German Bodybuilders - Eugen Sandow, Anja Langer, Gunter Schlierkamp, Ralf Moeller, Patrick Schulz, Christa Bauch, Ronny Rockel, Markus Rhl (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Eugen Sandow, Anja Langer, Gunter Schlierkamp, Ralf Moeller, Patrick Schulz, Christa Bauch, Ronny Rockel, Markus Rhl, Jusup Wilkosz, Anja Schreiner, Patrick Baboumian, Roland Cziurlock, Kerstin Wller. Excerpt: Anja Langer Anja Langer (born June 3, 1965) is a former professional female bodybuilder of the late 1980s. Her career peaked in 1988 when she placed second at the 1988 Ms. Olympia . Biography Anja was born in 1965 in Stuttgart in Southern Germany, where she grew up in the nearby town of Bblingen . Langer grew up in a house near a forest and at a young age she did a lot of outdoor activities. Because of this she developed a passion for nature and the outdoors. As an active child, her first passion was gymnastics. She competed at the age of eight in several gymnastic competitions and was successful. She also took part in horseback-riding competitions since her family own two horses and became part of a horseback-riding club. During this time Anja became more involved with different types of sports that captured her curiosity. She tried diving at the age of fourteen and jazz dance soon after. It was during this time, at the age of fifteen that she was introduced to bodybuilding by her first boyfriend, who she is good friends with to this day. She began weight training in 1980, at a local gym near her home in Germany. At the time she was the only girl weight training at the gym. This did not bother her since all the men at the gym were impressed by how strong she was. Little by little she increased her training, she put more attention to her diet and decided to compete in her first bodybuilding competition. In 1981 she competed in the Baden-Wrttemberg Championships and placed second to last. Langer was not discouraged and decided to train harder and competed again in the ...