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Johnny Tucker has the Seven Day Blues

Johnny Tucker has the Seven Day Blues

Imagine someone who had the kind of upbringing we tend to associate with the blues masters of old; now imagine that that person had absorbed the essence of the musicality and style of the 50s and 60s when the likes of Dixon, Fulson, Hooker and the Kings were at the height of their powers; imagine also that that person would be able to recreate those blues today in a way that sounds like it is…

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Vince McMahon's Failed Attempt to Take Over The World of Bodybuilding

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In the pre-internet age of April 1990, whispers began to circulate that Vince McMahon, head of the World Wrestling Federation (now WWE), was about to launch a bodybuilding magazine. The word was that it would act as a precursor to establishing a bodybuilding federation that would usurp the preeminence then enjoyed by the International Federation of Bodybuilders (IFBB). The WWF refuted claims of a new federation being launched, saying they only had plans to produce a magazine, and as part of their publishing team they hired Tom Platz, just about the most popular bodybuilder of that era. 

The new magazine was to be called Bodybuilding Lifestyles, and to promote its December 1990 release, McMahon hired booth space at that year’s Mr. Olympia contest, which was staged in Chicago. So it was on September 15 at the Windy City’s Arie Crown Theater, just as Lee Haney was awarded his seventh Sandow, a clutch of Bodybuilding Lifestyles personnel in Trojan horse fashion went around the audience handing out a press release announcing the launch of the World Bodybuilding Federation (WBF). The release stated that the WBF would "Revamp professional bodybuilding with dramatic new events and the richest prize money in the history of the sport."

THE WBF TEAM

Throughout the fall and winter of 1990, the WBF went on a recruiting drive flying top-class bodybuilders to their Stamford, CT headquarters to seal their individual deals. The fruits of their labors were finally presented at a lavish press conference staged at New York’s Plaza Hotel on January 13, 1991. There, McMahon introduced his WBF stable of 13 athletes. They were: Aaron Baker, Mike Christian, Vince Comerford, David Dearth, Berry DeMey, Johnnie Morant, Danny Padilla, Tony Pearson, Jim Quinn, Mike Quinn, Eddie Robinson, Gary Strydom, and Troy Zuccolotto.

The depth and quality of the WBF squad caused Joe Weider to sign more athletes at higher rates than had been the norm so as to keep them within the IFBB. McMahon had splurged megabucks to assemble his team, with Gary Strydom reportedly inking a three-year contract worth $400,000 per year. At the press conference, they announced their first World Championships would be held in Atlantic City on June 15, 1991, at the now-defunct Taj Mahal Casino, which was owned by Donald Trump at the time. They promised they would be making further signings but no more were ever made, although there was a highly publicized to-and-fro over obtaining Lou Ferrigno’s services before he decided to stay with the IFBB.

The Atlantic City contest on June 15 was heavily promoted through WWF’s mainstream TV programming, and it was a pay-per-view event. From the get-go, it was clear the WBF's approach to bodybuilding was focused more on showbiz than show-me-the-muscle. Before each competitor came onstage there was a two-minute video of each, highlighting the persona the WBF had attached to them. Thus, we had Troy Zuccolotto appearing as a California beach boy, complete with surfboard and four bikini-clad girls; Berry DeMey re-invented as a Dutch James Bond; Gary Strydom presented as a man-about town complete with top hat and cane. There were no direct muscle-group-to-muscle-group comparisons. The guys just posed, and then the results were announced: Strydom, first; Mike Christian, second; Berry DeMey, third. To seasoned bodybuilding fans, it was a farce. Despite almost universal criticism, the WBF pressed ahead and announced the 1992 World Championships would be held in Long Beach, CA.

THE SMOKING GUN

But even as the 1991 contest concluded, the WWF had become embroiled in an ever-widening drug scandal. It involved Dr. George Zahorian from Hershey, PA, who had been indicted for supplying performance-enhancing drugs to certain individuals. Among them were wrestlers Hulk Hogan, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, and a succession of other grapplers affiliated with the WWF. When the names of those wrestlers were made public in June 1991, it became mainstream news, with USA Today running a front-page story asking, “Hulk: Bulk from a Bottle?” On June 25, Zahorian was found guilty on multiple counts and sentenced to three years in prison.

