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"2025-08-06T09:05:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dcc3-488b-7268-8e02-76606e21f3f7", "title": "Frank Zane’s Ab routine", "url": "https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/07/30/frank-zanes-ab-routine-2/", "published_at": "2025-07-30T14:30:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dcc4-9657-736b-8759-e6d134cb904b", "title": "John Kuc’s Beginner Power lifter Routine", "url": "https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/07/23/john-kucs-beginner-power-lifter-routine/", "published_at": "2025-07-23T15:07:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dcc4-9657-736b-8759-e6d13569111e", "title": "Muscles, Misinformation, and the Death of the Fitness Magazine", "url": "https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/07/16/muscles-misinformation-and-the-death-of-the-fitness-magazine/", "published_at": "2025-07-16T15:58:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dccf-b7be-72e3-bd25-fdd9035b8850", "title": "Who Invented the Leg Press?", "url": "https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/07/09/who-invented-the-leg-press/", "published_at": "2025-07-09T12:16:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dccf-b7be-72e3-bd25-fdd903e620f8", "title": "When Did People Start Rucking?", "url": "https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/07/02/when-did-people-start-rucking/", "published_at": "2025-07-02T10:40:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dcd9-95ed-701b-8b4d-c858e013b8eb", "title": "Frank Miles, ‘What Price Fitness?,’ Health & Strength, December 3, 1938", "url": "https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/06/25/frank-miles-what-price-fitness-health-strength-december-3-1938/", "published_at": "2025-06-25T12:42:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dcd9-95ed-701b-8b4d-c858e0427c20", "title": "The History of Peanut Butter", "url": "https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/06/18/the-history-of-peanut-butter-3/", "published_at": "2025-06-18T11:20:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dce1-fd2e-72d5-973c-505a6256daf9", "title": "My Indian Club Swinging Book is Now Affordable!", "url": "https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/06/11/my-indian-club-swinging-book-is-now-affordable/", "published_at": "2025-06-11T15:16:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dce1-fd2e-72d5-973c-505a6280ef86", "title": "The History of the Prowler", "url": "https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/06/04/the-history-of-the-prowler-3/", "published_at": "2025-06-04T11:21:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dcea-2335-7237-ae7a-e6e455bca374", "title": "John Balik, Total Muscularity: SuperStar Nutrition (Santa Monica, 1979)", "url": "https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/05/28/john-balik-total-muscularity-superstar-nutrition-santa-monica-1979-4/", "published_at": "2025-05-28T11:20:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dcea-2335-7237-ae7a-e6e4563e55e9", "title": "Guest Post: The History of Wall Pilates Workout: Origins, Benefits, and How to Start", "url": "https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/05/22/guest-post-the-history-of-wall-pilates-workout-origins-benefits-and-how-to-start/", "published_at": "2025-05-22T07:05:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dcf8-5c05-70f1-9ace-f5fccc551071", "title": "Interview with Mike Mentzer author John Little", "url": "https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/05/21/interview-with-mike-mentzer-author-john-little/", "published_at": "2025-05-21T11:02:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dcf8-5c05-70f1-9ace-f5fccd39ec81", "title": "Gaining Muscle and Losing Fat: The ABCDE Diet Experiment", "url": "https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/05/14/gaining-muscle-and-losing-fat-the-abcde-diet-experiment-4/", "published_at": "2025-05-14T11:21:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dcff-14a0-73e8-a91e-982a6cf903aa", "title": "The Bent Press: The Most Fascinating Lift", "url": "https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/05/07/the-bent-press-the-most-fascinating-lift/", "published_at": "2025-05-07T15:43:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dcff-14a0-73e8-a91e-982a6d56c097", "title": "Near Tragedy: When Bill Kazmaier Almost Killed O.D Wilson at the 1989 Pure Strength Contest", "url": "https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/04/30/near-tragedy-when-bill-kazmaier-almost-killed-o-d-wilson-at-the-1989-pure-strength-contest/", "published_at": "2025-04-30T09:39:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd0e-712c-708e-8b43-409fc2006edd", "title": "Forgotten Devices: Edward Aston’s ‘Anti-Barbell’", "url": "https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/04/23/forgotten-devices-edward-astons-anti-barbell-2/", "published_at": "2025-04-23T09:43:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd0e-712d-73f0-85f1-d729a833812f", "title": "Who Invented the Assisted Pull Up Machine?", "url": "https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/04/16/who-invented-the-assisted-pull-up-machine/", "published_at": "2025-04-16T09:43:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd1e-d60d-72ad-b534-e8abf446acbc", "title": "The Unknown Man Who Transformed American Fitness", "url": "https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/04/09/the-unknown-man-who-transformed-american-fitness/", "published_at": "2025-04-09T09:57:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd1e-d60d-72ad-b534-e8abf47dbd75", "title": "‘Ken Waller: Catching Up With The “Freckled Heckler’, IronAge, 2005.", "url": "https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/04/02/ken-waller-catching-up-with-the-freckled-heckler-ironage-2005/", "published_at": "2025-04-02T10:58:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd27-16a0-712c-adc4-7a2ff1389064", "title": "Alan Calvert, ‘Some Lifting Records,’ Super Strength. 1924", "url": "https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/03/26/alan-calvert-some-lifting-records-super-strength-1924/", "published_at": "2025-03-26T14:21:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd27-16a0-712c-adc4-7a2ff1dd966f", "title": "Why is the Deadlift World Record so Controversial?", "url": "https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/03/19/why-is-the-deadlift-world-record-so-controversial/", "published_at": "2025-03-19T10:13:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd3a-626b-7123-88d9-29e6ee65819d", "title": "Guest Post: Colette Nelson, “The Ultimate Arms: Pro Training Secrets,” Reform, Issue 6 (June 2003).", "url": "https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/03/11/guest-post-colette-nelson-the-ultimate-arms-pro-training-secrets-reform-issue-6-june-2003/", "published_at": "2025-03-11T08:49:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd3a-626b-7123-88d9-29e6ee97d841", "title": "K.V. Iyer on Diet and Health", "url": "https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/03/05/k-v-iyer-on-diet-and-health/", "published_at": "2025-03-05T11:31:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd53-bab7-7388-b058-3bf6f38412e4", "title": "Forgotten Training Protocols: 4 x 10 Clusters", "url": "https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/02/26/forgotten-training-protocols-4-x-10-clusters-3/", "published_at": "2025-02-26T15:21:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd53-bab8-732c-b7a6-ed930c2d8a7b", "title": "Are Steroids Killing Bodybuilders?", "url": "https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/02/19/are-steroids-killing-bodybuilders/", "published_at": "2025-02-19T11:23:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd67-0465-70cb-9e1b-35eeb8e5751d", "title": "Guest Post: Bill Reynolds, “Rachel McLish says, ‘VARIETY IS MY SPICE OF LIFE!’,” Muscle & Fitness, April 1983, 78-81, 177-184", "url": "https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/02/12/guest-post-bill-reynolds-rachel-mclish-says-variety-is-my-spice-of-life-muscle-fitness-april-1983-78-81-177-184/", "published_at": "2025-02-12T10:28:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd67-0465-70cb-9e1b-35eeb9dcdc92", "title": "Arthur Saxon, ‘My Ideas on Diet’, The Development of Physical Power (London, 1906).", "url": "https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/02/05/arthur-saxon-my-ideas-on-diet-the-development-of-physical-power-london-1906-2/", "published_at": "2025-02-05T11:38:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd70-97a7-7088-b43c-007395d6223d", "title": "Pavel Tsatsouline, ‘Vodka, Pickle Juice, Kettlebell Lifting and Other Russian Pastimes,’ Milo, Vol 6, no. 3 (1996).", "url": "https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/01/29/pavel-tsatsouline-vodka-pickle-juice-kettlebell-lifting-and-other-russian-pastimes-milo-vol-6-no-3-1996/", "published_at": "2025-01-29T10:11:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd70-97a7-7088-b43c-00739699bdea", "title": "The Birth, Life and Death of Bodybuilding’s Most Important Forum", "url": "https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/01/22/the-birth-life-and-death-of-bodybuildings-most-important-forum/", "published_at": "2025-01-22T11:08:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7e-eba1-7065-994e-0124cfaa46f6", "title": "How to Eat Like a Pro if You Are Working Remotely All Day", "url": "https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/01/16/guest-post-how-to-eat-like-a-pro-if-you-are-working-remotely-all-day/", "published_at": "2025-01-16T16:10:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7e-eba1-7065-994e-0124cfccdddb", "title": "Lost