Shweta Rathore became the first Indian female bodybuilder to win a silver medal in the 49th Asian championship, recently held in Uzbekistan. Shweta, an engineer by qualification, won silver in the Women’s Fitness Physique category and qualified for the World Championship, to be held in Thailand in November.  Shweta is on Judge Panel of Body power Expo 2015 and runs an academy — Fitness Forever.

Bodybuilding

• Bodybuilding is the use of progressive resistance exercise to control and develop one’s musculature.
• Well-known bodybuilders include Charles Atlas, Steve Reeves, Reg Park, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno.
• Bodybuilding developed in the late 19th century, promoted in England by the ‘Father of Modern Bodybuilding’, German-born Eugen Sandow.
• In 1990, wrestling promoter Vince McMahon announced he was forming a new bodybuilding organization, the World Bodybuilding Federation (WBF).
• Bodybuilders often split their food intake for the day into 5 to 7 meals of roughly equal nutritional content and attempt to eat at regular intervals.