A fitting tribute to an absolute titan of fitness history

What a great story Rest In Power Sandow

we need a new sandow. With no steroids just pure nature strength

What you guys are doing for strength sports is truly fantastic, thank you!

This is great. The production value ie over the moon.

Top notch film, just like Stoneland was. Can't wait for more, Rogue! Well done.

Eugen Sandow was called out by Louis Cyr when he called himself the strongest man on earth. Sandow stopped referring to himself as the WSM after Cyr to offense to it and challenged him in public. However, Sandow was the first of the old guys I've ever seen who had a body builder type of physique

You guys are killing it with the documentaries. Love this stuff. Thanks for producing them.

Very inspiring. I wonder why his wife hated him so much that she wouldn't even allow for his resting place to be marked in any way. So very sad. I'm glad it was finally done. Nobody is perfect and I don't what what his mistakes were, but we do know all the good and great things he did and that alone is well enough reason for him to be remembered by everyone who would know.

I can't wait for the rest of this series.

Fantastic series of documentaries, thanks to Rouge and the team for making these.

No doubt that he would've tried to lift the stone that currently marks his resting place.

a must watch for all bodybuilders!! no matter what size ,from bruce lee size to dorian yates! and everywere in between, thx so much to person who posted this and those who made this documentory,,,,thx a million

can't wait for more of these to come

This is a legend!

Thanks for letting me know why he had a horse in his act. I didn't realize until you told me.

These documentaries are amazing . Thank you

Thank you for posting this, I had no idea this guy really existed! His book is mentioned several times in Joyce’s Ulysses (Bloom keeps meaning to get back to doing the exercises) and it’s so interesting to find out about the actual author.

I love this documentary. My theories concerning his death, could've been due to a stroke or brain aneurysm. I say that due to him being older yet still trying to go as hard as he did in his youth.

Fantastic. Thank you for this great documentary.

Great doc inspiring what a terrible shame to have died like that but thankful we all know who this extraordinary man was. Like to think he could see from wherever he is the effect his existence left in our past present and future

These are fantastic. I've always been a fan of bronze age physical culture and its awesome to see such a big name fitness company paying tribute to these forgotten legends. Thank you.

What a great project! Thank you!

Fuck, that was amazing. another great doc by Rogue

Thank you Terry and Todd! I so fear this has been lost.

What a great job. I love history about our industry.

Incredible history behind of him and these times...Arthur Saxon next one PLEASE!!!

It's sad that you guys don't bring up the Light Dumbbell System, as what a lot of Strongman did at the time, taught by Professor Attila. It's really an interesting exercise routine to help build muscle, with it being better by adding heavy weight lifting afterwards as a supplement to the Light Dumbbell system.

So well made. Thank you

wonderful insights into the training and the man himself.

El creador de la verdadera muestra en escena de un hombre natural, de un hombre que su único objetivo fue ser aquel cuerpo musculado al detalle que de niño vio en las estatuas y se maravilló! Gracias por ser un gran promotor de la salud fisica! 🕊️🙏

😍 thank u for making this

Incredible! Thank you for making this.

Bravo! Great piece; thank you Rogue!

Wow rouge. Great stuff! Keep at it

One of the best videos I've ever watched

Incredible story Incredible man

Really good documentry, can not wait for the next one.

Outstanding, thank you.

Great... love it

Another amazing story! Thanks!

I'm ready for a feature film

so good, Rogue! loving your video content!

Wonderful film! Thank you. I really enjoyed this.

Very inspiring! Excellent quality (as usual, of course)

Wow. Very nice. Beautifully filmed. Very interesting.

Amazing video can't wait for more

excellent! Great work!

Awesome.. Thank you! I really enjoyed it!

Can we get a Louis Cyr documentary? Ppplllzzzz love these stories so much! Great content Rogue! ❤

Wow! ☺️ this was amazing 🏆 Great documentary 👍👍

these are great and deserve more views.

awesome video Thankyou so much for posting

Very interesting and detailed documentary, thank you!

great!

this was so good

Please do more of these videos!

Great great video.

Fantástico primer episodio. :)

I would appreciate a video like this on Steve Reeves.

I'm impressed with Rogue for doing these high quality videos about current and past athletes. I never new about Sandow until now. Very good stuff, keep it coming.

very good material

That's a perfect body!

