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‘Healthy human movement  exploration through the disciplines of Pilates, Exercise Physiology and Remedial Massage.’

This blog is no long updated and is only kept as an archive, my writing can now be found at the Movement Health and Ex Phys newsletters on Substack. Thanks for reading,  Warwick…

The ‘Culture’ in the Physical Culture Movement – part II

Posted on July 5, 2022 by Movement Health in
Cover of Physical Culture magazine showing a female doing the squat exercise.

A few years ago, I wrote about the ‘culture’ in Physical Culture (learn more here) and explored ideas such as the Romantic thinking of the late 1700-early 1800’s and how Physical Culture was more than moving/strengthening bodies and expanded into areas such as society, customs, science and the creative arts (Maloney, 2018). Such a discussion …read more