Citations:bodybuilding

English citations of bodybuilding

Noun: sport in which the aesthetics of muscular development is the basis for competition

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• 1929, Clement Wood, Bernarr Macfadden; A Study in Success, page 52

  The city would have furnished systematic bodybuilding in a gymnasium, and a far more sensible diet.

• 1939, Henry Robinson Luce, Time (Jan. 30), page 66

  Jonathan Orestes Jones was a puny lad, but he was smart enough to get a job as usher at Roxy's Theatre, and do bodybuilding exercises on the side. Result : he became a Grade-A physical specimen, soon headed his own body-building establishment […]

• 1951, Albert Ellis, The Folklore of Sex, page 173

  […] popular sport of weight lifting or bodybuilding. Bodybuilding, it may surprise some readers to know, has thousands upon thousands of adherents in the United States and boasts a national organization as well as several flourishing periodicals […]

• 1960, Joel W. Carter, How to Make Athletic Equipment, page 306

  This chapter is concerned only with equipment which is used mainly for bodybuilding and conditioning, and which has no direct affiliation with a particular sport.

• 1964 "Muscles are his business", Ebony (Dec.) 20 (2): 148

  Stonewall, considered skinny as a youth, is proof of value of exercise, proper diet. Oldest of nine children, he was encouraged by dad, a physical fitness buff who kept bodybuilding equipment at home.

• 1974, Charles Gaines & George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, page 7.

  Like those activities, bodybuilding is an obsession, a living (for a few), and a way of life for the people involved in it—a subculture, in a word, with its own values, aesthetics and vocabulary.

• 1983, Joe Weider, The Weider System of Bodybuilding, page 4.

  Alternating off-season and precontest cycles in bodybuilding over a period of years will result in the relatively quick development of a championship physique.

• 1988, Steve Holman, "Christian Conquers Columbus", Ironman 47 (6): 28-34.

  As usual, the biggest and best in bodybuilding are in Columbus.

• 1997, John Romano, Muscle Meals, page 14.

  Living in Venice, California and training at the Mecca of bodybuilding, Gold's Gym, I've seen some of the world's most dedicated and hard-training athletes.

• 2008, Carlon M. Colker, Extreme Muscle Enhancement, 3rd edition, page 13-14.

  We used to think bodybuilding was all about anabolism by way of turning on testosterone and growth hormone secretion.

Noun: (archaic) work done to construct or repair the body of an automobile

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• 1921, "Parliamentary Debates (New Zealand)", page 843

  A number of the men now engaged in bodybuilding were formerly engaged in coachbuilding,