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Author: Harold Zinkin Publisher: ISBN: 9781883318017 Category : Bodybuilding Languages : en Pages : 0
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Muscle Beach, Santa Monica, California is known as the birthplace of the physical fitness boom of the 20th century. In the 1930s and 1940s, it was the trendsetting place where Steve Reeves, Jack LaLanne, the Tanny Brothers and Joe Gold built their bodies.
Author: Harold Zinkin Publisher: ISBN: 9781883318017 Category : Bodybuilding Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Muscle Beach, Santa Monica, California is known as the birthplace of the physical fitness boom of the 20th century. In the 1930s and 1940s, it was the trendsetting place where Steve Reeves, Jack LaLanne, the Tanny Brothers and Joe Gold built their bodies.
Author: Harold Zinkin Publisher: ISBN: 9781883318321 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 128
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Finally! The paperback!!! Muscle Beach, Santa Monica, California: the birthplace of the fitness movement. In the 1930s, Muscle Beach attracted the best bodies of the day: Jack LaLanne, John Grimek, Joe Gold of Gold's Gym fame, and the very first Mr. California, Harold Zinkin, the author of REMEMBERING MUSCLE BEACH. And more: Steve Reeves, Charles Atlas, Vic Tanny -- the real story and the real pictures.." . . a superb history of an important facet of American culture." -- The Bookwatch
Author: Marla Matzer Rose Publisher: Macmillan + ORM ISBN: 1466873493 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 159
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The Story Behind America's Iconic Patch of Sand--Muscle Beach, California Almost half a century before health clubs, fitness videos and weight training became American obsessions, a pioneering enclave in Santa Monica, California, started the physical culture boom. In the 1940s, Jack LaLanne, Vic Tanny, Joe Gold, Les and Pudgy Stockton and others like them drew thousands of visitors to the beach to watch their feats of strength and acrobatic displays. As more viewers became participants, body building and fitness became a part of the mainstream culture. Muscle Beach by Marla Matzer Rose is full of rich, new material about the original Muscle Beachers, many of whom are still alive and testaments to the benefits of a life devoted to fitness. With its fresh anecdotes and thirty-two rare and wonderful photographs, this history brings a legendary stretch of beach into focus.
Author: Randy Roach Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1434376788 Category : Anabolic steroids Languages : en Pages : 586
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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: Haley Shapley Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1982120878 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 238
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This stirring and vibrant account of women’s athleticism throughout history “will leave readers feeling inspired and powerful” (Ms. magazine). Part group biography, part cultural history, Strong Like Her delves into the fascinating stories of our muscular foremothers. From the first female Olympian (who entered the chariot race through a loophole) to the circus stars who could lift their husbands above their heads and make it look like “a little light housework with a feather duster,” these brave and brawny women paved the way for the generations to follow. Filled with Sophy Holland’s beautiful portraits of some of today’s most awe-inspiring athletes, including Peloton instructor Robin Arzón, bodybuilder Dana Linn Bailey, actress/dancer Patina Miller, and many others, Strong Like Her is “a love letter to muscles and the women who rock them so gloriously” (Shape).
Author: Wayne Wilson Publisher: University of Arkansas Press ISBN: 1610756290 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 375
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LA Sports brings together sixteen essays covering various aspects of the development and changing nature of sport in one of America’s most fascinating and famous cities. The writers cover a range of topics, including the history of car racing and ice skating, the development of sport venues, the power of the Mexican fan base in American soccer leagues, the intersecting life stories of Jackie and Mack Robinson, the importance of the Showtime Lakers, the origins of Muscle Beach and surfing, sport in Hollywood films, and more.
Author: Elsa Devienne Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0197539750 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 329
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An original approach to the iconic landscape of California--the beaches of Los Angeles--this book recovers untold stories of presidential jaunts, wild spring break celebrations, underground gay beaches, and engineering feats that enlarged the shores overnight. From the creation of a mini-Venice on the LA sands in 1905 to Baywatch's David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson captivating billions of television viewers worldwide in the 1990s, the book offers a comprehensive look at a landscape that is at once natural and artificial, but now under threat from climate change and rising sea levels.
Author: Broderick D.V. Chow Publisher: Northwestern University Press ISBN: 0810147386 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 235
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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: Sid Campbell Publisher: Blue Snake Books ISBN: 9781583941485 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 260
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"Remembering the Master is a glimpse into the lives of Bruce Lee and James Yimm Lee, related through the memories of those closest to them during the Oakland years, where they changed the course of martial arts history with the creation of Jeet Kune Do"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Harold Zinkin
Author: Harold Zinkin
Author: Harold Zinkin
Author: Marla Matzer Rose
Author: Randy Roach
Author: Haley Shapley
Author: Wayne Wilson
Author: Elsa Devienne
Author: Broderick D.V. Chow
Author: Sid Campbell
Author: Schutes Peter (author)