Three weeks later, McMahon announced he would be invoking drug testing for his wrestlers. The WBF had avoided mainstream scrutiny but such is the steroid stereotype attached to bodybuilding that the last thing the WWF needed was to be connected with a sport notorious for drug use. It would be like Charlie Sheen claiming sobriety while purchasing a whisky distillery. 

Against that background, the 1992 WBF Championships still took place in Long Beach on June 13. Three months prior to the event, it was announced the WBF competitors would be drug tested. Sad to say, most of those that competed were far from their best as Strydom won again with Jim Quinn second and Aaron Baker third. It was the WBF’s death knell, and a month later, on July 15, McMahon placed a conference call to Joe and Ben Weider calling them the fathers of bodybuilding and informed them he was ceasing production of the bodybuilding magazine and closing down the WBF. It was reported that McMahon had lost $15 million due to his foray into bodybuilding.

In 1990, after the launch of the WBF, the IFBB announced that those joining the new organization would never be allowed to return to the IFBB. By February 1993, that ruling was rescinded but only on the condition that the former renegades pay a fine, which was 10 percent of whatever their WBF salaries were. Of the 13 WBF athletes, Mike Christian and Vince Comerford never competed again. And of those 11 who did renew their IFBB career, only Aaron Baker and Mike Quinn ever qualified for an Olympia.

Postscript: The 1991 Zahorian conviction led to further investigations and escalated to the level of McMahon being charged with conspiring to distribute drugs to WWE wrestlers. On July 23, 1994, after an 18-day trial he was acquitted of all charges.

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100 Years Ago, Bodybuilders Weren’t Nearly As Hulk-ish Or Orange

Over the years, bodybuilding has literally grown.

Bodybuilders are going big, bulkier and more orange as time betterments, and while it’s a part of our culture that many of us don’t really understand, bodybuilding — specially the Mr. America rivalry — reflects “a hoped image of modern maturity, ” John D. Fair writes in the introduced by Mr. America: The Tragic History Of A Bodybuilding Icon.

If guys want to beef up to meet some modern standard of usefulnes, why do they look like a medical instance of a person without surface, or that they’ve somehow revolved themselves inside-out?

“As societal attitudes toward the male torso and physical culture progressed, ” Fair writes, “bodybuilders had to redefine themselves in light of the conflict between venerated habits and concessions to current experiences. The Mr. America Contest, which once embodied the aspirations of tens of thousands of load trainees, was premised on adherence to time-honored values of health, fitness, allure, and athleticism, while Americans — and specially bodybuilders — became obsessed with looks and engaged in prepare practices and lifestyles that often subverted those standards. By the conclusion of its century, physique competitors and promoters seemed stumped about what constituted a perfect specimen of manhood. Supposing with these cultural wonders became the foremost refer in modern bodybuilding not only in the United States but worldwide, since the Mr. America title, at the least from the 1940 s to the 1970 s, was, like other parts of American culture, a world icon.”

It’s interesting to see just how much these perceptions of pure fitness have changed over the past 100 years, thanks to advances in supplements, workout material and our understanding of how the human body works.

It seems parties push these limits harder and farther each year, and when you look at the following pictures of guys at peak physical fitness over record( from a person who looks like Vladimir Putin sucking in his gut in 1900 to the sinewy muscles on show in 2015, you’ll discover just how much things have changed.

1900

Buyenlarge via Getty Images

A Russianbodybuilder, photographed in a studio circa 1900.

1905

Reinhold Thiele via Getty Images

A bodybuilder known asMr. Eggleton, the manager of Sandows physical institution in 1905.

1905

Reinhold Thiele via Getty Images

Mr. Murray, winner of the Sandow bodybuilding rival in 1905.

1937

New York Daily News Archive via Getty Images

Angelo Siciliano, known more famouslyasCharles Atlas, hoists fourRockettes, each weighing about 110 pounds, on the ceiling of Radio City Music Hall.

