The world's strongest and most developed bodybuilding country is the United States, bodybuilding originated in Europe, developed in Europe and the United States, today's international bodybuilding competitions Joved brothers IFBB, Mr. Olympia and Schwarzenegger founded the Arnold Tradition Tournament are all founded in the United States.
And Asian bodybuilding started late, coupled with the development of world bodybuilding in Europe and the United States, the aesthetic standards and judging standards of bodybuilding competitions are in accordance with European and American standards! Therefore, the bodybuilding genes of Asians are inherently worse than those of Europe and the United States! But even so, there are still some of Asia's top bodybuilders like Hidehiro Yamagishi on the Olympiad stage of European rules!
Hidehiro Yamagishi, height: 5'5" (163 cm), weight: 215 - 225lbs (93.0 - 102.1 kg). He is a bodybuilding god from Japan, and his dedication and rigor to bodybuilding fully demonstrate the professionalism of the Japanese people! Wikipedia says he is the only Asian bodybuilder to break into the world's top 10 bodybuilders! Actually, this is not right, asian Samir Bannout (from Lebanon) also won the title of Mr. Olympia once! This is the only time in the history of Asian bodybuilding that there is no difference in the Olympiad! Next articleXiaobian will introduce you to the Asian Olympiad champion!
Hidehiro Yamagishi is Japan's first IFBB Pro and the first Japanese to perform on the Orsay stage! One of Asia's greatest bodybuilders, he was born on June 30, 1973 in Hokkaido, Japan, on the northern island of Japan. He loved baseball, gymnastics and soccer since he was a kid, and he started practicing rugby as a teenager, when he weighed only 130 pounds, so he joined the gym and gained 50 pounds after graduating from high school! This laid the foundation for him to earn the IFBB Professional Card!
After graduating from high school, Hidehiro Yamagishi attended Waseda University, where he chose to study sports nutrition in order to advance his fitness knowledge. His family encouraged him to concentrate on his studies, but the young man had only one goal in mind: to become a professional bodybuilder! In his second year of college, at just 19 years old, the young man has already won his first bodybuilding title: first place at the National Collegiate Championships!
At the age of 25, Hidehiro Yamagishi competed in his first official competition: JBBF in 1998, finishing second and showing his strength in the official competition for the first time! This competition became the drive for his professional bodybuilding! Over the next 3 years Hidehiro Yamagishi competed in 8 amateur competitions and finally won the IFBB Asian Amateur Championship trophy in 2001! Get a Career Card!
Mr. Olympia: He qualified for the First Olympic Games in 2007 and finished 13th in the Orsay Undifferentiated! Let people see a new hope for Asian bodybuilding! In 2008, he won the ninth place in the Olympiad in 2009! However, Hidehiro Yamagishi quickly realized that his weight gap in the no-difference race was too large, which may not be fair to him, so he began to compete in the Olympiad 212 pounds in 2014, and the best result was the third place in the 2015 Olympiad 212 pounds category!
I have to say that Hidehiro Yamagishi is the pride of Asian bodybuilding! Although he did not win the Olympiad, his achievements were enough to defend his position in Asian bodybuilding! Hidehiro Yamagishi is now preparing for the 2018 Australian Arnold Tradition! At that time, Xiaobian will also follow up the report, hoping that Hidehiro Yamagishi will create glory again!