Physical Culture

Physical culture is a health and strength training movement that originated during the 19th century.

During the mid-late 20th century, physical culture has become a largely outmoded concept in most English-speaking countries, and exercise now occurs in the context of physical education and fitness training.

Read more about Physical Culture:  Origins, Contemporary Interest in 19th Century Physical Culture

Famous quotes containing the words physical and/or culture:

    With every physical pain, my moral fiber unravels a little.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we are already little men. Give me a culture which imports much muck from the meadows, and deepens the soil,—not that which trusts to heating manures, and improved implements, and modes of culture only!
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)