A Brief History of Resistance Training

Resistance training can be traced back to ancient Egypt, where drawings of lifting sand and stone-filled bags, swinging, and tossing activities were on tombs. However, the Greek civilization invented weightlifting events, inspiring the modern Olympics. They did not have the advanced equipment or studies on resistance training and physiology to support their exercises until the 1700s when the first dumbbell was invented by inserting a rod in the middle of two church bells.

Original Published at Medium on 09/1/2023