A Brief History Of The World’s First Fitness Machines

And the man who built them

The Bicep Curl was created by Dr Gustav Alexander and it is similar to what we can see in the gym today; Source: Monovisions

Current fitness machines derive their origin from the prototypes created by Dr Gustav Zander over 150 years ago. During his stay at the medical school in Sweden in the 1860s, Dr Zander began to construct machinery which featured pulley systems designed to strengthen the human body.