Over the past fifty years, iron sports have become popular on all continents. Every intelligent person wants to look attractive. Tom Platz began to engage in bodybuilding, imitating his idols.
Starting conditions
According to informed experts, a little over a hundred years have passed since the appearance of bodybuilding as a sport. For a long time, the relief of the muscles boasted exclusively men. Then this hobby was picked up by women. Do women need to build muscle, there is no unequivocal opinion. Discussions on this topic will continue for a long time. When Tom Platz decided to engage in bodybuilding, the female part of the population belonged to the category of spectators. The boy really wanted to be like those athletes whose photos were posted on the pages of glossy magazines.
The future bodybuilder was born on June 26, 1955 in an ordinary American family. Parents at that time lived in a small town in Oklahoma. My father worked in a car workshop. Mother was engaged in housework. The child grew and developed like all peers, without demonstrating special natural abilities. Tom received secondary education at a local school. The first acquaintance with bodybuilding occurred at the age of six. The boy was sent to a pharmacy for medicines, where he first saw vivid photographs of muscular men who were holding beautiful girls in their arms.
Training and results
When the boy was ten years old, he persistently asked his father to buy him a gym. A suitable place for training was a garage. Tom and his father were engaged strictly according to the methodology that was applied to the simulator. After a short period of time, the first results appeared. However, further development required special conditions. Having received secondary education at school, Platz moved to California. A harmonious system of training “muscular handsome men” has already developed here, and Tom has organically “joined the process”.
Platz gained experience and trained in the same room with the famous actor Arnold Schwarzenegger. "Building" a beautiful body is not only regular training. You must adhere to a specific diet and daily routine. Creativity of this kind is not suitable for everyone. Tom enjoyed the class. Sports career for him was not bad. He regularly participated in contests and championships, which were held by gender with various mottos. In 1978, Platz became the world middleweight champion among amateurs.
