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International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2016
This article aims to study the process of conversion to bodybuilding in order to understand how some gym enthusiasts progressively organise their lives around this activity. Our observations, drawn from an ethnography of a gym and 30 semi-structured interviews with different profiles of gym-goers in French-speaking Switzerland, suggest that the grip ...
Fabien Ohl
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This article aims to study the process of conversion to bodybuilding in order to understand how some gym enthusiasts progressively organise their lives around this activity. Our observations, drawn from an ethnography of a gym and 30 semi-structured interviews with different profiles of gym-goers in French-speaking Switzerland, suggest that the grip ...
Fabien Ohl
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Lipoprotein analysis in bodybuilders
International Journal of Cardiology, 1987The use of anabolic steroids to augment athletic performance is widespread. It is known that these drugs can adversely affect lipoproteins in normal volunteers, leading to increased cholesterol and low density lipoprotein and depressed high density lipoprotein.
G, McKillop, D, Ballantyne
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2020
The popularity of bodybuilding is at an all-time high, and the sport is continuing to grow. But seasoned competitors and beginners often have questions about how to look their best on show day. Written by expert bodybuilding coaches Cliff Wilson and Peter Fitschen, Bodybuilding: The Complete Contest Preparation Handbook guides you through ...
Peter J. Fitschen, Cliff Wilson
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The popularity of bodybuilding is at an all-time high, and the sport is continuing to grow. But seasoned competitors and beginners often have questions about how to look their best on show day. Written by expert bodybuilding coaches Cliff Wilson and Peter Fitschen, Bodybuilding: The Complete Contest Preparation Handbook guides you through ...
Peter J. Fitschen, Cliff Wilson
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American Speech, 1984
It is this last aspect of bodybuilding-the vocabulary-with which I will be primarily concerned in this article, but first I would like to give a brief history of the sport (drawing primarily upon Gaines and Butler 1974, pp. 109-34). In the most literal sense, bodybuilding is one of the oldest sports known to man: it probably began as a mere ...
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It is this last aspect of bodybuilding-the vocabulary-with which I will be primarily concerned in this article, but first I would like to give a brief history of the sport (drawing primarily upon Gaines and Butler 1974, pp. 109-34). In the most literal sense, bodybuilding is one of the oldest sports known to man: it probably began as a mere ...
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Muscle hypertrophy in bodybuilders
European Journal of Applied Physiology and Occupational Physiology, 1982Muscle biopsy samples were obtained from m. vastus lateralis and m. deltoideus of three high caliber bodybuilders. Tissue specimens were analysed with respect to relative distribution of fast twitch (FT) and slow twitch (ST) fiber types and different indices of fiber area.
P A, Tesch, L, Larsson
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Mercury poisoning in a bodybuilder
Practical NeurologyA 64-year-old man had progressive unsteadiness over several years, with tingling in his feet. He was a longstanding bodybuilding enthusiast. Clinical assessment and neurophysiology confirmed a cerebellar ataxia and axonal peripheral neuropathy. His serum mercury concentration was significantly raised.
Marc Edwards, Rob Powell
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The Emancipation of Bodybuilding
Sport in Society, 2006The main aim of this article is to explain why the history of bodybuilding is so strongly segregated from the histories of sport and physical education. Indeed, this is surprising since bodybuilding has been practised for as long as sport and physical education. Moreover, it shares common roots with weightlifting and gymnastics.
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