In his bodybuilding job, Atlas pioneered an early formation of isometrics and became known as the “World’s Most Perfectly Developed Man.”

1940

General Photographic Agency via Getty Images

A bodybuilder liftsweights in 1940.

1940

ASSOCIATED PRESS

John Grimekwins the award at the Mr. America competition in 1940 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The adjudicates said he was the”best has established and proportioned amateur athlete.”

1945

Hulton Archive via Getty Images

Charles Atlas flexeshis bicep while posing in a leopard periodical swimsuit on a rock-and-roll by the water’s border.

1949

Keystone-France via Getty Images

Grimek inspectscandidates emulating for the entitlement ofMr Muscle Great Britain in London.

1955

Alan Oxley via Getty Images

Bodybuilder Leo Robert, owner of the Mr. Universe title in 1955, checks out his thought in a large gym mirror.

1955

BIPS via Getty Images

English bodybuilder Reg Parkflexes his muscles as his wife, Southern african ballet dancer Marion Park, practises in the background. Park was the first Englishman to acquire the Mr. Universe title and later went on to act in five Italian Hercules sword-and-sandal movies in the early 1960 s. Park ranhis own industries, publicizing a bodybuilding periodical and affording weight-training gear.

1956

Keystone via Getty Images

Former Mr. America Jack Delinger flexedmuscles forMrs.Sheila Saunders, whose husband played in the “Mr. Universe” in London in 1956.

1960

Silver Screen Collection via Getty Images

American bodybuilder and performer Steve Reeves regards up the worldin 1960.

1965

Archive Photos via Getty Images

Portrait of actor and mas builder Lou Ferrigno, who would find honour as television’s The Hulk, in his second form in MTI as “Boy Wonder, ” circa 1965.

1965

Michael Ochs Archives via Getty Images

Arnold Schwarzenegger, here simply 18 years old, face-lift a pal in Thal, Austria.

1965

Jack Mitchell via Getty Images

Model and bodybuilder Tony Catanzaro photographed in April, 1965.

1966

Michael Ochs Archives via Getty Images

A year later, Schwarzenegger poses his bigger muscles for a description circa 1966 in Austria.

1969

Jack Mitchell via Getty Images

Bodybuilder Paul Zuckerman in 1969.

1970

MARTY LEDERHANDLER/ AP

Chris Dickerson, 30, flexes his biceps as he poses with his Mr. America 1970 accolade in his New York City apartment on July 10, 1970. He won the race in Los Angeles, June 14, 1970.

1976

Keystone via Getty Images

Serge Nubretflexes his muscles during the preliminary gauge theatre ofthe 1976 Mr.Universe contest.

1976

David Ashdown via Getty Images

Shigeru Sugita, a Japanese contestant Mr. Nature struggle at London’s New Victoria theatre.

1979

Jack Mitchell via Getty Images

Professional bodybuilder Frank Zane photographed in 1979.

1980

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Bodybuilding World Champion Sergio Oliva constitutes on the platform after he won the Bodybuilding Professional Championships, November8, 1980, in Paris, France.

1985

Jack Mitchell via Getty Images

Bodybuilder and modeling Von Hackendahl photographed in February, 1985.

1985

Tony Bock via Getty Images

Bodybuilder Tony Pearson illustrates a dumbbell technique in 1985.

1993

Antonio RIBEIRO via Getty Images

Manfred Hoeberl promotes a cube at the World’s Strongest Man contest in Orange, France on August 30, 1993.

1995

ullstein bild via Getty Images

German Bodybuilder Rolf Evers in1 995.

1996

Mel Melcon via Getty Images

Bodybuilders Tammi Singer, 29, of Oxnard, California, and John Bezerra, 28, of Ventura, strike a pose outside of Gold’s Gym in Ventura. They triumphed first place in the National Physique Committee’s mixed duets competition in Dallas in 1996.

2001

NBC via Getty Images

Geena Davis searches on as Bodybuilder Mr. Olympia Ronnie Coleman pinches his muscles during an interview with emcee Jay Leno on November 27, 2001.

