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There are many great careers. When you explore their beginnings, you will always find that the grand starting point is only So a little rubbish.
Who is the starting point of Chinese bodybuilding?
This name may be very strange to you, Zhao Zhuguang.
Just such a stranger, directly rewrote the history of Chinese bodybuilding.
He was born in the new year of the Qing Dynasty Xuantong, 1909 AD in Guangdong Yes, died in 1991.
The Republic of China is a very magical period in Chinese history. In a short period of time, heroes and traitors appeared in large numbers, and various thoughts were intertwined, full of decadence and positive.
Before the 18th year of the Republic of China, that is, before Zhao Zhuguang was 20 years old, he was an ordinary person who was unknown and no one cared about, and he was even worse than ordinary people. His 4-year-old father smuggled to the United States to work as a Chinese worker. He died as a guest and his 10-year-old mother also passed away due to illness.
lacks the father's strong family income and the mother's caring care, and it is reasonable to be physically weak. He grew up with his grandparents and completed middle school with the support of his father, brothers and sisters. He is particularly fond of literature.
In 1929, he came to Shanghai and was admitted to the Shanghai University of Shanghai, which is now the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology by the Huangpu River. . During the schooling stage, he managed to maintain his university life in a frail and sickly condition by writing articles and working as a handyman.
himself wrote in his book: "I am by no means a person who is so easily succumbed to fate. Although when I am distressed, I still inevitably ran to the riverside to cry in the silent night , But I cried and still clenched my teeth to work hard."
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During his studies, he got a book "Muscle Development Law" that changed his life. This is a correspondence teaching material for American fitness institutes. Zhao Zhuguang came into contact with it and was the first to translate it himself. Fitness book.
At that time, one of his classmates was an overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia. The classmate gave him this book, and the two trained together through research skills.
Under the Western training system at the time, Zhao Zhuguang's physical condition improved significantly, and his muscle strength quickly began to show. This change has attracted the attention of students.
So everyone followed Zhao Zhuguang to train and formed a training group.
"Looking at a group of foreigners playing baseball, I found that foreign athletes have big physiques, but the Chinese are very small and pitiful, and they feel uncomfortable. After returning to school, he boldly proposed to the school to open a compulsory physical education subject. The school opened a fitness class and arranged a gym for more than 80 people."
The predecessor of Hujiang University is At the church university founded by the Americans, many students had strong English skills at the time, and there were many foreign trainers and English training materials they could get in touch with.
So Zhao Zhuguang organized everyone to go to every foreign fitness center in Shanghai to study, and then compiled the materials obtained. Choose effective methods and compile training courses.
At the same time, the school library is required to subscribe to the training magazine, and the uncle who went to the United States in the early years to buy books such as "Physical Exercise Law" and send them to China, and start a lot of sorting and translation.
As the knowledge system becomes more and more perfect, more and more people participate in the training group, Zhao Zhuguang applied to the school to formally establish the "Hujiang University Fitness meeting". At that time, he might not realize that this was the first fitness organization with modern significance in Asia.
This is a group photo when it was established. You can see the equipment configuration at that time, only dumbbells and simple barbells, and the weight of the barbell is also fixed
He also did not expect that the "fitness" he created would become a proper term and a social phenomenon that can be seen everywhere. (Many people find it very strange now. The English word for bodybuilding is clearly bodybuilding, which should be translated as "muscle building". Why is it translated into the word "bodybuilding" without mentioning beauty? Then you can answer this question now , Because Zhao Zhuguang decided bodybuilding=bodybuilding at that time, now it’s useless to refuse to accept it!)
He never thought about making big money or becoming famous. At that time, he thought of the health of all the people in China. The opening words of the Shanghai University Fitness Club wrote:
"This is our first sound, not the roar of the deer, but the roar of the giant lion, this kind of vitality, can It awakens those who are drunk, dreaming and dying. This is the gospel of forty-five million compatriots."
The bodybuilding club responded with great enthusiasm, and even received support from the government at one time, adding a lot of necessary equipment and hosting. Hire foreign teachers to teach.
In the 22nd year of the Republic of China, Zhao Zhuguang worked in a well-known commercial press. Edited and reviewed sports books in the library, and launched the "Health and Strength" magazine.
This is the first volume in December 1938.
The figure of Zhao Lao at that time is also printed in it
In the 28th year of the Republic of China, Shanghai Gymnasium was founded on Nanhui Road, Shanghai now. Because there were too many people participating, they moved to Nanjing West Road.
Six months later, it moved to North Shaanxi Road and the Shanghai Fitness Institute was formally established.
This is a special bodybuilding training class, the number of formal trainees reaches 600, some of which are included in correspondence studies. There are more than 2,000 foreign trainees in total, which can be regarded as the cultivation of talents for Chinese fitness.
The information comes from Tencent pictures
After the establishment of New China, Zhao Zhuguang was transferred to the deputy director of the Shanghai Sports Palace and the coach of the city weightlifting training class. In 1960, he taught at the Shanghai Institute of Physical Education. Joined the Communist Party of China in 1985.
Zhao Zhuguang has translated a large number of bodybuilding books "Sports Training and Health", "The Secret of Strength", "Muscle Development Problem Answers", "The Latest Dumbbell Exercise Method" "Wait dozens of books.
Awareness of muscle group at that time
Some of them are even used in military training. In theory, it has built the foundation for the Chinese people to learn bodybuilding.
Even in his seventies, Zhao is still afflicted by nasopharyngeal cancer After writing two bodybuilding books, I even insisted on exercising 3-5 times a week. "I just want to compete with the cancer demon."
A lifetime achievement in the car-carrying capacity, sowing the bodybuilding spark can start a prairie fire.
Zeng Weiqi (1916-1996), director of the Bodybuilding Committee of China Weightlifting Association, was the first member to join Zhao Zhuguang’s "Shanghai Bodybuilding Club" and co-founded China’s earliest bodybuilding competition with Zhao Zhuguang. Time is earlier than the popular Olympic Games.
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Professor Lou Zhuoyu (1925-2005), the father of Chinese bodybuilding, greatly promoted the integration of Chinese bodybuilding with international standards.
has cultivated a lot of bodybuilding, and now many athletes of the older generation have learned from him, teacher Shui Tianhui and teacher Zhang Ping. The place where Professor Lou Zhuoyu started to learn bodybuilding is in the "modern gymnasium" founded by Zeng Weiqi's predecessors.
The famous bodybuilding magazine FLEX special report for the teacher Lou Zhuoyu
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I would like to thank you all for your great contribution to the industry. If you have the opportunity, I will finish it slowly.
Also thanks to the archives of the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Lantai World Magazine, Liu Shujuan and Zhang Huaming, authors of "The First Bodybuilder in China". I referenced and even quoted many of their materials directly. Thank them for their record of the history of Chinese bodybuilding, for giving me the opportunity to tell fans such a history that is not thrilling but profound.
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