The Illustrated History of Physical Culture: The muscular ideal
Author: Alan Stuart Radley
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 156
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Macfadden's Encyclopedia of Physical Culture
Author: Bernarr Macfadden
Publisher:
Published: 1920
Total Pages: 660
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKQualitative Research on Sport and Physical Culture
Author: Kevin Young
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2012-10-12
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1780522975
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAddresses issues in methodology, contemporary issues in research methods and innovative trends in qualitative research that are addressed through case study examples from areas of research in sport studies. This title includes: historical methods; ethnography; auto-ethnography; embodied methods; interviewing; and, narratives.
Marrow of the Nation
Author: Andrew D. Morris
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2004-09-13
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780520240841
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Physical Culture and Sport in Soviet Society
Author: Susan Grant
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 041580695X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom its very inception the Soviet state valued the merits and benefits of physical culture, which included not only sport but also health, hygiene, education, labour and defence. Physical culture propaganda was directed at the Soviet population, and even more particularly at young people, women and peasants, with the aim of transforming them into ideal citizens. By using physical culture and sport to assess social, cultural and political developments within the Soviet Union, this book provides a new addition to the historiography of the 1920s and 1930s as well as to general sports history studies.
Black Fives
Author: Claude Johnson
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9780985090807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFormed in 1904, the Alpha Physical Culture Club of Harlem was America’s first African American athletic club. Conrad Norman, its Jamaican-born founder, hoped to address rampant lung disease among blacks living in New York City’s overcrowded tenements by providing proper exercise facilities they could use without bias. The club’s basketball team, the Alpha Big Five, became nationally famous during the 1910s while sticking faithfully to the strictest amateur ideals. But the times were changing. The Alphas' version of pure sport for its own sake was threatened by other black fives with visions of play-for-pay, led by team owners like fellow Caribbean immigrant Robert Douglas. Which ideal would prevail? The future of basketball was at stake. The author is Claude Johnson, founder and C.E.O. of Black Fives, Inc. and BlackFives.com. The book includes a foreword by world renowned D.J., sneaker aficionado, publisher, voiceover artist, television personality, record label owner, writer, radio host, M.C, author, and film director Bobbito García. Also includes a Reader Discussion Guide at the end of the book.
Physical Culture
Author: Bernarr Macfadden
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 698
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhysical Culture, Power, and the Body
Author: Patricia Vertinsky
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-11-28
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1134227051
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the past decade, there has been an outpouring of books on 'the body' in society, but none has focused as specifically on physical culture - that is, cultural practices such as sport and dance within which the moving physical body is central. Questions are raised about the character of the body, specifically the relation between the ‘natural’ body, the ‘constructed’ body and the ‘alien’ or ‘virtual’ body. The themes of the book are wide in scope, including: physical culture and the fascist body sport and the racialised body sport medicine, health and the culture of risk the female Muslim sporting body, power, and politics experiencing the disabled sporting body embodied exhibitions of striptease and sport the social logic of sparring sport, girls and the neoliberal body. Physical Culture, Power, and the Body aims to break down disciplinary boundaries in its theoretical approaches and its readership. The author’s muli-disciplinary backgrounds, demonstrate the widespread topicality of physical culture and the body.
Culture, Sport, and Physical Activity
Author: Karin A. E. Volkwein-Caplan
Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Verlag
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1841261475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDealing with different aspects of movement, sports and physical activity, this text examines the effects such activities has on our culture and the benefits of participation.
Strength Coaching in America
Author: Jason P. Shurley
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2019-12-13
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1477319794
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt’s hard to imagine, but as late as the 1950s, athletes could get kicked off a team if they were caught lifting weights. Coaches had long believed that strength training would slow down a player. Muscle was perceived as a bulky burden; training emphasized speed and strategy, not “brute” strength. Fast forward to today: the highest-paid strength and conditioning coaches can now earn $700,000 a year. Strength Coaching in America delivers the fascinating history behind this revolutionary shift. College football represents a key turning point in this story, and the authors provide vivid details of strength training’s impact on the gridiron, most significantly when University of Nebraska football coach Bob Devaney hired Boyd Epley as a strength coach in 1969. National championships for the Huskers soon followed, leading Epley to launch the game-changing National Strength Coaches Association. Dozens of other influences are explored with equal verve, from the iconic Milo Barbell Company to the wildly popular fitness magazines that challenged physicians’ warnings against strenuous exercise. Charting the rise of a new athletic profession, Strength Coaching in America captures an important transformation in the culture of American sport.
