Sandow is on the Olympia trophy. I doubt you could call the turn of the century modern bodybuilding.
Side note: There is a good website if you like to check out the old time bodybuilding (physical culture) books.
www.sandowplus.co.uk
“I doubt you could call the turn of the century modern bodybuilding.”
Without Sandow, could we have had Joe Weider? I’ve heard Sandow called the Father of modern bodybuilding on many occasions, by body builders themselves, and articles on the subject. Yes, it’s more than a hundred years old, but his system and work led to what we have today.