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Author : Alan Stuart Radley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Illustrated History of Physical Culture: The muscular ideal written by Alan Stuart Radley and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Conor Heffernan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135040165X
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Indian Club Swinging and the Birth of Global Fitness written by Conor Heffernan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging in colonial India, the fitness fad that was Indian Club Swinging became a global exercise practice in the early 19th century. Used by physicians, soldiers, gymnasts, children and athletes alike, clubs were used to solve numerous social concerns and ills, and often prescribed to treat everything from depression to spinal abnormalities. This book provides a definitive account of the rise and spread of club swinging as it spread from India to Europe and America, asking why and how it became so popular. Discussing the global, commercial fitness culture of the 19th century, Indian Club Swinging and the Birth of Global Fitness explores how the popularity of this exercise reflected much deeper global and domestic concerns about body image, military preparation and education. Addressing broader questions about nationalism, gender, race and popular commerce across the British Empire, it highlights the origins of our modern transnational fitness culture and shows how it intersected with global and colonial understandings of health, medicine and education.
Author : Randy Roach
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1434376788
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Muscle, Smoke & Mirrors written by Randy Roach and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The research for this extensive, two volume project... represents a comprehensive effort to establish a complete context from which the sport of bodybuilding arose. "Muscle, Smoke & Mirrors" is the rise and fall of what was truly once an extraordinary discipline associated with a term known as "Physical Culture". Experience what bodybuilding was originally and learn just exactly what "Physical Culture" really is. See what growing philanthropic power flexed its financial and political muscles to foster its corporate agenda, compromising human health internationally. Read how the merger of technology and politics culminated in the industrialization, commercialization, federalization, internationalization and finally the STERILIZATION of a nation's food supply, rendering it suspect not only to the general public; but also to the most elite of athletes. Whether you are a novice, an elite bodybuilder or simply sports-nutrition minded, learn how the emerging forces of the Iron Game evolved. Ultimately, the factions of this industry would grow powerful and manipulative while fighting for control over the Game. It took the running of several parallel histories on bodybuilding, nutrition, supplements and the role of drugs to offer a complete, first-time unraveling of the web of confusion and politics that still permeates the sport into the 21st century! Volume I of "Muscle, Smoke & Mirrors" is truly the untold stories surrounding "Bodybuilding's Amazing Nutritional Origins."
Author : Graeme Kent
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849544891
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (495 download)
Download or read book The Strongest Men on Earth written by Graeme Kent and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-03 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They claimed to be the mightiest men in the world. For twenty-five years, before the outbreak of the First World War, professional strongmen were the pop idols of their day. Performing apparently incredible feats of strength, they strutted across stages and topped the bills everywhere, earning thousands of pounds a week. Fans included royalty, heads of state, politicians and leading figures in the literary and artistic worlds, as well as hundreds of thousands of ordinary men and women, all revelling in the antics of these larger-than-life characters. Seeking to outdo each other in death-defying deeds, the strongmen's performances were thrilling and dangerous: lifting elephants, horses, pianos and their players; breaking chains with their biceps; supporting thirty men on a plank suspended on their shoulders. Some strongmen succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Eugen Sandow, a great self-publicist, was appointed physical culture adviser to King George V. His great rival, the bombastic Charles Sampson, toured the world with his blatant cheating and rigged strongman displays until one day the elephant he claimed to be lifting remained suspended in mid-air. Georg Hackenschmidt, the Russian Lion, was so popular that Theodore Roosevelt himself declared wistfully that he would rather be 'Hack' than President of the USA. In The Strongest Men on Earth, Graeme Kent vividly brings to life the world of strongmen (and women), and shares the stories that defined a sporting and show-business era.
