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Soviet Physical Culture in Uzbekistan: Implementat...
Posted by Sevket Akyildiz | Sep 19, 2019 | Physical Culture, Podcasts | 0
Extreme Definition Diets? Vince Gironda and the Tr...
Posted by Conor Heffernan | Jul 22, 2019 | Physical Culture | 1
Sig Klein and the Art of Gym Management
Posted by Conor Heffernan | Nov 29, 2018 | Physical Culture | 0
1979 and The Birth of the British Strongman
Posted by Conor Heffernan | Sep 3, 2018 | Physical Culture | 0
A Different Breed?
Animal History for the Sporting Historian
by Conor Heffernan | Jan 2, 2021 | Physical Culture, Playing Pasts Publications, Sport & Leisure History, Sport & Politics, Sporting Cultures: Global Perspectives edited Volume 2019, Theatre and the Arts, Wrestling/Self-defence | 0
Please cite this article as: Heffernam, C. A Different Breed? Animal History for the Sporting...
Read MoreA Neglected Austrian Lifter and Resistant: Franz Huhsar
by Gherardo Bonini | Aug 3, 2020 | Olympics, Physical Culture, Società Italiana di Storia dello Sport [SISS], Sport & Politics | 0
The period following World War I, ending with the horror of World War II, was one of the most...
Read MoreMuscle Building and Society Bending:
The Slow Birth of Irish Bodybuilding
by Conor Heffernan | May 23, 2020 | Physical Culture, Playing Pasts edited Volume 2020, Playing Pasts Publications | 0
Please cite this article as: Heffernan, C. Muscle Building and Society Bending: The Slow Birth of...
Read MoreSoviet Physical Culture in Uzbekistan:
Implementation and Social Impact
by Sevket Akyildiz | Sep 19, 2019 | Physical Culture, Podcasts | 0
This podcast, by Sevket Akyildiz was delivered as part of a collection of papers on aspects of...
Read MoreExtreme Definition Diets? Vince Gironda and the Transformation of American Bodybuilding
by Conor Heffernan | Jul 22, 2019 | Physical Culture | 1
Published in 1973 by the American weight trainer Vince Gironda, Definition: The New Revised...
Read MoreSig Klein and the Art of Gym Management
by Conor Heffernan | Nov 29, 2018 | Physical Culture | 0
Operating in the first half of the twentieth-century in his plush New York Gymnasium, Sig Klein...
Read More1979 and The Birth of the British Strongman
by Conor Heffernan | Sep 3, 2018 | Physical Culture | 0
In late 2016, Eddie Hall, a British strongman from Stoke-on-Trent forced his way into the...
Read MoreMemory and Feats of Strength in Rural Ireland
by Conor Heffernan | May 21, 2018 | Physical Culture | 1
From the 1930s to early 1970s, schoolchildren in Ireland were sent towards grandparents, village...
Read MoreTraining for Sport is Training for War? The GAA, Sokol Physical Culture and Ireland’s Military
by Conor Heffernan | Mar 5, 2018 | Physical Culture | 1
Outtake from a Sokol Display by the Irish Military in 1937. Courtesy of British Pathé The Gaelic...
Read MoreFrom Bloom to Battle: Tracing Ireland’s Early Physical Culture Movement
by Conor Heffernan | Feb 1, 2018 | Physical Culture, Videos | 0
Presented at the SpLeisH International Colloquium – 3-4 March 2017 By Conor Heffernan In 1898 one...
Read MoreLike a Rolling Stone: Strong Lifting in Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth Century Ireland
by Conor Heffernan | Nov 9, 2017 | Physical Culture | 0
An old man wanders through the outskirts of his town. Pains creep up and down his body as he...
Read MoreAll a Load of Pants? Posing Trunks in Male Bodybuilding Part One
by Conor Heffernan | Sep 25, 2017 | Physical Culture | 0
At first glance posing trunks seem an odd subject for historical enquiry. Bodybuilding as a sport...
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