Who invented bodybuilding?

[Joe Roark]

http://www.bodybuildingreviews.net/Bodybuilding.html
See my short history of bodybuilding, on my website, Bodybuilding Reviews.  It was a late 19th century invention, through the discovery of resistance training.  The three people most responsible are Attila, Sandow & Macfadden. 

Mike, I enjoyed your overview, but it contains several factual errors(Grimek did not win the Mr. America in 1946, Joe Weider never won any bodybuilding contests in the 1950s, and others).

[hifrommike]

Joe, thanks for your corrections.