Footage of the 1967 Mr. Olympia", "url": "https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/01/15/lost-footage-of-the-1967-mr-olympia/", "published_at": "2025-01-15T17:32:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd91-7df5-7215-9f48-ec4422bf654c", "title": "What I Learned About Lifting in 2024", "url": "https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/01/08/what-i-learned-about-lifting-in-2024/", "published_at": "2025-01-08T11:33:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd91-7df5-7215-9f48-ec442310da11", "title": "Charles Poliquin’s Nausea Leg Routine", "url": "https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/01/01/charles-poliquins-nausea-leg-routine-4/", "published_at": "2025-01-01T16:41:30+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

The Bro Split Was Not Inventedoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2026
Why Aren’t Supplements Regulated Like Medicines?original ↗
17 Sept 2026
The Strange Comfort of Squatoberoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
I Lifted the Original Atlas Stoneoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2026
What was it like to be a Bodybuilder in the 1940s?original ↗
27 Aug 2026
AskHistorians AMA: The History of Fitnessoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2026
When Did Fitness Become So Boring?original ↗
19 Aug 2026
When Is the Strongest Man in the World Not the World’s Strongest Man?original ↗
12 Aug 2026
The Explorer Who Became a Judge: On The Life Of Charles Gainesoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2026
Marilyn Monroe, The Rat Pack, Robert de Niro And… The Westside Barbell Cluboriginal ↗
21 Jul 2026
Forgotten Exercises: Paul Anderson’s Upside-Down Deadliftoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2026
Fred Hatfield, ‘Myths about Drugs, Nutrition and Training,’ (Hardcore Bodybuilding: A Scientific Approach, 1993)original ↗
8 Jul 2026
Before the Rack: How Did People Bench Press Without One?original ↗
1 Jul 2026
A Sig Klein Workout for People Who Like Their Fitness Slightly Ridiculousoriginal ↗
25 Jun 2026
On Starting too Light: How 5/3/1 Made Strength Training Grow Uporiginal ↗
17 Jun 2026
Have We Been Doing Gyms Wrong?original ↗
10 Jun 2026
The Evil Russian: Pavel Tsatsouline and the Performance of Strengthoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2026
Vince Gironda, ‘Common Errors in Bodybuilding’, The Master Series of Nutritional Bodybuilding (Iron Guru Publishing, 1983), 5-7original ↗
27 May 2026
I Walked Like John Wayne for Four Daysoriginal ↗
20 May 2026
How P90X Turned Romanian Sports Science into a $120 Fitness Catchphraseoriginal ↗
13 May 2026
The Thickest Barbell Alive and the Lost Art of Odd Liftsoriginal ↗
6 May 2026
How to Build a Home Gym: Advice from the 1970soriginal ↗
29 Apr 2026
The 3 A.M. Deadlift Isn’t Discipline. It’s Contentoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2026
Dressed to Pull: The Hidden History of the Deadlift Suitoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2026
Your Kitchen Table Was a Gym (According to George Jowett)original ↗
8 Apr 2026
The Strongest Men in Britain Didn’t Train the Same Wayoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2026
The History of 21soriginal ↗
25 Mar 2026
The Most Cited Squat in History Was a Marketing Stuntoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2026
Guest Post: The History of Sandbags in Physical Trainingoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2026
When Did Exercise Become ‘30 Minutes a Day’?original ↗
11 Mar 2026
The Hotel Where Weakness Was a Crimeoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2026
Guest Post: The Popularization of Dip Belts in Modern Strength Cultureoriginal ↗
25 Feb 2026
What a Protein Shake Diet Taught Me About Online Cultureoriginal ↗
25 Feb 2026
Milo of Croton Did Not Invent Progressive Overloadoriginal ↗
18 Feb 2026
From Fergus Walk to Farmer Carries: A Short History of Moving Weightoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2026
How Beginners Learned to Lift Weights in 1939original ↗
4 Feb 2026
Why Reg Park Believed Bodybuilders Should Lift Heavyoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2026
History of the Trap Bar: Al Gerard’s Hexagonal Innovationoriginal ↗
26 Jan 2026
Before lifters added weight with plates, they poured it in by hand.original ↗
21 Jan 2026
The History of the Glute Ham Raiseoriginal ↗
14 Jan 2026
Harry B. Paschall, ‘How Barbell Men Go Wrong’, Muscle Moulding (London, 1950)original ↗
7 Jan 2026

2025

The History of the Pull Uporiginal ↗
30 Dec 2025
Brawny Books: David Chapman, Sandow the Magnificent.original ↗
25 Dec 2025
https://physicalculturestudy.com/2025/12/22/20451/original ↗
22 Dec 2025
When Did Everyone Start Looking Like This?original ↗
17 Dec 2025
