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02878aam a2200313Ii 4500 001 8133F9487E0411EE85718D4F22ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231108010026 008 220414t20232022nyuaf b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1526662566 020 $a 9781526662569 020 $a 9781620402306 020 $a 1620402300 035 $a (OCoLC)1310768609 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d MNG $d SILO 100 1 $a Hayes, Bill, $d 1961- $e author. 245 10 $a Sweat : $b a history of exercise / $c Bill Hayes. 264 1 $a New York : $b Bloomsbury Publishing, $c 2023. 300 $a 246 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (black and white) ; $c 21 cm 500 $a "A New Yorker Best Book of the year. An Esquire Best Nonfiction Book of the year." --Front cover. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-238) and index. 505 00 $t On the Road to Olympia $t Finding Mercuriale -- $t Gym Rats -- $t No Athlete -- $t A Boxer's Diary -- $t Library Rats -- $t A Duel -- $t On the Nature of Running -- $t Mercuriale in Kansas -- $t The Art of Swimming -- $t Inside the Archive -- $t A Refutation of Those Who Think Everyone Should Exercise -- $t The Rest Principle -- $t Esercizio a Roma -- $t A Physical Education -- $t A Practice -- $t The Proof -- $t The Seventies -- $t The Men in the Mirrors -- $t A Break -- $t On the Road to Olympia 520 $a Exercise is our modern obsession, and we have the fancy workout gear and fads from HIIT to spin classes to hot yoga to prove it. Exercise-a form of physical activity distinct from sports, play, or athletics-was an ancient obsession, too, but as a chapter in human history, it's been largely overlooked. In Sweat, Bill Hayes runs, jogs, swims, spins, walks, bikes, boxes, lifts, sweats, and downward-dogs his way through the origins of different forms of exercise, chronicling how they have evolved over time, dissecting the dynamics of human movement.Hippocrates, Plato, Galen, Susan B. Anthony, Jack LaLanne, and Jane Fonda, among many others, make appearances in Sweat, but chief among the historical figures is Girolamo Mercuriale, a Renaissance-era Italian physician who aimed singlehandedly to revive the ancient Greek "art of exercising" through his 1569 book De arte gymnastica. Though largely forgotten over the past five centuries, Mercuriale and his illustrated treatise were pioneering, and are brought back to life in the pages of Sweat. Hayes ties his own personal experience-and ours-to the cultural and scientific history of exercise, from ancient times to the present day, giving us a new way to understand its place in our lives in the 21st century. -- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Exercise $x History. 650 0 $a Human body. 941 $a 1 952 $l OPAX566 $d 20231108010342.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8133F9487E0411EE85718D4F22ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b UIRInitiate Another SILO Locator Search