Venus with Biceps - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Venus with Biceps write by David Chapman. This book was released on 2010-12-01. Venus with Biceps available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A visual history of female bodybuilders and other muscular women from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries.
Universal Hunks
Universal Hunks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Universal Hunks write by David L.. This book was released on 2013-11-15. Universal Hunks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A lively, wide-ranging pictorial history of muscular men around the world from the nineteenth century to the 1970s.
Arnold's Bodybuilding for Men
Arnold's Bodybuilding for Men - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arnold's Bodybuilding for Men write by Arnold Schwarzenegger. This book was released on 2012-07-17. Arnold's Bodybuilding for Men available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The complete program for building and maintaining a well-conditioned, excellently proportioned body -- for a lifetime of fitness and health. In Arnold's Bodybuilding for Men, legendary athlete Arnold Schwarzenegger shows you how to achieve the best physical condition of your life. For every man, at every age, Arnold outlines a step-by-step program of excercise, skillfully combining weight training and aerobic conditioning. The result -- total cardiovascular and muscular fitness. Arnold's program of exercise features stretching, warm-up and warm-down routines, and three series of exercises, each more ambitious than the last, all calculated to help you progress at your own speed. In addition, Arnold contributes important advice about equipment, nutrition and diet, and getting started on your program of exercise. Special sections of Arnold's Bodybuilding for Men cover training for teenagers, exercises designed to keep you in shape on the road or when you can't get to the gym, and the regimen Arnold followed to win his seven Mr. Olympia titles. Illustrated with hundreds of photographs of Arnold and other top bodybuilders, Arnold's Bodybuilding for Men will help every man look great and feel terrific.
American Hunks
American Hunks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Hunks write by David L. Chapman. This book was released on 2009-10-01. American Hunks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The "American hunk" is a cultural icon: the image of the chiseled, well-built male body has been promoted and exploited for commercial use for over 125 years, whether in movies, magazines, advertisements, or on consumer products, not only in America but throughout the world. American Hunks is a fascinating collection of images (many in full color) depicting the muscular American male as documented in popular culture from 1860 to 1970. The book, divided into specific historic eras, includes such personalities as bodybuilder Charles Atlas; pioneer weightlifter Eugene Sandow; movie stars like Steve "Hercules" Reeves and Johnny "Tarzan" Weismuller; and publications such as the 1920s-era magazine Physical Culture and the 1950s-era comic book Mr. Muscles. It also touches on the use of masculine, homoerotic imagery to sell political and military might (including American recruitment posters and Nazi propaganda from the 1936 Olympics), and how companies have used buff, near-naked men to sell products from laundry detergent to sacks of flour since the 1920s. The introduction by David L. Chapman offers insightful information on individual images, while the essay by Brett Josef Grubisic places the work in its proper historical context. David L. Chapman has written many books on male photography and bodybuilding, including Comin' at Ya!: The Homoerotic 3-D Photographs of Denny Denfield. Brett Josef Grubisic is author of the novel The Age of Cities and editor of Contra/Diction: New Queer Fiction.
Sandow the Magnificent
Sandow the Magnificent - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sandow the Magnificent write by David L. Chapman. This book was released on 1994. Sandow the Magnificent available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Before Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steve Reeves, or Charles Atlas, there was Eugen Sandow, a muscular vaudeville strongman who used his good looks, intelligence, and business savvy to forge a fitness empire. The German-born Sandow (1867-1925) established a worldwide string of gyms, published a popular magazine, sold exercise equipment, and pioneered the use of food supplements. He even marketed a patented health corset for his female followers. Among the colorful figures who played a part in Sandow's life are Bernarr Macfadden, Florenz Ziegfeld, Lillian Russell, and others in sports and the theater. Sandow the Magnificent is the story of this first showman to emphasize physique display rather than lifting prowess. Sandow's is also the story of the earliest days of the fitness movement, and Chapman explains the popularity of physical culture in terms of its wider social implications. Sandow was a proponent of exercise to alleviate physical ailments, anticipating the field of physical therapy. By making exercise fashionable, he encouraged the fitness craze that still endures. As the first superstar in his field, Sandow also pried open some surprising cracks in the Victorian wall of prudery. His nude photographs, a kind of soft-core pornography, were anxiously sought by both male and female admirers, and after many of his major public events he gave private "receptions" wearing little more than a G-string.
