Axel Gottlob

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Axel Gottlob (born March 1960 in Stuttgart ) is a German entrepreneur , trainer and former bodybuilder .

Life

As a child, Gottlob came into close contact with bodybuilding, as his father Peter Gottlob was one of the first to set up a studio in Germany. At the age of 17, Gottlob won the Stuttgart championships, and at the age of 22 he became German bodybuilding champion in 1982 at the championships of the Association of German Dumbbell Athletes (VDH) in Essen .

In the same year, his father founded the company Galaxy Sport , which designed and sold training equipment for bodybuilding and later also for fitness and rehabilitation. Over the years the company has developed more than 100 new training devices. When designing devices, Gottlob benefited from the knowledge he had gained during his studies: from 1980 he studied physics and mechanical engineering at the University of Stuttgart and graduated in 1990 as a graduate engineer (mechanical engineering) and in the meantime worked at Fraunhofer IAO in the ergonomics department. The products have been exported to other European countries, Asia and the USA. Galaxy Sport became the market leader in Germany in 1989. Gottlob worked in the company, for example as a device developer, sales manager and most recently as managing director . In 1992 the Gottlobs sold the company.

In the same year Gottlob completed an EU management program in Tokyo and dealt with sales psychology, negotiation techniques, NLP and motivation techniques . In 1993 he founded the Aktiv Seminare Gottlob training institute on the subjects of strength training , biomechanics and customer-oriented corporate management. At the same time he developed the training technology known as Multi Motion , in which several axes of rotation remain movable during movement. Gottlob registered patents for four training machines based on it. From 1994 to 1996 he studied law at the University of Heidelberg. A year later he expanded his business activities with the management consultancy Gottlob Consulting for fitness studios and service companies, from which his current company Dr. Gottlob Institute emerged . There he trains trainers and therapists to become master trainers, gives lectures and advises companies, associations and medical institutions. In addition, Gottlob teaches at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , at the University of Stuttgart and at the Federal Sports Academy in Austria.

In 2002, Gottlob received his doctorate in sports science on abdominal muscle training with magna cum laude as a Dr. phil. at the University of Heidelberg. The basis for this was his textbook Differentiated strength training with a focus on the spine , which was published the year before and which has now appeared in its fourth edition and is listed on the science platform sciencedirect.com. In the work, Gottlob develops principles for strength training in order to achieve individual goals of athletes and patients quickly and effectively and carries out this differentiated strength training to increase resilience and improve performance of the spine. Critics praised it as "probably the best and currently most successful textbook on the subject of strength training."

Works

  • Development of differentiated strength training guidelines according to biomechanical, neuromuscular and training methodological aspects and their specific implementation for abdominal muscle training , dissertation, University of Heidelberg, 2002
  • Differentiated strength training with a focus on the spine , Elsevier, Munich, 4th completely revised edition 2013. ISBN 978-3-437-47053-0

literature

  • Erika Dilger: The fitness movement in Germany , Hofmann, Schorndorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-7780-4640-1 , pp. 334–336
  • o. V .: 50 years of praise in the fitness industry , in: Fitness Tribune, 121/2009, pp. 50–61, here: (PDF; 1.1 MB)
  • o. V .: Fitness Tribune Award for Dr. Axel Gottlob , in: Fitness Tribune 89/2004, p. 52f here:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sic: "Winner with heavy dumbbells", in: Stuttgarter Zeitung, April 7, 1982
  2. ↑ Fitness Tribune Award for Dr. Axel Gottlob , in Fitness Tribune 89/2004, p. 52f
  3. ↑ Axel Gottlob: Differentiated strength training (4th edition), with a focus on the spine . 2013, doi : 10.1016 / B978-3-437-47053-0.05001-1 .
  4. ↑ http://www.berlinerliteraturkritik.de/detailseite/artikel/das-fitnessstudio-fuer-den-kopf.html
personal data
SURNAME Thank goodness, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, trainer and bodybuilder
DATE OF BIRTH March 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart