In an age that doesn’t suppose an excessive amount of about historical past, you may be forgiven for pondering {that a} tradition of train solely emerged within the twentieth century. However the concept of purposefully exercising to vary one’s physique — what people used to name “bodily tradition” — doubtless 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 writer of The Historical past of Bodily Tradition. Right now 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 grew to become proto health influencers, and plenty of durations and societies in between. We talk about how coaching practices modified over time, the place they might be going subsequent, and the evergreen ideas from previous eras that we might nonetheless be taught from right this moment.
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