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Alternative form of bodybuilder (“one who builds a muscular physique”)..
An excellent example, showing the possibility of the development of the muscles of the back, which are commonly neglected, is that of Professor Robert J. Roberts, the noted body-builder now connected with the gymnasium of the Young Men’s Christian Association of Boston.
The Gymnasium prospectus may have reached you before this meets your eye; at all events we hope you will give it a careful perusal, and mentally resolve to join the host of body-builders that is growing in numbers every day.
Leonard DaLuz, a 26-year-old muscular body-builder, was crowned “Mr. Rock Hill” to highlight the 1961 Rock Hill Weight Lifting Championships and physique contest Saturday night at the Stadium Hut.
AMONG the muscular body-builders in the first-floor Newcastle gymnasium, Neville Jason, dark, slim and smelling just slightly of after shave, looked very out of place.
Compare him to Christopher Reeve of the modern Superman movies, who was sculpted like a body-builder.
Do not imagine I am not in sympathy with the game. I am, most heartily, with this and most out-of-door sports. I am only combating a prevailing belief that they are beneficial body-builders.
It is not a drug; it is a pre-digested food, and is absorbed at once. Strength, plumpness and digestive tone follows its use immediately. It is a body-builder, pleasant to the taste, and soon enables you to digest any food.
“The office of the gymnasium,” says Mr. Richards in the September Century, “is two-fold, educational and sanative. It is not primarily a place of exploits nor designed for teaching dangerous feats of skill. Its chief end is educational. The term, ‘body-builder,’ largely employed by the best instructors, well describes its main purpose.”
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Body-builder means Alternative form of bodybuilder (“one who builds a muscular physique”)..
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An excellent example, showing the possibility of the development of the muscles of the back, which are commonly neglected, is that of Professor Robert J. Roberts, the noted body-builder now connected with the gymnasium of the Young Men’s Christian Association of Boston.
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