Author : John D. Fair
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292767501
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Mr. America written by John D. Fair and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Map[s] the shifting definitions of gender and masculinity . . . provides the rare insight into the world of bodybuilding that only an insider could offer.” —Sport in American History For most of the twentieth century, the “Mr. America” image epitomized muscular manhood. From humble beginnings in 1939 at a small gym in Schenectady, New York, the Mr. America Contest became the world’s premier bodybuilding event over the next thirty years. Rooted in ancient Greek virtues of health, fitness, beauty, and athleticism, it showcased some of the finest specimens of American masculinity. Interviewing nearly one hundred major figures in the physical culture movement (including twenty-five Mr. Americas) and incorporating copious printed and manuscript sources, John D. Fair has created the definitive study of this iconic phenomenon. Revealing the ways in which the contest provided a model of functional and fit manhood, Mr. America captures the event’s path to idealism and its slow descent into obscurity. As the 1960s marked a turbulent transition in American society—from the civil rights movement to the rise of feminism and increasing acceptance of homosexuality—Mr. America changed as well. Exploring the influence of other bodily displays, such as the Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympia contests and the Miss America Pageant, Fair focuses on commercialism, size obsession, and drugs that corrupted the competition’s original intent. Accessible and engaging, Mr. America is a compelling portrayal of the glory days of American muscle. “An entertaining narrative of the bodybuilding subculture in America.” —Kirkus Reviews “Deftly written and superbly researched.” —Journal of Sport History
Author : Bernarr Macfadden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Macfadden's Encyclopedia of physical culture v. 2, 1911 written by Bernarr Macfadden and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Conor Heffernan
Publisher : Common Ground Research Networks
ISBN 13 : 195779223X
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (577 download)
Download or read book The History of Physical Culture written by Conor Heffernan and published by Common Ground Research Networks. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physical culture can be crudely defined as those exercise practices designed to physically change the body. In modern parlance we may associate physical culture with weightlifting, physical education, and/or calisthenics of various kinds. While the modern age has experienced an explosion of interest in gym-based activities, the practice of training one’s body has a much longer, and fascinating, history. This book provides an engaged and accessible historical overview from the Ancient World to the Modern Day. In it, readers are introduced to the training practices of Ancient Greece, India, and China among other areas. From there, the book explores the evolution of exercise systems and messages in the Western World with reference to three distinct epochs: the Middles Ages and Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and its aftermath and the nineteenth to the present day. Throughout the book, attention is drawn not only to how societies exercised, but why they did so. The purpose of this book is to provide those new to the field of physical culture an historical overview of some of the major trends and developments in exercise practices. More than that, the book challenges readers to reflect on the numerous meanings attached to the body and its training. As is discussed, physical culture was linked to military, religious, educational, aesthetic, and gendered messages. The training of the body, across millennia, was always about much more than muscularity or strength. Here both the exercise systems, and their meanings are studied.
Author : William Bankier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Ideal Physical Culture and the Truth about the Strong Man written by William Bankier and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J[ohn] R[ichard] [From Old Catalog Judd
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781348180159
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Manual for Physical Culture and Muscular Development written by J[ohn] R[ichard] [From Old Catalog Judd and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Joan Tumblety
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199695571
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Remaking the Male Body written by Joan Tumblety and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first monograph to explore the imagined link between male athletic prowess and national strength in interwar France. It ultimately sheds light on the roots of Vichy's project for masculine regeneration after the military defeat of 1940.
Author : Alan Radley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780953994540
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (945 download)
Download or read book Classic Muscle Art written by Alan Radley and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique and fascinating journey into Muscle Art by two leading Physical Culture historians, Alan Radley and David Gentle. This exciting study comprehensively explores the art of the muscular body, as it has developed and evolved throughout time, and in all its variety and wonder. We investigate the Muscular Ideal as exemplified in sports like weightlifting and bodybuilding, plus in sculpture, painting and photography, movies and cartoons etc. An exhaustive history of Muscle Art is brought to life in a vibrant cultural context. Contains 1000 illustrations Visit RADLEY BOOKS at www.radleybooks.com to see more classic book titles in this series.
