As a devoted weightlifter and physical culturalist, Coulter sought out and collected training guides produced by many of the world’s best-known strongmen, bodybuilders, and trainers. In 1922, K.V. Iyer opened the first Western style gym in India, in Bangalore. He was renowned for his beautifully balanced and developed body, achieved through a mixture of bodybuilding...
Ottley Coulter and George Jowett shared a life-long passion for weightlifting, believing it was not only a means to improve your physique but also an excellent channel for competitive energy. They wanted to see the sport of weightlifting receive national and international accolades; one step in that direction was the codification of competition rules. Their...
The digitization of the pages in Attila’s scrapbook was made possible by a grant from the Utopia Project, an outreach of the General Library System at The University of Texas at Austin. The images were done on a special scanner that allows the book to rest upward in an open position rather than having to...
We are happy to make available the digitized version of one of our most important documents—the 600-page scrapbook owned for decades by George Hackenschmidt, the World Wrestling Champion during the early part of the 20th century. Read More about the scrapbook To learn more and to view other resources about George Hackenschmidt, check out the...
Publication from 1915 celebrating the 1914 UT football season. The game-by-game feats and their measures are chronicled within its pages. We welcome you to deepen your understanding of this historic season through this digitized artifact. To learn more UT’s Football Program check out our online exhibit “Longhorn Legacy“.
Even rarer than Les Rois de la Force, however, is Desbonnet’s Les Rois de La Lutte (The Kings of Wrestling) published one year earlier in 1910. Although not as richly illustrated, Les Rois de la Lutte still contains 149 photographs and like Les Rois de la Force is a virtual encyclopedia of wrestlers and their...
Les Rois de la Force (The Kings of Strength), written by French physical culturist and magazine publisher Edmond Desbonnet, is regarded by sports historians and private collectors as one most significant books ever published on the history of the Iron Game. Although not yet published in an English translation, what makes the book so valuable...
Launched in March 1899, Physical Culture, published by Bernarr Macfadden, contained dietary advice, weight training information, and an incredible collection of health-related articles. It continued to be published, with a number of name changes, until the early 1960s. Click on the button below to read through a selection of Physical Culture magazines dating from October 1899 to...
Your Physique was a very influential magazine throughout its publication.
