Origins, Eugen Sandow continued

Eugen Sandow began travelling Europe performing for massive crowds. He then traveled to America where he performed at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. he performed in a black velvet lined box with his body covered in chalk powder to even greater resemble the statues he modeled himself after. he also started a magazine called Sandow and it was a fitness magazine. He started his own bodybuilding show in 1891 called "The Great Show" it took him three years of planning. It was held in the United Kingdom the total prize money added up to $5000. He died in 1925 at the age of 58, there is an urban legend that he died trying to lift his car out of a ditch but he died because of syphilis.