Author : John Richard Judd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Manual for Physical Culture and Muscular Development written by John Richard Judd and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roy J. Shephard
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319116711
Total Pages : 1095 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)
Download or read book An Illustrated History of Health and Fitness, from Pre-History to our Post-Modern World written by Roy J. Shephard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 1095 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the health/fitness interaction in an historical context. Beginning in primitive hunter-gatherer communities, where survival required adequate physical activity, it goes on to consider changes in health and physical activity at subsequent stages in the evolution of “civilization.” It focuses on the health impacts of a growing understanding of medicine and physiology, and the emergence of a middle-class with the time and money to choose between active and passive leisure pursuits. The book reflects on urbanization and industrialization in relation to the need for public health measures, and the ever-diminishing physical demands of the work-place. It then evaluates the attitudes of prelates, politicians, philosophers and teachers at each stage of the process. Finally, the book explores professional and governmental initiatives to increase public involvement in active leisure through various school, worksite, recreational and sports programmes.
Author : Weider Publications, LLC
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780945797333
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (973 download)
Download or read book Training Notebook written by Weider Publications, LLC and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last, the complete, fully illustrated guide to weight-training exercises, based on the popular Muscle & Fitness column Training Notebook. Now, all in one place, 74 of the best exercises ever with step-by-step directions for building a strong, muscular physique. This easy-to-follow format lets you choose from a variety of exercises for each bodypart - from back and biceps to chest and calves. You can now change up your training so you keep making gains while you hit your muscles from new angles every workout.The Muscle & Fitness Training Notebook provides detailed instruction on doing each movement correctly for maximum effectiveness and safety. Special tips let you customize each exercise for your individual goals - whether you want wider shoulders or stronger legs. The training log lets you keep track of your sets, reps and poundage, along with your progress. Color-coded anatomy drawings show you the muscles in action, with sports applications for each exercise listed. Expand your exercise inventory with this essential guide. The spiral-bound format provides easy access for convenient use while you train.
Author : Broderick D.V. Chow
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810147386
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Muscle Works written by Broderick D.V. Chow and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men’s fitness as a performance—from nineteenth-century theatrical exhibitions to health and wellness practices today This book recounts the story of fitness culture from its beginnings as spectacles of strongmen, weightlifters, acrobats, and wrestlers to its legitimization in the twentieth-century in the form of competitive sports and health and wellness practices. Broderick D. V. Chow shows how these modes of display contribute to the construction and deconstruction of definitions of masculinity. Attending to its theatrical origins, Chow argues for a more nuanced understanding of fitness culture, one informed by the legacies of self-described Strongest Man in the World Eugen Sandow and the history of fakery in strongman performance; the philosophy of weightlifter George Hackenschmidt and the performances of martial artist Bruce Lee; and the intersections of fatigue, resistance training, and whiteness. Muscle Works: Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity moves beyond the gym and across the archive, working out techniques, poses, and performances to consider how, as gendered subjects, we inhabit and make worlds through our bodies.
Author : John Richard Judd
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333617653
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Manual for Physical Culture and Muscular Development (Classic Reprint) written by John Richard Judd and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Manual for Physical Culture and Muscular Development Stand facing machine [see cut] pulling both hands, first into right side then into left side as shown in cut. May be done twenty times each way. When pulling into left side you develop muscle of right arm from palm of hand following therefrom down forearm to inner part of bicep to pectoral muscle and up left forearm and back part of upper arm to the trapezium. When pulling to right side the muscles taken are reversed on each arm. Heretofore I have quoted this as a sparring motion although it does not take in the exact muscles used in sparring, for you must turn sideways to strike an effective blow in sparring, and furthermore the muscles must be loose to strike properly, which condition can not be attained in this motion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Conor Heffernan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030637271
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The History of Physical Culture in Ireland written by Conor Heffernan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to deal with physical culture in an Irish context, covering educational, martial and recreational histories. Deemed by many to be a precursor to the modern interest in health and gym cultures, physical culture was a late nineteenth and early twentieth century interest in personal health which spanned national and transnational histories. It encompassed gymnasiums, homes, classrooms, depots and military barracks. Prior to this work, physical culture’s emergence in Ireland has not received thorough academic attention. Addressing issues of gender, childhood, nationalism, and commerce, this book is unique within an Irish context in studying an Irish manifestation of a global phenomenon. Tracing four decades of Irish history, the work also examines the influence of foreign fitness entrepreneurs in Ireland and contrasts them with their Irish counterparts.
