The first ever American body building contest was held at New York's Madison Square Garden on January 16 1904. Al Treloar won the $ 1, 000 cash prize after being declared the Most Perfectly Developed Man in the World. Thomas Edison launched a film featuring the posing style of Treloar, Fourteen days later.

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Body building is reputed to have begun in the west between 1880 and 1930. Body building as the art of displaying the well formed and toned muscles is not known to have existed before the 19th century. The history of body building is synonymous with its reputed pioneer, from Prussia, Germany. The German, Eugen Sandow is generally referred to as the father of contemporary bodybuilding.

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