Physical Culture

The One Man John L. Sullivan Feared New York City detective William Muldoon reigned as undefeated World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion for 9 years before embarking on a career as America's first celebrity trainer. Initially training prizefighters like John L. Sullivan, Muldoon trained athletes, businessmen and politicians at the first health resort in America. Read about the Solid Man vanquishing his foes in the ring and meeting challenges outside of it. Read the exploits of the first recognized American World Champion

How we ultimately gained the American Customary System, the last traditional system in the world, and how Gunter's chain indelibly imprinted its dimensions on the land, on cities, and on our culture from coast to coast is both an exciting human and intellectual drama and one of the great untold stories in American history. Sagely argued and beautifully written, Measuring America offers readers nothing less than the opportunity to see America's history, and our democracy, in a brilliant new light.

Physical culture can be regarded as a philosophy, regimen or lifestyle aiming to achieve maximum physical development by exercise, diet and athletic competition. The ancient Greeks were the first to cultivate their bodies to achieve the ideal physique and use physical culture as a form of preventative medicine. This fascinating book highlights how physical culture through exercise and athletics was a fundamental aspect of ancient Greece. This book revisits some of the commonly known aspects of ancient Greece, the Olympic Games and exercise techniques comparing with modern training ...

From the most visible woman writing about weightlifting today, a "profoundly engrossing" memoir and manifesto about how lifting helped dissolve her allegiance to diet culture; taught her to be at home in her body; and led her to grow every kind of strength (Elizabeth Greenwood). In A Physical...

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Bloomsbury presents The Cycling Addiction: Suffering, Speed and the Search for Meaning on Two Wheels, written and read by Phil Cavell 'A tour de force' ANDY McGRATH ‘Offers not just insight into what drives us to ride, but also a vocabulary for understanding when that drive becomes too much’...

For most of the 20th 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 30 years. Interviewing nearly one hundred major figures in the physical culture movement (including 25 Mr. Americas) and incorporating copious printed and manuscript sources, John D. Fair has created the definitive study of this iconic phenomenon.

Bloomsbury presents A Little More Love by Matthew Hild, read by Taryn Ryan. An in-depth biography that closely examines the superstar’s multi-faceted career, personal life, advocacy, and legacy. Olivia Newton-John was one of the biggest and most iconic global pop stars in history with...

Before the first city rose, before writing fixed a single name in history, the foundations of civilisation were already being laid, in footsteps, tools, firelight, memory and care. Ancient Civilisations that Shaped our World begins with Australopithecus afarensis and follows the long, branching human story towards Homo sapiens and settled society. Rather than presenting evolution as a simple march of progress, I explore the bodily compromises, environmental pressures and shared behaviours that gradually changed how our ancestors moved, thought, survived and lived together. Drawing on the ...

A master football coach shares the secret to creating and nurturing a legendary quarterback. What is an elite NFL quarterback and what separates that player from the others? One answer is the coach they share. In the recent history of the biggest game on earth, one man is the common thread that...

Bloomsbury presents A Beginner's Guide to the Roots of Yoga: How to create a more authentic practice by Nikita Desai read by Nikita Desai, Prasad Rangnekar and Sid Sagar ‘This will play a crucial role in preserving the true spirit of yoga for future generations.’ – Vex King Learn how to...

The shocking secret history of twentieth-century orphanages—which for decades hid violence, abuse, and deaths within their walls. "Tenacious and jaw-dropping." —Jessica Garrison, author of The Devil's Harvest For much of the twentieth century, a series of terrible events—abuse, both...

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The history of bodybuilding is the history of human obsession. IRON GODS is the first book to tell it properly. The question at the heart of this book isn't about training programmes or competition results. It's the question the training manuals and celebrity autobiographies never get to: What did the greatest bodybuilders in history actually believe? What philosophy drove them into the gym before the rest of the world was awake — and what did that philosophy cost them? IRON GODS: The Legends Who Built Bodybuilding covers 130 years of the iron game across 14 in-depth character portraits, ...

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