BRITAIN’S Strongest Man Adam Bishop has honoured legendary bodybuilder Eugen Sandow with a fitness workout being shot in Hayes.
Filmed at Barratt London’s Hayes Village development, once the former Nestlé factory owned by Sandow, the workout aims to motivate people during the lockdown.
The videos, which were shot while observing social distancing, involve Adam replicating some of Sandow’s old-time strongman routines.
He performs the historic circus dumb-bell press in front of the art deco entrance to the former Sandow’s Cocoa Works.
Legend has it that, after retiring from Hollywood where he starred in several Charlie Chaplin films, Sandow invested his earnings in the factory and opened it in 1913.
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Sandow was bodybuilding’s first superstar and claimed chocolate as the source of his strength!
Nowadays, the development, which is being restored by Barratt as Hayes Village, with 1,386 new homes, also has fitness at its heart.
Hayes Village will boast a gym, running track, section of canal for paddle-boarding and other watersports, green open spaces and parkland, when complete.
The instructional workouts are due to go live each Thursday at noon for four weeks starting this Thursday (7).
The four sessions will be progressive, with minimal kit to suit everyone watching at home. Details on:
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