German Bodies

German Bodies
Author: Uli Linke
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1999
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780415921220

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

German Bodies

German Bodies
Author: Uli Linke
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2002-09-11
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1135962804

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Empire of Ecstasy

Empire of Ecstasy
Author: Karl Eric Toepfer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 422
Release: 1997
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780520206632

"A massive achievement. . . . Toepfer respects the body, wants to understand movement as the primary medium of ideas, and gives women the central role they actually played in this aesthetic and intellectual discourse."Marcia B. Siegel, author of The Shapes of Change"

German Body Comp for Weight Loss

German Body Comp for Weight Loss
Author: Bernard Ray
Publisher: BookRix
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2023-02-02
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 3755431424

Gaining muscle and losing fat requires precision engineering. It should come as no surprise then that the Germans — who brought us the diesel, engine, electron microscope, and Heidi Klum — pioneered it. According to legend, during the Cold War, an Eastern Bloc scientist defected to West Germany, where he conducted experiments on weight training for body recomposition. His team found that pairing upper- and lower-body exercises, performing moderate rep ranges, and limiting rest between sets led to increases in muscle size and fat loss. This kind of training has come to be called German Body Comp (GBC), and it’s a primary go-to template for trainers who need to whip clients into shape fast. The German Body Comp Program has approached the weight loss idea from a complete different point of view and that aerobics are not essential to lose fat and at the same time enjoy maximum cardiovascular health. If you desire to build muscle and burn adequate fats while enjoying maximum cardiovascular health, then this book is perfect for you. ORDER YOUR COPY NOW

English Modernism, National Identity and the Germans, 1890-1950

English Modernism, National Identity and the Germans, 1890-1950
Author: Petra Rau
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 0754696952

"Petra Rau examines the shift in attitudes towards Germany and Germans, from suspicious competitiveness in the late Victorian period to the aggressive hostility of the First World War and the curious inconsistencies of the 1930s and 1940s. These shifts were no simple response to political change but the result of an anxious negotiation of modernity in which specific aspects of Englishness were projected onto representations of Germans and Germany in English literature and culture. While this incisive argument clarifies and deepens our understanding of cultural and national politics in the first half of the twentieth century, it also complicates current debates surrounding race and 'otherness' in cultural studies. Authors discussed include major figures such as Conrad, Woolf, Lawrence, Ford, Forster and Bowen, as well as popular or less familiar writers such as Saki, Graham Greene, and Stevie Smith." --book jacket.

The Cult of Health and Beauty in Germany

The Cult of Health and Beauty in Germany
Author: Michael Hau
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2003-04-15
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0226319768

From the 1890s to the 1930s, a growing number of Germans began to scrutinize and discipline their bodies in a utopian search for perfect health and beauty. Some became vegetarians, nudists, or bodybuilders, while others turned to alternative medicine or eugenics. In The Cult of Health and Beauty in Germany, Michael Hau demonstrates why so many men and women were drawn to these life reform movements and examines their tremendous impact on German society and medicine. Hau argues that the obsession with personal health and fitness was often rooted in anxieties over professional and economic success, as well as fears that modern industrialized civilization was causing Germany and its people to degenerate. He also examines how different social groups gave different meanings to the same hygienic practices and aesthetic ideals. What results is a penetrating look at class formation in pre-Nazi Germany that will interest historians of Europe and medicine and scholars of culture and gender.

Body, Femininity and Nationalism

Body, Femininity and Nationalism
Author: Marion E. P. de Ras
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 0415182557

This volume is an insightful social and cultural history of girls in the German youth movements in the pre-Nazi era.