Now that’s the real strong 💪🏻 man bodybuilder right there Sandow is the real deal and he’s natural those other strong 💪🏻 men are natural too and they are the real deal too, not like today’s Sports everybody is on steroids 💉💊 It’s sad nobody wants to natural anymore.

Great video. I've got to say that some of the folk in it didn't seem to understand how to perform exercises with light bells though. To quote Sandow's system of physical training- the mind should be put in to the work... there must be a concentration of will power... the dumbells must not be held passively but as a potentiality to be strenuously and activity exerted... alternatively contracted and relaxed. End quote. Each exercise is performed to momentary muscular failure. His spring grip dumbells teach you how to tense the muscles being worked. I don't believe that they were a scam. I've used David Bolton's modern book on light dumbell exercises and it's great. I didn't get the results I'd hoped for, but couldn't exercise as much as I'd hoped. The routine is a more balanced than Sandow's IMHO.

16.16 David Webster's wig game is the strongest thing in this video.

Great story.

Thank you Rogue, such a well put together piece, really captures who Sandow was.

Hey, I noticed an error in the subtitles. The Belgian women is speaking about "Anvers" => Antwerp and not about "Versailles" :-)

💖💖💖 💗💗 🤠 🤠 I am hoping to show my transformation soon!

are there any copies of his exercise books still available these days? I sure would like a copy.

Awesome

To be fair, I grew up in rural America and there were lots of kids whose physiques were entirely genetic. They were faster runners, stronger lifters and all around better modeled human beings than the rest. Many of them ate anything they wanted but gained no fat, they smoked cigarettes and ran track and played football. Also, they were up at 4 AM milking cows, playing football or running track after school and some wrestled to state championships. On weekends the town kids who worked for their dads doing construction or pouring concrete could beat the dickens out of anyone who stayed in the gym lifting weights. There was NO CONTEST comparing the kids who were simply born well muscled and fit, and the rest of us, myself included, who tried all the latest shakes, and diets, and lifted weights. *it is worth noting that the really strong, fast, fit boys were always less than 6ft tall.

Great

This documentary omits a significant event in history when he visited a Sandwina event where he challenged her to a single-arm lift where she out lifted him with a 300 pound dumb bell which he could only raise to his shoulders.

I clicked 8K quality and my router started sweating.

Excellent project! Old-school is the best school, than you!

The physical inspiration for superman.

Edward Aston was only 77kg....but very strong. I liked the German guy as well....GERNER....very impressive strength Hackersmitt (may have spelt wrong) All pretty similiar..maybe some excelled in certain weights/lifts.....very impressive.

Does anyone know the music at the beginning?

*OG*

The screen ratio is weird... Looks as if there are always part of the images that were cut off.

Make one on the great gama will really appreciate it 🙏

awesome ¡¡¡¡

I love modern strongman, but there' something absolutely stunning in those early century muscular mustache men. Strong as horses but with the body harmony of greek statues. Something that should be the pinnacle of body ambition for the modern average man

Its sad theres only 20,800 views, it was a great DOC... Will there be more chapters?

How could you do a documentary about Sandow without mentioning the Sandow Trophy?! The greatest impact Sandow's legacy has had over the last 60 years was that he was an inspiration for Joe Weider - without whom the modern fitness industry wouldn't anything near what it is today. You even mention Arnold in the doc without mentioning that the foundation of everything that Arnold was able to accomplish rests upon the first six times he was able to win that trophy. What are you going to do for a followup, a documentary about Louis Cyr without mentioning the Cyr Stone?!

8:45 little mistake : she said he went to Anvers, which is Antwerp and not Versailles

amazing abdominal muscles, remember there were no steroids

Is there any other site where I can watch this documentary?While at KZfaq video stops after 11 minute mark and all I see is black screen (tried watching on few devices with same effect)

please do one on the mighty atom!

THE FOTO AT 4:57 IS FLORENZ ZIEGFELD.............

Fisrt fitness influencer

They named the Mr Olympia winners trophy (the sandow) after him so yeah he did have a bodybuilders physique he was lean and propionate. So he did have a bodybuilders type body

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The english subtitles for the french part are a little bit weird, Anvers does not translate in Versailles, it's two different cities and not even in the same country.

This plays on my phone but won't play on my Roku. What's up with that? I can hear the documentary, and can see images on fast forward, but only a black screen when playing

Arthur Saxon next please!

Anyone know the beginning of the song???!?! =?!=

does anyone have a contact for Chris Davies (Chris Zi)? It's Alice from the Castle...