Category: Physical Culture

Published in 1973 by the American weight trainer Vince Gironda, Definition: The New Revised...

Operating in the first half of the twentieth-century in his plush New York Gymnasium, Sig Klein...

In late 2016, Eddie Hall, a British strongman from Stoke-on-Trent forced his way into the...

From the 1930s to early 1970s, schoolchildren in Ireland were sent towards grandparents, village...

Outtake from a Sokol Display by the Irish Military in 1937. Courtesy of British Pathé The Gaelic...

An old man wanders through the outskirts of his town. Pains creep up and down his body as he...

At first glance posing trunks seem an odd subject for historical enquiry. Bodybuilding as a sport...

Having discussed the precursors to bodybuilding trunks in part one of this series, this post will...

On May 6th 1898, Eugen Sandow, the man whom many credit as the father of the Physical Culture...