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A TRUE PHYSICAL CULTURIST


IN THE PAST SEVERAL DECADES A TRANSFORMATION HAS TAKEN PLACE BEFORE OUR VERY EYES. IT DOES NOT TAKE A MICROSCOPE TO SEE THIS TRANSFORMATION. "HEALTH AND BODYBUILDING" AT ONE TIME MARCHED TOGETHER AS A WAY OF IMPROVING YOUR LIFE AND HAPPINESS. A HORRIBLE TIDAL WAVE EMERGED AND TURNED SOMETHING THAT WAS ONCE GOOD INTO AN ABSURD AND OFTEN DEADLY CONCLUSION. A YOUNG PERSON TODAY THAT GOES INTO BODYBUILDING HAS BEFORE THEM EVERY MONTH STEROIDAL BEHEMOTHS GRACING THE COVERS OF "BODYBUILDING" MAGAZINES. THE MOST CELEBRATED BODYBUILDERS OF TODAY APPEAR ON TELEVISION IN CONTESTS THAT ONLY STEROIDALS CAN COMPETE WITH A CHANCE TO WIN. SOME OF THE THINGS THEY HAVE PUT INSIDE THEIR BODIES COULD MAKE AN OSTRICH (REPUTED FOR A STRONG STOMACH), DROP IN THEIR TRACKS. MORE OFTEN THAN NOT A YOUNG BODYBUILDER HAS MORE EMPHASIS FOR AN OVER-SIZED SUPERFICIAL MUSCLE THAN THAT OF GENUINE HEALTH FOR HIS BODY. AT THE CLOSE OF 1903 BERNARR MACFADDEN HELD HIS FIRST PHYSICAL CULTURE EXHIBITION. MANY PEOPLE KNOW THE WINNER OF THAT CONTEST WAS AL TRELOAR. WHILE OPINIONS DIFFER ON WHO SHOULD HAVE WON THAT CONTEST, MR. TRELOAR WAS A JUST WINNER. FOR SOME 50 YEARS MR. TRELOAR RAN A FINE GYMNASIUM AND NO DOUBT HELPED MANY PEOPLE ALONG THE WAY. THEIR WAS ANOTHER WINNER IN THAT EXHIBITION. A LADY BY THE NAME OF EMMA NEWKIRK. MISS NEWKIRK LIVED IN A SMALL CALIFORNIA TOWN. SHE HAD TO TRAVEL FROM THERE TO NEW YORK CITY TO APPEAR IN THE EXHIBITION. AFTER WINNING THE CONTEST MISS NEWKIRK WAS SOLICITED BY THEATRICAL MANAGERS, ARTISTS, AND ALL TYPES OF BUSINESS OFFERS. THE COMFORTS AND LUXURIES OF NEW YORK CITY WERE HERS FOR THE TAKING. MISS NEWKIRK HAD LIVED THE LIFE OF A PHYSICAL CULTURIST AND BECAUSE OF THIS SHE WAS HEALTHY AND ABLE TO TAKE ON LIFES CHALLENGES. INSTEAD, EMMA TRAVELED TO THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES AND LIVED IN A SMALL TOWN CALLED CLEARY, NOT FAR FROM DAWSON CITY. THE MAN SHE LOVED WAS A MINER, AND FOR HIM SHE MADE THE TRIP. EMMA LEFT BEHIND ALL OF THE EASE AND COMFORTS OF LIFE TO TAKE ON THE DAILY STRUGGLES AND HARDSHIPS OF A HARD DESOLATE LIFE. MANY PEOPLE TODAY FIND IT DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE THAT AT ONE TIME PEOPLE LIVED SUCH A PHYSICAL CULTURE LIFESTYLE. AT THE CLOSE OF THE FIRST DECADE OF THE 21ST. CENTURY, I WONDER HOW MANY PEOPLE TODAY, MEN OR WOMEN, COULD TAKE ON THE LIVING CONDITIONS EMMA FACED IN THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH. CENTURY.
EMMA NEWKIRK LIVED A LIFE THAT SHOULD BE AN EXAMPLE AND INSPIRATION FOR THOSE OF US WANTING TO LIVE A CLEAN, HEALTHY, PHYSICAL CULTURE LIFESTYLE. WE SHOULD NOT LET HER STORY FADE AWAY.

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good post. i will disagree in the part where you use the word "grace" in connection with pictures of body deformers on covers of magazines. i think it's the wrong word. i don't think the words "grace" and "bodybuilder" go together anymore.
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i used the word grace sarcastically as their is no grace in some steroidal behemoth appearing on any magazine cover. the absurdity of the bodybuilding climate of today would be more aptly termed a dis-grace. i have no doubt in my mind that if i could have met emma newkirk i would have found her to be of more interest, by far, than any bodybuilder in todays current crop.
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by far. even if she were still living. especially if she were still living. if a person's picture were on a magazine cover, but it wasn't gracing it, but doing the opposite, what would right word be? "disgrace" doesn't have the right literary feel to it. i guess i'll have to go search the thesaurus.
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i can't think of what the adequate word would be for this. it would seem apparent that i am no literary giant. the steroidals on the covers are nauseating to many but that word would not fit in this context.
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i can't find an antonym, so i guess disgrace will have to do.
but knowing all these things, i should have known you were using the word sarcastically. my apologies.
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the ones that should apologize are the people that put such mongrels on the mag covers to begin with. those creatures can appeal to the young and set them off on a course of trying to duplicate their physiques. it is well known what has happened to many young people that have gone down that route.
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great post and great words from both of you.
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