Article on the history of physical fitness from primitive times through the 20th century. Includes discussion of exercise and fitness in ancient China, India, the ancient Near East, Greece and Rome, Europe, and the U.S. The U.S. sections cover President Theodore Roosevelt's physical fitness ...
and K.L. Kirkegaard. `The history and organization of fitness exercise in Norway and Denmark'. Sport in Society, Vol. 13, No. 14, May, (2010): 609-624.Steen-Johnsen, K. & Lund Kirkegaard, K. (2010). The history and organization of fitness exercise in Norway and Denmark. Sport in...
When not in the gym or in the library he likes to try his hand at writing, often with mixed results. He divides his time between his research and his website, which is dedicated to the history of fitness and exercise — read all about it at Physical Culture Study. ...
Fitness, as we know it today, seems to be a relatively modern invention – something that started vaguely in the 70s with jogging and Jazzercise. But physical exercise obviously goes back much further than that, to a time where people wouldn’t have thought of it as working out, but rather...
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Both groups participated in a supervised training programme with the intensity set at the level producing the threshold lactate concentration for 90–120min twice a week, together with self-determined aerobic exercise three times a week. Vital age was estimated to determine the health-fitness status...
This year the Olympic Games will be held in London, a fitting time to look at physical activity and the attitudes to exercise throughout history. Our ancestors would have been physically active; in order to meet basic human need, physical fitness would have been essential in order to hunt, ...
Sports were unquestionably common inancient Egypt, where pharaohs used their huntingprowessand exhibitions of strength and skill in archery to demonstrate their fitness to rule. In such exhibitions, pharaohs such asAmenhotep II(ruled 1426–1400bce) never competed against anyone else, however, and the...
exercise every day. 4.Bill is a ___慷慨的) person, who has given millions of dollars to help those people in the disaster hit area. 5.I will try my best, but can’t ___ (确保) that I will succeed this time. 6.I can check e-mail and d___ (下载) music. 7.I think life...
4.Wang Ping: The history of people using fitness equipment to exercise the body is very long.王平:运用健身器材锻炼身体的历史很久了。 5."Human body philosphy" as the philosophical history of China;作为“身体哲学”的中国哲学的历史 6.Another Kind of Memory: In Search of Alternative History Thro...