2001

Robert Cianflone via Getty Images

Dallas Scholes educates himself for the Men’s Masters division prior to the pre-judging slouse of the NPC-IFBB 2001 Victorian Body Building Championships, held at the Darebin Arts Centre, in Melbourne, Australia.

2003

Robert Cianflone via Getty Images

Claude Groulx, John Davie and Troy Alves in action during the finals of the Australian Pro Bodybuilding Grand Prix three at the John Batman Theatre in Melbourne, Australia.

2004

Ronnie Bianco/ Reuters

Jay Cutler of Las Vegasperforms his number for the crowd and judges atthe finals of the 16 th Arnold Classic, duringthe Arnold Fitness Weekend held at Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Columbus Ohio, March 6, 2004. Hewent on to win the bodybuilding rival.

2013

Robert Cianflone via Getty Images

Edward Nunn, Tony Freeman and Dexter Jackson constitute during the IFBB Australia Pro Grand Prix XIII at The Plenary on March 9, 2013 in Melbourne, Australia.

2013

Marcel Thomas via Getty Images

Four-time Mr. Olympia Jay Cutler poses on stagecoach during the 2013 NPC Jay Cutler Desert Classic at The Pearl concert theater at the Palms Casino Resort on March 30, 2013 in Las Vegas.

2015

Dave Kotinsky via Getty Images

Dexter Jackson( left ), winnerof the Arnold Classic 2015 and secondplace win Branch Warren poseonstage at the Arnold Sports Festival.

2015

YASUYOSHI CHIBA via Getty Images

Professional bodybuilders constitute on stagecoach during a competition at the Arnold Classic Brazil 2015 in Rio de Janeiroon May 30, 2015. The thirdannual multi-disciplinary athletics competition is mentioned after — who else, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Correction: A photo incorrectly mentioning Lee Haney has been removed.

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Summer Camp Counselors - Hope 7 Community Center

For 50 years, Hope 7 Community Center has had the pleasure and privilege of enhancing the quality of life for thousands of children and families in Troy, NY. We continue to add new elements to our programs to enrich lives and offer youth the opportunities to tap into their inner talents, while at the same time, assist them in developing social skills and tackling educational challenges. If you share our passion and commitment to provide a safe, nurturing, stimulating, and challenging environment for today youth, ages 5-15, from diverse backgrounds, we would welcome your talents in our After School, Traveling Summer Day Camp, and Teen Night programs which serve 150-200 children annually. Our agency also has other human service programs under separate direction. Qualifications/Requirements as per NYS Regulations and Hope 7 Expectations: -Minimum Associates Degree in Child Related Field, or NYS SACC or Childrens Program Admin. Credential. -Minimum 2 year experience working with 5-13 age group AND 1 year supervisory experience. -Minimum 3 professional references. -Ability to pass NYS clearances for child abuse, criminal history, medical exam. -Proficiency in all Microsoft Office programs. -Valid Drivers License with reliable vehicle. -Ability to supervise outdoor recreation program for 10 week summer session held at NYS Park sites. -35 to 40 hours weekly with some early evening and occasional Saturday AM for Teen Program during school year and full 40 hours for summer session. Position Duties: -Responsible for development, execution, and supervision of all youth program activities. -Compliance with all NYS regulations, record keeping, and license requirements. -Train, assist, and supervise all staff (5-8 part-time) and volunteers in youth programs. -Act as liaison and primary contact for parent interaction. -Assist with planning and execution of all fundraising events/campaigns/activities. -Order all program, office, and building related supplies. -Work collaboratively with, and under direct supervision of, Deputy Director. Personal Attributes for Successful Directorship: -Deep rooted compassion for children from all backgrounds and with varied needs. -Inspired to make a difference in childrens lives. -Consistency in following established procedures. -Adaptability to respond calmly and efficiently to unexpected and inopportune glitches in routine. -Excellence in time management, organization, and attention to detail. -Diplomatic yet definitive in communication with children, co-workers, and families. -An independent, creative, yet realistic thinker and planner. -Highly reliable and punctual. -Have a great sense of humor-always a necessity! Inspired to commit to this rewarding position? Compensation commensurate with experience. Please send resume with cover letter, to Phyllis Sandow at hope7cc@gmail.com. For agency overview visit www.hopeseven.com . Hope 7 is an EOE

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100 Years Ago, Bodybuilders Weren’t Nearly As Hulk-ish Or Orange

Over the years, bodybuilding has literally grown.

