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Persia required his citizens to train physically and even prescribed the fitness program.
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The earliest recorders of physical training were drawn on the walls of a funerary chapel in Ben-Hassan in Egypt
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Strength was practiced all the way back in the Neolithic Era (the beginning of agriculture)
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first traces of personal training when the ancient Greeks were preparing for the Olympic games.
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A early competition involving athletes lifting big stones
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Milo a very famous ancient strength athlete who was born in Crotone, in the district of Calabria in Southern Italy. Milo invited progressive resistance training. He showed this by shouldering and carrying a calf the full length of a stadium at Olympia. He did this until the cow was 4 years old. Showing his progressing resistance training.
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Galen was a well know physician who played a key role in developing organized strength training routines utilizing tools like halters.
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Germany and Sweden were the leading forces in fitness with the main two individuals being Johnan GutsMuths and Friedrich Jahn. Also known as the “grandfathers of German Gymnastics.”
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Hippolyte Trait is the first person to open a commercial gym in Brussels, then Paris.
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Sir George Williams founded a YMCA in London.
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Muscular Christianity crossed the Atlantic and arrived in America.
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Physical activity was included in all YMCA’s
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Jack LaLanne (Godfather of fitness) was born in California.
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Vaudevillian strongmen became a evolved sport
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Jack Lalanne opens his first health club in the United States at the age of 22.
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Dr. Ken H. Cooper (father of modern fitness) shifted people's thinking of disease treatment to disease prevention through exercise.
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Dr. Ken H. Cooper used the term “aerobics” to show the world the movement of joggers in the U.S.
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Personal Training became a viable career path
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National Strength and Conditioning Assocation (NSCA) required a personal training certification
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Jan 2nd became the official personal trainer awareness day