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Bodybuilding History - Bronze & Silver Era Enthusiast

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Silver Era bodybuilder Bert Elliott

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Ewald Redan is a forgotten Bronze Era lifter that lives on as a Greek God posing on top of Dresden's Rathausturm (Town Hall)

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Early 20th century German weightlifter Ewald Redam was a goddamn MONSTER! Steroids were not even invented until decades after this photo.

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Young Bill Pearl at the 1953 Mr. universe

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How aesthetics changed during the early pre-steroid days of Bodybuilding

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@Lexigreats I did a bit of searching but I couldn't find anything, maybe someone else knows

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A Russian Bodybuilder, C. 1913

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@Lexigreats Well spotted!💪

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A young Bronze Era legend is in this pic, can you spot him? 👀

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The First Female Bodybuilding Show (1903)

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🇫🇮Finnish wrestler Iivari Tuomisto

1906 Finnish wrestling champion
1907 Russian wrestling champion
1915 World wrestling champion

He later became a police officer and by 1929 he was the police chief of the city of Lahti.

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Steve Reeves was already looking insanely aesthetic at 17 years old. We shouldn’t use genetics as a cope but we must also recognize the impact it can have in producing some of the best of the best physiques. He was definitely born to be a bodybuilder!

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The roid raging junkie that throat punched @JeffNippard the other day is also responsible for this timeless clip...

Brain rot much? 🤡

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This was the true Golden Era of bodybuilding and no combination of words can convince me otherwise