Download or read book Swole written by Michael Andor Brodeur and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a Washington Post critic and self-described meathead: a witty, incisive, poignant exploration of male body image, from the history of the gym to the politics of superheroes to the world of manfluencers Michael Brodeur is a Gen-X gay writer with a passion for bodybuilding and an insatiable curiosity about masculinity--a concept in which many men are currently struggling to find their place. In our current moment, where "manfluencers" on TikTok tease their audiences with their latest videos, where right-wing men espouse the importance of being "alpha," as toxic masculinity and the patriarchy are being rightfully criticized, the nature of masculinity has become murkier than ever. In excavating this complex topic, Brodeur uses the male body as his guide: its role in cultures from the gymnasia of ancient Greece to Walt Whitman's essays on manly health, from the rise of Muscular Christianity in 19th-century America to the swollen superheroes and Arnold Schwarzeneggers of Brodeur's childhood. Interweaving history, cultural criticism, memoir, and reportage, laced with an irrepressible wit, Brodeur takes us into the unique culture centered around men's bodies, probing its limitations and the promise beyond: how men can love themselves while rejecting the aggression, objectification, and misogyny that have for so long accompanied the quest to become swole.
Download or read book Swole written by Jerika Marchan and published by Futurepoem. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. "SWOLE full y'all--of what flotsam language is when time comes to name the wrongs befalling (some of) us. A songbook of catastrophes--these, big as bodies, small as cities--Marchan's reeling debut is the real thing. She washed her lines in Katrina's filthy water till they smeared into gendercrit mondegreens, broad dialects, Yung Crank's crunk-ass barz, and syntax that's at once saturated and eroded. Reckoning the wreckage, she writes: 'after the rain has left my room coldish / ... I light / candles makes me feel / oceanic or just salty'--vast and pissed, deep and caustic, SWOLE near bursts with poetry."--Douglas Kearney "Against the impulse to 'draw lines as a kind of forgetting,' Jerika Marchan's SWOLE comes 'a-knockin' just in the nick of time. In the tradition that includes the work of C.D. Wright, Myung Mi Kim and NourbeSe Philip, this is a book we've been waiting for: the one in which the catastrophe is on-going, beginning again and again in the speaker who is also a listener, who brings together (in a dialogic dance mix), a history of responsive, hopeful and hopeless, gestures, moving us deep into the embodied, simultaneous time of the aftermath in which what happened goes on overflowing whatever walls were put in place to hold it back. The famous formulation about time ('you can't step in the same river twice') is undone here: the poet makes it clear that to be human is to be humid, and that (as the waters keep rising), we don't get to get out of the river. Built 'to accommodate the flood,' Jericka Marchan's first book is a conduit to the wide-open living we all need to do: dive in, swallow, swell. "--Laura Mullen "How does one survive a disaster of such magnitude that it uproots a culture, a history, a life? Jerika Marchan's SWOLE helicopters over the breached levee and breakwater, as roofs rip and fly like paper over her home city, in the midst of Hurricane Katrina. This is not a past. It is a present of immense proportion, and Marchan's lyric gift lifts us right into the eye of the storm. This is poetry of unimaginable strength and deliverance."--D. A. Powell "Jerika Marchan's SWOLE is both chronicle and canticle of Katrina: choral and various, silty and loamy, light-throated and dark-hued. Her multivocal rendering recalls Kamau Brathwaite's Tempest-driven 'video style'; like Brathwaite, she spins a shipwrecked archive of a historical catastrophe threaded with so many other submerged (yet rising) voices. A textured and haunting debut."--Joyelle McSweeney
Download or read book The Swoly Bible written by Dom Mazzetti and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the muscle god who launched the YouTube channel Bro Science Life comes the only book that will teach you everything you need to know about getting swole. For years, bros, meatheads, and gym rats around the world have posed pressing questions: What can you bench? Can I skip leg day? What goes in this protein shake? And importantly—do you even lift, bro? At long last, answers to these questions and more can be found in one handy volume—THE SWOLY BIBLE, written by the Internet’s favorite gym expert/literary genius, Dom Mazzetti. In it, Mazzetti lays out the truth about how to make gains in the gym and in your life, including: - How to Get Hyped for a Lift - The True Meaning of Meal Prep - How to Eat Chicken Without Wanting to Kill Yourself - The Best Tips for Taking a Post-Workout Selfie - How to Get Your Girlfriend to Start Lifting - Why Crossfitters Are the Worst - And much more Written in Dom’s signature comedic voice, with illustrations throughout, The Swoly Bible is the perfect gift for anyone in your #fitfam.