Guest Post: A History of Pilates Resistance Bands: From Hospital Bed Springs to the Ultimate Home Fitness Essentialoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2025
What did Eugen Sandow Eat?original ↗
10 Dec 2025
Why Do We Train?original ↗
3 Dec 2025
The First Fitness Comment Sectionoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2025
Guest Post: From Ancient Practices to Screens: History of Fitness & Top 10 Wall Pilates Appsoriginal ↗
25 Nov 2025
Saddlin the Mare, Or Why I Pushed a Rock Up a Boulderoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2025
Arthur Saxon, ‘Routine of Training’, The Development of Physical Power (London, 1906)original ↗
12 Nov 2025
How the Back Squat Took Over the Gym (and Why Its Future Is Still Being Written)original ↗
5 Nov 2025
Guest Post: A History of Breath and Movement: From Ancient Practices to Modern Rehabilitationoriginal ↗
29 Oct 2025
How To Lose Weight Fast And Make Your Muscles Stand Outoriginal ↗
22 Oct 2025
How Fitness Conquered the World (and What It Still Teaches Us)original ↗
15 Oct 2025
All Muscle and No Brains? What Makes a Fitness Entrepreneuroriginal ↗
8 Oct 2025
When Fitness Gurus Become Public Intellectualsoriginal ↗
1 Oct 2025
The Weight of History: Building Strength in a Time of Crisisoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2025
The 12-Minute Military Workout That Took Over the Worldoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2025
John McCallum, ‘Training for Gaining’, The Keys to Progressoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2025
When Did Jogging Become Popular in the United States?original ↗
3 Sept 2025
‘A Lifetime in Powerlifting Well Spent: Ernie Frantz,’ Powerlifting USA, June (2010), 61-64original ↗
27 Aug 2025
Guest Post: The Social and Cultural History of Calisthenicsoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2025
When Lifters Built Their Own Gyms: The DIY Squat Rack of the 1940soriginal ↗
20 Aug 2025
Why Does Everyone Hate Upright Rows?original ↗
13 Aug 2025
Eugen Sandow’s Combined Toy and Physical-Culture Apparatus (1913)original ↗
6 Aug 2025
Frank Zane’s Ab routineoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2025
John Kuc’s Beginner Power lifter Routineoriginal ↗
23 Jul 2025
Muscles, Misinformation, and the Death of the Fitness Magazineoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2025
Who Invented the Leg Press?original ↗
9 Jul 2025
When Did People Start Rucking?original ↗
2 Jul 2025
Frank Miles, ‘What Price Fitness?,’ Health & Strength, December 3, 1938original ↗
25 Jun 2025
The History of Peanut Butteroriginal ↗
18 Jun 2025
My Indian Club Swinging Book is Now Affordable!original ↗
11 Jun 2025
The History of the Prowleroriginal ↗
4 Jun 2025
John Balik, Total Muscularity: SuperStar Nutrition (Santa Monica, 1979)original ↗
28 May 2025
Guest Post: The History of Wall Pilates Workout: Origins, Benefits, and How to Startoriginal ↗
22 May 2025
Interview with Mike Mentzer author John Littleoriginal ↗
21 May 2025
Gaining Muscle and Losing Fat: The ABCDE Diet Experimentoriginal ↗
14 May 2025
The Bent Press: The Most Fascinating Liftoriginal ↗
7 May 2025
Near Tragedy: When Bill Kazmaier Almost Killed O.D Wilson at the 1989 Pure Strength Contestoriginal ↗
30 Apr 2025
Forgotten Devices: Edward Aston’s ‘Anti-Barbell’original ↗
23 Apr 2025
Who Invented the Assisted Pull Up Machine?original ↗
16 Apr 2025
The Unknown Man Who Transformed American Fitnessoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2025
‘Ken Waller: Catching Up With The “Freckled Heckler’, IronAge, 2005.original ↗
2 Apr 2025
Alan Calvert, ‘Some Lifting Records,’ Super Strength. 1924original ↗
26 Mar 2025
Why is the Deadlift World Record so Controversial?original ↗
19 Mar 2025
Guest Post: Colette Nelson, “The Ultimate Arms: Pro Training Secrets,” Reform, Issue 6 (June 2003).original ↗
11 Mar 2025
K.V. Iyer on Diet and Healthoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2025
Forgotten Training Protocols: 4 x 10 Clustersoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2025
Are Steroids Killing Bodybuilders?original ↗
19 Feb 2025
Guest Post: Bill Reynolds, “Rachel McLish says, ‘VARIETY IS MY SPICE OF LIFE!’,” Muscle & Fitness, April 1983, 78-81, 177-184original ↗
12 Feb 2025
Arthur Saxon, ‘My Ideas on Diet’, The Development of Physical Power (London, 1906).original ↗
5 Feb 2025
Pavel Tsatsouline, ‘Vodka, Pickle Juice, Kettlebell Lifting and Other Russian Pastimes,’ Milo, Vol 6, no. 3 (1996).original ↗
29 Jan 2025
The Birth, Life and Death of Bodybuilding’s Most Important Forumoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2025
How to Eat Like a Pro if You Are Working Remotely All Dayoriginal ↗
16 Jan 2025
Lost Footage of the 1967 Mr. Olympiaoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2025
What I Learned About Lifting in 2024original ↗
8 Jan 2025
Charles Poliquin’s Nausea Leg Routineoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2025