Bodybuilders are going big, bulkier and more orange as time betterments, and while it’s a part of our culture that many of us don’t really understand, bodybuilding — specially the Mr. America rivalry — reflects “a hoped image of modern maturity, ” John D. Fair writes in the introduced by Mr. America: The Tragic History Of A Bodybuilding Icon.

If guys want to beef up to meet some modern standard of usefulnes, why do they look like a medical instance of a person without surface, or that they’ve somehow revolved themselves inside-out?

“As societal attitudes toward the male torso and physical culture progressed, ” Fair writes, “bodybuilders had to redefine themselves in light of the conflict between venerated habits and concessions to current experiences. The Mr. America Contest, which once embodied the aspirations of tens of thousands of load trainees, was premised on adherence to time-honored values of health, fitness, allure, and athleticism, while Americans — and specially bodybuilders — became obsessed with looks and engaged in prepare practices and lifestyles that often subverted those standards. By the conclusion of its century, physique competitors and promoters seemed stumped about what constituted a perfect specimen of manhood. Supposing with these cultural wonders became the foremost refer in modern bodybuilding not only in the United States but worldwide, since the Mr. America title, at the least from the 1940 s to the 1970 s, was, like other parts of American culture, a world icon.”

It’s interesting to see just how much these perceptions of pure fitness have changed over the past 100 years, thanks to advances in supplements, workout material and our understanding of how the human body works.

It seems parties push these limits harder and farther each year, and when you look at the following pictures of guys at peak physical fitness over record( from a person who looks like Vladimir Putin sucking in his gut in 1900 to the sinewy muscles on show in 2015, you’ll discover just how much things have changed.

1900

Buyenlarge via Getty Images

A Russianbodybuilder, photographed in a studio circa 1900.

1905

Reinhold Thiele via Getty Images

A bodybuilder known asMr. Eggleton, the manager of Sandows physical institution in 1905.

1905

Reinhold Thiele via Getty Images

Mr. Murray, winner of the Sandow bodybuilding rival in 1905.

1937

New York Daily News Archive via Getty Images

Angelo Siciliano, known more famouslyasCharles Atlas, hoists fourRockettes, each weighing about 110 pounds, on the ceiling of Radio City Music Hall.

In his bodybuilding job, Atlas pioneered an early formation of isometrics and became known as the “World’s Most Perfectly Developed Man.”

1940

General Photographic Agency via Getty Images

A bodybuilder liftsweights in 1940.

1940

ASSOCIATED PRESS

John Grimekwins the award at the Mr. America competition in 1940 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The adjudicates said he was the”best has established and proportioned amateur athlete.”

1945

Hulton Archive via Getty Images

Charles Atlas flexeshis bicep while posing in a leopard periodical swimsuit on a rock-and-roll by the water’s border.

1949

Keystone-France via Getty Images

Grimek inspectscandidates emulating for the entitlement ofMr Muscle Great Britain in London.

1955

Alan Oxley via Getty Images

Bodybuilder Leo Robert, owner of the Mr. Universe title in 1955, checks out his thought in a large gym mirror.

1955

BIPS via Getty Images

English bodybuilder Reg Parkflexes his muscles as his wife, Southern african ballet dancer Marion Park, practises in the background. Park was the first Englishman to acquire the Mr. Universe title and later went on to act in five Italian Hercules sword-and-sandal movies in the early 1960 s. Park ranhis own industries, publicizing a bodybuilding periodical and affording weight-training gear.

1956

Keystone via Getty Images

Former Mr. America Jack Delinger flexedmuscles forMrs.Sheila Saunders, whose husband played in the “Mr. Universe” in London in 1956.

1960

Silver Screen Collection via Getty Images

American bodybuilder and performer Steve Reeves regards up the worldin 1960.

