In an age that doesn’t suppose an excessive amount of about historical past, you is perhaps forgiven for considering {that a} tradition of train solely emerged within the twentieth century. However the thought of purposefully exercising to alter one’s physique — what of us used to name “bodily tradition” — possible goes again to the very beginnings of time.
Right here to unpack the origins, evolution, and way forward for health is Dr. Conor Heffernan, a Lecturer within the Sociology of Sport at Ulster College and the creator of The History of Physical Culture. Right this moment on the present, Conor takes us on a captivating and wide-ranging tour of bodily tradition, from the traditional Egyptians, who made their pharaohs run round a pyramid to check their health to rule, to the traditional Greeks who used their gymnasiums for each bodily coaching and mental philosophizing, to fashionable strongmen who turned proto health influencers, and plenty of intervals and societies in between. We talk about how coaching practices modified over time, the place they could be going subsequent, and the evergreen ideas from previous eras that we may nonetheless be taught from in the present day.
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