Eugen Sandow (1867—1925)

[...]Sandow lifted 150 pounds straight over his head, but Samson failed to replicate the feat. By prescribing his own products, like Sandow's Combined Developer and Sandow's Grip Dumbbells, to treat "constipation, indigestion, insomnia, loss of vigour, nervous & functional disorde...

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Published in:Victorian review 2011-04, Vol.37 (1), p.37-41
Main Author: CROMPTON, CONSTANCE
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aesthetics
Arm
Bodybuilding
British & Irish literature
Disorders
English literature
Femininity
FORUM: Eminent Victorians
Gender identity
Heroes
Masculinity
Men
Museum exhibits
Museums
Physicians
Statues
Strength training
Utopianism
Victorians
Wells, H G (1866-1946)
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Summary:[...]Sandow lifted 150 pounds straight over his head, but Samson failed to replicate the feat. By prescribing his own products, like Sandow's Combined Developer and Sandow's Grip Dumbbells, to treat "constipation, indigestion, insomnia, loss of vigour, nervous & functional disorders" (Body-Building viii), Sandow invited his readers to think of him as physician. Building muscles, he assured his readers, would result in a class-appropriate body because bodybuilding required a cultivated mind and body. In 1901, he was hired by Edwin Ray Lankester, head of the British Museum's Natural History division, to model for the statue representing "European man" in an exhibit "displaying all the major races of the world" ("Sandow in Plaster" 461).
ISSN:0848-1512
1923-3280
1923-3280
DOI:10.1353/vcr.2011.0029