1965

Archive Photos via Getty Images

Portrait of actor and mas builder Lou Ferrigno, who would find honour as television’s The Hulk, in his second form in MTI as “Boy Wonder, ” circa 1965.

1965

Michael Ochs Archives via Getty Images

Arnold Schwarzenegger, here simply 18 years old, face-lift a pal in Thal, Austria.

1965

Jack Mitchell via Getty Images

Model and bodybuilder Tony Catanzaro photographed in April, 1965.

1966

Michael Ochs Archives via Getty Images

A year later, Schwarzenegger poses his bigger muscles for a description circa 1966 in Austria.

1969

Jack Mitchell via Getty Images

Bodybuilder Paul Zuckerman in 1969.

1970

MARTY LEDERHANDLER/ AP

Chris Dickerson, 30, flexes his biceps as he poses with his Mr. America 1970 accolade in his New York City apartment on July 10, 1970. He won the race in Los Angeles, June 14, 1970.

1976

Keystone via Getty Images

Serge Nubretflexes his muscles during the preliminary gauge theatre ofthe 1976 Mr.Universe contest.

1976

David Ashdown via Getty Images

Shigeru Sugita, a Japanese contestant Mr. Nature struggle at London’s New Victoria theatre.

1979

Jack Mitchell via Getty Images

Professional bodybuilder Frank Zane photographed in 1979.

1980

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Bodybuilding World Champion Sergio Oliva constitutes on the platform after he won the Bodybuilding Professional Championships, November8, 1980, in Paris, France.

1985

Jack Mitchell via Getty Images

Bodybuilder and modeling Von Hackendahl photographed in February, 1985.

1985

Tony Bock via Getty Images

Bodybuilder Tony Pearson illustrates a dumbbell technique in 1985.

1993

Antonio RIBEIRO via Getty Images

Manfred Hoeberl promotes a cube at the World’s Strongest Man contest in Orange, France on August 30, 1993.

1995

ullstein bild via Getty Images

German Bodybuilder Rolf Evers in1 995.

1996

Mel Melcon via Getty Images

Bodybuilders Tammi Singer, 29, of Oxnard, California, and John Bezerra, 28, of Ventura, strike a pose outside of Gold’s Gym in Ventura. They triumphed first place in the National Physique Committee’s mixed duets competition in Dallas in 1996.

2001

NBC via Getty Images

Geena Davis searches on as Bodybuilder Mr. Olympia Ronnie Coleman pinches his muscles during an interview with emcee Jay Leno on November 27, 2001.

2001

Robert Cianflone via Getty Images

Dallas Scholes educates himself for the Men’s Masters division prior to the pre-judging slouse of the NPC-IFBB 2001 Victorian Body Building Championships, held at the Darebin Arts Centre, in Melbourne, Australia.

2003

Robert Cianflone via Getty Images

Claude Groulx, John Davie and Troy Alves in action during the finals of the Australian Pro Bodybuilding Grand Prix three at the John Batman Theatre in Melbourne, Australia.

2004

Ronnie Bianco/ Reuters

Jay Cutler of Las Vegasperforms his number for the crowd and judges atthe finals of the 16 th Arnold Classic, duringthe Arnold Fitness Weekend held at Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Columbus Ohio, March 6, 2004. Hewent on to win the bodybuilding rival.

2013

Robert Cianflone via Getty Images

Edward Nunn, Tony Freeman and Dexter Jackson constitute during the IFBB Australia Pro Grand Prix XIII at The Plenary on March 9, 2013 in Melbourne, Australia.

2013

Marcel Thomas via Getty Images

Four-time Mr. Olympia Jay Cutler poses on stagecoach during the 2013 NPC Jay Cutler Desert Classic at The Pearl concert theater at the Palms Casino Resort on March 30, 2013 in Las Vegas.

2015

Dave Kotinsky via Getty Images

Dexter Jackson( left ), winnerof the Arnold Classic 2015 and secondplace win Branch Warren poseonstage at the Arnold Sports Festival.

2015

YASUYOSHI CHIBA via Getty Images

Professional bodybuilders constitute on stagecoach during a competition at the Arnold Classic Brazil 2015 in Rio de Janeiroon May 30, 2015. The thirdannual multi-disciplinary athletics competition is mentioned after — who else, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Correction: A photo incorrectly mentioning Lee Haney has been removed.

