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2500 BCE
2500 BC
Persia required his citizens to train physically and even prescribed the fitness program. -
2478 BCE
About 4500s years ago
The earliest recorders of physical training were drawn on the walls of a funerary chapel in Ben-Hassan in Egypt -
1896 BCE
1896 BC
Strength was practiced all the way back in the Neolithic Era (the beginning of agriculture) -
776 BCE
776 BC
first traces of personal training when the ancient Greeks were preparing for the Olympic games. -
625 BCE
625 BC
A early competition involving athletes lifting big stones -
588 BCE
588 BC
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. -
200
200
Galen was a well know physician who played a key role in developing organized strength training routines utilizing tools like halters. -
1750-1840
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.” -
1840
Hippolyte Trait is the first person to open a commercial gym in Brussels, then Paris. -
1841
Sir George Williams founded a YMCA in London. -
1855
Muscular Christianity crossed the Atlantic and arrived in America. -
1860
Physical activity was included in all YMCA’s -
1914
Jack LaLanne (Godfather of fitness) was born in California. -
1920
Vaudevillian strongmen became a evolved sport -
1936
Jack Lalanne opens his first health club in the United States at the age of 22. -
1968
Dr. Ken H. Cooper (father of modern fitness) shifted people's thinking of disease treatment to disease prevention through exercise. -
1968
Dr. Ken H. Cooper used the term “aerobics” to show the world the movement of joggers in the U.S. -
1980s
Personal Training became a viable career path -
1996
National Strength and Conditioning Assocation (NSCA) required a personal training certification -
2000
Jan 2nd became the official personal trainer awareness day