no guideline for sets and reps for heavy work, but combine light and heavy weight exercises might be the one of the coolest workouts ever. Warmup and MC with light, strength and modern bodybuilding with heavy. Just imagine, every other day jerking and pressing overhead barbell with on head - what could be cooler)
Hope you do some video about this - technique, hypertrophy applications, how combining may work. In some video (maybe by bookworm) there was information, that Sandow do light system in first half of the day, and do some heavy stuff in evening on public; may be two training sessions is the answer. Or light dumbbell system followed by couple heavy exercises.
To bad he wrote guideline mostly for new lifters, and not mentioned progress guideline for heavy work. Or maybe there is some in other books🤷♂️
First recorded bodybuilding.
Greek times and time before that ... stature of peeps them...shows how shredded they were
Man this the most iconic story
Body building has taken a turn for the worse in the last 20 years, now the bodies are grotesque , all mass and no proportion
Even professor rammurti Naidu has took elephant on his chest with a plank
Now just imagine the strength rammurti Naidu had
You deserve more
Nah, Sandow deserves more, not You
So that is the actual root of the word "Sando" we commonly say for a for a strong man. Very interesting indeed. Even the men's sleeveless undergarment is popularly known as a "Sando vest" or simply Sando. Very interesting discovery about root of a word. Sando comes from Sandow.
absolute legend
Please make a video on
professor ram murt
He was one of the strongest indians from the black & white era
I have a signed copy of one of his books
Good-looking dude
Inner vests are still called Sandow Banyan here in India
Wow, man, never about it.. thanks for the info
To me sandow is perfect. Beautiful face, harmonious physique if i had to pick just one it would be him.
We take for granted all the knowledge around diet and exercise to gain muscle, what would have been available to Sandow?
Dont forget that arthur conan doyle was one of the judges at the great competition.
Amazing
Its incredible that now, thanks to easy access to information about bodybuilding and modern gym, the average gym goer is vastly more aesthetic and bigger than bodybuilder centuries ago.
@Nattylife, thank you for these videos and for highlighting this great era of bodybuilders that are so often not talked about these days. Keeping making more! It goes to show that hard work, consistency, persistence, and a no-excuse approach are the only way to aim for these natural bodies just as they were achieved back. We don't have to consider or resort to steroids or TRTs. Just working out day-in-day-out with good form, watching what we eat, and considering our sleep is what is needed--nothing more. And if we do that we can achieve greater heights than we could have imagined for our bodies and still look aesthetically pleasing and healthy, contrasted to roid-filled bodybuilders.
thanks for the video tribute to the great man.hard core bodybuilders have started this whole era of weight training and fitness.this whole fitness industry exist today is because of the work of great bodybuilders like sandow..reg park ...steve reevs ...arnold..etc
I wonder what exercise or type of lift the machine had you do.
From what I saw it's most likely something with grip strength. But perhaps could've also been pulling strength.
Listened to this on my way back from the gym. Super interesting stuff! I never knew the story about him breaking all those machines, that’s crazy😂
My hero
impressive physique ☮☮
Eugene Sandow estaba uno del mejor bodybuilders en la mundo . Sandow es un verdadero boybuilder.
Imagine such fabulous body at that time
It reminds me that one video of Pewdiepie were he showed a picture taken from a schulptur depicting a naturally muscluar man, as an example for Pewdiepie's astethic goals
How can someone make his waist wide (instead the common v shape nowadays)? Is it genetic or is it achievable by exercise and lifting?
I'm aiming for a physique that is somewhere between a silver back gorilla and Greek statues. That wasn't my orginal goal, that's just what happened
he has the best and only strongman with the muscle control in his posing.more reason for joe weider to aymbolize his stardom via the mr.olympia trophy.
Back then he was an actual super human
I think what separates Sandow from others is he's got a rectangle torso instead of a V shaped. I'm built with a rectangle torso myself. It's strange really cause you never quite achieve that "look" it seems you have small love handles at all times. Lol.
Wow he is 156 years old 😮