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100 Years Ago, Bodybuilders Weren’t Nearly As Hulk-ish Or Orange

Over the years, bodybuilding has literally grown.

Bodybuilders are going big, bulkier and more orange as time betterments, and while it’s a part of our culture that many of us don’t really understand, bodybuilding — specially the Mr. America rivalry — reflects “a hoped image of modern maturity, ” John D. Fair writes in the introduced by Mr. America: The Tragic History Of A Bodybuilding Icon.

If guys want to beef up to meet some modern standard of usefulnes, why do they look like a medical instance of a person without surface, or that they’ve somehow revolved themselves inside-out?

“As societal attitudes toward the male torso and physical culture progressed, ” Fair writes, “bodybuilders had to redefine themselves in light of the conflict between venerated habits and concessions to current experiences. The Mr. America Contest, which once embodied the aspirations of tens of thousands of load trainees, was premised on adherence to time-honored values of health, fitness, allure, and athleticism, while Americans — and specially bodybuilders — became obsessed with looks and engaged in prepare practices and lifestyles that often subverted those standards. By the conclusion of its century, physique competitors and promoters seemed stumped about what constituted a perfect specimen of manhood. Supposing with these cultural wonders became the foremost refer in modern bodybuilding not only in the United States but worldwide, since the Mr. America title, at the least from the 1940 s to the 1970 s, was, like other parts of American culture, a world icon.”

It’s interesting to see just how much these perceptions of pure fitness have changed over the past 100 years, thanks to advances in supplements, workout material and our understanding of how the human body works.

It seems parties push these limits harder and farther each year, and when you look at the following pictures of guys at peak physical fitness over record( from a person who looks like Vladimir Putin sucking in his gut in 1900 to the sinewy muscles on show in 2015, you’ll discover just how much things have changed.

1900

Buyenlarge via Getty Images

A Russianbodybuilder, photographed in a studio circa 1900.

1905

Reinhold Thiele via Getty Images

A bodybuilder known asMr. Eggleton, the manager of Sandows physical institution in 1905.

1905

Reinhold Thiele via Getty Images

Mr. Murray, winner of the Sandow bodybuilding rival in 1905.

1937

New York Daily News Archive via Getty Images

Angelo Siciliano, known more famouslyasCharles Atlas, hoists fourRockettes, each weighing about 110 pounds, on the ceiling of Radio City Music Hall.

In his bodybuilding job, Atlas pioneered an early formation of isometrics and became known as the “World’s Most Perfectly Developed Man.”

1940

General Photographic Agency via Getty Images

A bodybuilder liftsweights in 1940.

1940

ASSOCIATED PRESS

John Grimekwins the award at the Mr. America competition in 1940 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The adjudicates said he was the”best has established and proportioned amateur athlete.”

1945

Hulton Archive via Getty Images

Charles Atlas flexeshis bicep while posing in a leopard periodical swimsuit on a rock-and-roll by the water’s border.

1949

Keystone-France via Getty Images

Grimek inspectscandidates emulating for the entitlement ofMr Muscle Great Britain in London.

1955

Alan Oxley via Getty Images

Bodybuilder Leo Robert, owner of the Mr. Universe title in 1955, checks out his thought in a large gym mirror.

1955

BIPS via Getty Images

English bodybuilder Reg Parkflexes his muscles as his wife, Southern african ballet dancer Marion Park, practises in the background. Park was the first Englishman to acquire the Mr. Universe title and later went on to act in five Italian Hercules sword-and-sandal movies in the early 1960 s. Park ranhis own industries, publicizing a bodybuilding periodical and affording weight-training gear.

1956

Keystone via Getty Images

Former Mr. America Jack Delinger flexedmuscles forMrs.Sheila Saunders, whose husband played in the “Mr. Universe” in London in 1956.

1960

Silver Screen Collection via Getty Images

American bodybuilder and performer Steve Reeves regards up the worldin 1960.