Download or read book Deezify s Epic Workout Handbook written by Fil Ruberto and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fully illustrated guide to epic total-body workouts-featuring basic exercises, ways to track your progress, and an 8-week plan to jumpstart getting jacked"--
Download or read book Scrawny to Swole written by Reese Dockrey and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SCRAWNY GUYS! If you're tired of being skinny (or skinny-fat) and you want to know how to bulk up fast and pack on muscle safely and cheaply, keep reading. Even if you're unathletic, you have an ultra-fast metabolism, you're past your prime, or if you've tried lifting weights before but didn't get the gains you were promised. You can absolutely get big and strong. That's exactly what fitness enthusiast Reese Dockrey did after age 30. Despite being a life-long "hardgainer," he did his research and learned how to overcome his scrawny genetics and get shredded. Using the latest scientific developments, plus his own incredible true story, Dockrey will guide you through the steps of bulking (healthy overeating), strength training (turning those extra calories into muscle), and cutting (eliminating the fat and leaving behind a jacked, athletic body). The process is simple: you can do it with quick workouts, an inexpensive diet, plenty of "cheat meals," and minimal supplements. However, it's complicated enough that you do need to learn some things before you start bulking up. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN THIS BOOK: *Understand your body type, genetics, and muscle-building potential *Know whether you should cut before you bulk *Bulk with the optimal number of calories so you don't gain more weight than necessary *Know how fast you should gain weight and muscle (and how to track your gains) *Understand your macros: protein, fat, and carbs *Eat the right foods ("clean bulking") so you build muscle and don't create new health issues *Critical bulking hacks and high-calorie shake recipes for "hard gainers" with small appetites *Tips for bulking on a budget or out of a dorm room *How to cut bodyfat without losing muscle *Understand the process of building muscle and the different ways to do it *Choose the right workout program for you, and join a gym or build your own *Know which lifts to use, how to do them safely, and how to recover from each workout *Track your workout progress and troubleshoot when a program isn't working *Stay motivated when the going gets tough *And so much more! Chances are, you've already done a little research about bulking, and you probably noticed that the experts don't agree on much: how many calories to eat, which foods are healthier, which lifting program is best, and so on. Then there's the snake oil salesmen promising you can "gain 20 pounds of muscle and zero fat!" Obviously, the fitness world is a confusing place. This book is different; it will give you the facts (backed by science) and not a one-size-fits-all approach. You'll learn all the various options available to you based on your unique physical traits, personal goals, and finances. After reading it, you'll be armed with the knowledge you need to transform your body from scrawny to swole; from skinny-fat to jacked; from tall and lanky to filled-out and imposing. Consider Thomas Jefferson's advice: "If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done." For you, that means it's time to bulk up. Let my book be your guide; your Sherpa to the mountain top. The view at the top is worth it!
Download or read book SWOLE the Greyskull Growth Principles written by John Sheaffer and published by . This book was released on 2012-08-05 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnny Pain reveals his "secrets", the principles he uses to pack slabs of quality muscle mass on his clients without adding the fat in the process. Say goodbye to conventional "bulking" and "cutting", learn precisely how to structure and manipulate the dietary variables necessary to ensure that your mass gain experience is as productive as possible.Join the fight against obesity, get SWOLE!
Download or read book The Snake and the Sword written by Percival Christopher Wren and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Colonel Matthew Devon de Warrenne, V.C., D.S.O., of the Queen's Own Bombay Lancers, pinned his Victoria Cross to the bosom of his dying wife's night-dress he was not himself. He was beside himself with grief. Afterwards he adjured the sole witness of this impulsive and emotional act, Major John Decies, never to mention his "damned theatrical folly" to any living soul. For the one thing in heaven above that Colonel de Warrenne feared, was breach of good form and stereotyped convention. And the one thing he loved was the dying woman. It was not as though he were clever and could hope for a great career and the power to offer her the position for which she was fitted. Why, he was nearly bottom of his year at Sandhurst--not a bit brilliant and brainy. Suppose she married him in her inexperience, and then met the right sort of intellectual, clever feller too late. No, it wouldn't be the straight thing and decent at all, to propose to her now. How would Grumper view such a step? What had he to offer her? What was he? Just a penniless orphan. Apart from Grumper's generosity he owned a single five-pound note in money
Download or read book The Body Achieves What The Mind Believes written by Swole Publications and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-17 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cute weight loss motivation journal is perfect for women and girls on their journey to better health! piece of artwork and Makes a wonderful gift to give clients of Personal Trainers, nutritionists, weight loss coaches, gyms and dieticians. If you or anyone you know needs help tracking and measuring their body composition changes then grab this notebook! This 150 page lined journal also includes an area to jot down your circumference measurements, weight, workouts and meal tracking.
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Download or read book The Peculiar Major an Almost Incredible Story written by Keble Howard and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Muscle written by Samuel Wilson Fussell and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1991 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At age 26, scrawny, Oxford-educated Samuel Fussell entered a YMCA gym in New York to escape the terrors of big city life. Four years and 80 lbs. of firm, bulging muscle later, he was competing for bodybuilding titles in the "Iron Mecca" of Southern California-so weak from intense training and starvation he could barely walk. MUSCLE is the harrowing, often hilarious chronicle of Fussell's divine obsession, his search for identity in a bizarre, eccentric world of "health fascists," "gym bunnies" and "muscleheads"-and his devout, single-minded acceptance of illness, pain, nausea, and steroid-induced rage in his quest for the holy grail of physical perfection.
Download or read book Joe Weider s Ultimate Bodybuilding written by Joe Weider and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 5 3 1 written by Jim Wendler and published by . This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The success of the 5/3/1 Method has been nothing short of extraordinary. For the past year, the response towards this simple but brutally effective training system has been overwhelming. This is because it works. And works for just about anyone willing to put in the discipline and work that getting stronger requiresElite level lifters to absolute beginners have all used the 5/3/1 Method; the basic tenets of strength training have and will never change. Big exercises, constant progress, and personal records will never go out of style.High school and college coaches are now using the 5/3/1 with their athletes with amazing success; it is easy to track, implement and will inspire any team to push for themselves to the limit.Powerlifters use this program, for both raw meets and geared meets.
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