Kurdish bodybuilder: Women should make sports culture and a daily need in their lives

Sport‌‌ 10:55 AM - 2021-03-23

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Bodybuilding is the use of progressive resistance exercise to control and develop one's musculature by muscle hypertrophy for aesthetic purposes and for Kurdish woman bodybuilder, Nigar, bodybuilding is a lifestyle.

 

Nigar Mahmud is a bodybuilder and works as a trainer in Darbandikhan town, 67 km south of Sulaymaniyah. She talked to PUKmedia about her story.

 

Nigar said: "I have begun working out and training in 2008. Aerobic training has always been a hobby of mine."

 

"I have usually read sports magazines and journals and tried to benefit from the sports subjects, which made me have more and more desire for sports," she said

 

She started her bodybuilding training in 2013 and she is continuing ever since. She has been working as a bodybuilding trainer for 5 years and says: "I am happy to be able to benefit my community and to send my message to the girls and women of Darbandikhan through sports to make sports a culture and a daily need in their lives."

 

Nigar believes that if women get good support, they can do great things.

 

Women's numbers in training hall have increased throughout the recent years. Nigar pointed out that over 300 women of all ages visit their training center daily.

 

Bodybuilding developed in the late 19th century, promoted in England by German Eugen Sandow, now considered as the "Father of Modern Bodybuilding". He allowed audiences to enjoy viewing his physique in "muscle display performances". Although audiences were thrilled to see a well-developed physique, the men simply displayed their bodies as part of strength demonstrations or wrestling matches. Sandow had a stage show built around these displays through his manager, Florenz Ziegfeld. The Oscar-winning 1936 musical film The Great Ziegfeld depicts the beginning of modern bodybuilding when Sandow began to display his body for carnivals.

 

 

 

Reported by Muhammed Abdulrahman

PUKmedia