1965

Archive Photos via Getty Images

Portrait of actor and mas builder Lou Ferrigno, who would find honour as television’s The Hulk, in his second form in MTI as “Boy Wonder, ” circa 1965.

1965

Michael Ochs Archives via Getty Images

Arnold Schwarzenegger, here simply 18 years old, face-lift a pal in Thal, Austria.

1965

Jack Mitchell via Getty Images

Model and bodybuilder Tony Catanzaro photographed in April, 1965.

1966

Michael Ochs Archives via Getty Images

A year later, Schwarzenegger poses his bigger muscles for a description circa 1966 in Austria.

1969

Jack Mitchell via Getty Images

Bodybuilder Paul Zuckerman in 1969.

1970

MARTY LEDERHANDLER/ AP

Chris Dickerson, 30, flexes his biceps as he poses with his Mr. America 1970 accolade in his New York City apartment on July 10, 1970. He won the race in Los Angeles, June 14, 1970.

1976

Keystone via Getty Images

Serge Nubretflexes his muscles during the preliminary gauge theatre ofthe 1976 Mr.Universe contest.

1976

David Ashdown via Getty Images

Shigeru Sugita, a Japanese contestant Mr. Nature struggle at London’s New Victoria theatre.

1979

Jack Mitchell via Getty Images

Professional bodybuilder Frank Zane photographed in 1979.

1980

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Bodybuilding World Champion Sergio Oliva constitutes on the platform after he won the Bodybuilding Professional Championships, November8, 1980, in Paris, France.

1985

Jack Mitchell via Getty Images

Bodybuilder and modeling Von Hackendahl photographed in February, 1985.

1985

Tony Bock via Getty Images

Bodybuilder Tony Pearson illustrates a dumbbell technique in 1985.

1993

Antonio RIBEIRO via Getty Images

Manfred Hoeberl promotes a cube at the World’s Strongest Man contest in Orange, France on August 30, 1993.

1995

ullstein bild via Getty Images

German Bodybuilder Rolf Evers in1 995.

1996

Mel Melcon via Getty Images

Bodybuilders Tammi Singer, 29, of Oxnard, California, and John Bezerra, 28, of Ventura, strike a pose outside of Gold’s Gym in Ventura. They triumphed first place in the National Physique Committee’s mixed duets competition in Dallas in 1996.

2001

NBC via Getty Images

Geena Davis searches on as Bodybuilder Mr. Olympia Ronnie Coleman pinches his muscles during an interview with emcee Jay Leno on November 27, 2001.

2001

Robert Cianflone via Getty Images

Dallas Scholes educates himself for the Men’s Masters division prior to the pre-judging slouse of the NPC-IFBB 2001 Victorian Body Building Championships, held at the Darebin Arts Centre, in Melbourne, Australia.

2003

Robert Cianflone via Getty Images

Claude Groulx, John Davie and Troy Alves in action during the finals of the Australian Pro Bodybuilding Grand Prix three at the John Batman Theatre in Melbourne, Australia.

2004

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Jay Cutler of Las Vegasperforms his number for the crowd and judges atthe finals of the 16 th Arnold Classic, duringthe Arnold Fitness Weekend held at Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Columbus Ohio, March 6, 2004. Hewent on to win the bodybuilding rival.

2013

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Edward Nunn, Tony Freeman and Dexter Jackson constitute during the IFBB Australia Pro Grand Prix XIII at The Plenary on March 9, 2013 in Melbourne, Australia.

2013

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Four-time Mr. Olympia Jay Cutler poses on stagecoach during the 2013 NPC Jay Cutler Desert Classic at The Pearl concert theater at the Palms Casino Resort on March 30, 2013 in Las Vegas.

2015

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Dexter Jackson( left ), winnerof the Arnold Classic 2015 and secondplace win Branch Warren poseonstage at the Arnold Sports Festival.

2015

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Professional bodybuilders constitute on stagecoach during a competition at the Arnold Classic Brazil 2015 in Rio de Janeiroon May 30, 2015. The thirdannual multi-disciplinary athletics competition is mentioned after — who else, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Correction: A photo incorrectly mentioning Lee Haney has been removed.

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