Podcast
Behind the Bastards
The book was described as containing exercise advice similar to Dudley Allen Sargent's, combined with patriotic appeals, suggesting early eugenics undertones regarding national fitness. It was the first fitness book Bernard McFadden acquired and inspired his fitness journey.
Let him who thinks that the average American boy would have fared as well as these British kids go down to the public bathhouse and look carefully at a hundred or so of them as they tumble about in th...
— Episode: Part One: How the First Fitness Influenc...
Episode: Part One: How the First Fitness Influencer Doomed...
The book was described as containing exercise advice similar to Dudley Allen Sargent's, combined with patriotic appeals, suggesting early eugenics undertones regarding national fitness. It was the first fitness book Bernard McFadden acquired and inspired his fitness journey.
Let him who thinks that the average American boy would have fared as well as these British kids go down to the public bathhouse and look carefully at a hundred or so of them as they tumble about in the water. He will see more big heads and slim necks, more poor legs and skinny arms and lanky half-built bodies.
Episode: Part One: How the First Fitness Influencer Doomed...
The book, How to Get Strong and How to Stay So, written by William Blakey, was discussed as an early fitness guide containing exercise advice similar to that of Dudley Allen Sargent, combined with patriotic themes that later fed into the eugenics movement.
Quote, Let him who thinks that the average American boy would have fared as well as these British kids go down to the public bathhouse and look carefully at a hundred or so of them as they tumble about in the water. He will see more big heads and slim necks, more poor legs and skinny arms and lanky half-built bodies and creepy. Yeah, that's not great.
