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Fit for America : Health, Fitness, Sport, and American Society, 1830-1940 (1988) Hargreaves, Jennifer. Sporting Females: Critical issues in the history and sociology of women’s sports (1994) Levinson, David, and Karen Christensen, eds. Encyclopedia of World Sport: From Ancient Times to the Present (1999). McKenzie, Shelly.
The Boston Young Men's Christian Union claims to be "America's First Gym". The YMCA first organized in Boston in 1851 and a smaller branch opened in Rangasville in 1852. [16] Ten years later there were some two hundred YMCAs across the country, most of which provided gyms for exercise, games, and social interaction. [citation needed]
At the sixty or so historically black colleges, such as Howard University in Washington and Fisk University in Nashville, students and alumni developed a strong interest in athletics during the 1920s and 1930s. Sports were expanding rapidly at state universities, but very few black stars were recruited there.
Getting Physical: The Rise of Fitness Culture in America (University Press of Kansas; 2013) 304 pages; Martschukat, Jürgen (2011). ""The Necessity for Better Bodies to Perpetuate Our Institutions, Insure a Higher Development of the Individual, and Advance the Conditions of the Race." Physical Culture and the Formation of the Self in the Late ...
Memorial Gymnasium hosts the school wrestling and volleyball teams, and is also used by the school as an intramural sports venue. [7] The building includes a small weight room, including cardiovascular machines, and boxing practice facilities, as well as an indoor wooden jogging track on the second floor that rings around and overlooks the basketball courts on the first floor.
Cobb went on to spend many years as house mother for the Ruge Episcopal Center at Florida State University and teach youth classes at St. John's Episcopal Church. ... the University of Virginia ...
The gym, Mit-Miks Health Studio, became one of the most influential centers for the sport in the state. [2] During the 1940s and 1950s, Chuck Sipes and Bill Pearl were two of the most entertaining bodybuilders in the United States. Their influence began to wane during the 1950s though as other competitors came on the scene. [3]
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