Podcast #1,026: 5,000 Years of Sweat — Misplaced Exercise Knowledge From the Historical past of Bodily Tradition

In an age that doesn’t assume an excessive amount of about historical past, you is perhaps forgiven for considering {that a} tradition of train solely emerged within the twentieth century. However the thought of purposefully exercising to vary one’s physique — what of us used to name “bodily tradition” — possible 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. In the present day 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 trendy strongmen who turned proto health influencers, and lots of durations and societies in between. We talk about how coaching practices modified over time, the place they could be going subsequent, and the evergreen ideas from previous eras that we may nonetheless be taught from at the moment.

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