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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"bodybuilding"”.
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Trans-corporeal bodybuilding: an exploration of the trans-corporeal relations between South African competitive male bodybuilders and their more-than-human world(s)
… unique community of men’s organised competitive bodybuilding has long displayed a peculiar humanocentrism his/torically ingrained by a subcultural reliance on patriarchal, Cartesian, and Western tropes which discursively encode competitive male bodybuilders as the prototypical Hu/Man(ist) …
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NATURALLY STRIATED MUSCLE: EXAMINING THE IDEOGRAPHIC CRYSTALLIZATION OF
… Deleuze and Guattari (1987) and the context of bodybuilding to work towards a theory of how ambiguous ideographs become "striated" or “crystallized.” Within this discussion I present instances where natural has been employed as a vehicle to cause harm, and I offer an advisement to rhetorical …
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Sports Center (relationship between architectural space and exercise performance)
… powerlifter for seven years, I have competed in bodybuilding. I am also planning to compete in powerlifting. So, I want to use my knowledge and experience of training to improve the exercise performance through design of the architectural space.
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Building a body for governance : embodying power in the shifting media images of Arnold Schwarzenegger
… his celebrity images across his career (i.e. bodybuilding, film and politics) I show how he has been depicted as a ‘body of governance’ in various media such as bodybuilding magazines, autobiography, film and the popular press. This longitudinal approach enables me to show how Schwarzenegger’s …
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Breaking the Muscular Mold: The Application of Homophily, Credibility, and Physical Attractiveness within Attitude and Perceived Behavioral Control towards Weight Lifting
… counterparts. The fitness industry, and the bodybuilding community in particular, presents an interesting issue where muscularity is an indicator of expertise and credibility, however, for female bodybuilders a muscular physique may diminish her perceived attractiveness and diminish such …
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Proximity of body & mind : urban gym as a heterotopic domain
… of heterogeneity and anonymity, a conventional Bodybuilding Gym opens up certain issues of emplacement of un/nder-spoken men's body and its close(t)ed placement in the society. While the rituals of entering and exiting the gym and 'building' the muscularity raise questions of men's reflected …
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Objective Measures and Insight Assessments of Muscle Dysmorphia
… affecting males who engage in weightlifting or bodybuilding. Individuals with this disorder are obsessed with the idea that their body is not sufficiently lean or muscular when compared to others and engage in several, risky behaviors (i.e., frequent exercise sessions, anabolic steroid use, …
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Comparison of Anthropometric Measures of Competitive Bodybuilders to Judges' Scores and a Comparison of Judges' Scores
… and Untrained. Twenty-nine male and nine female bodybuilding athletes consented to anthropometric and circumference measurements. The independent variables in this study were bodyfat, fat-free weight, and proportionality of muscle. Three groups of judges ranked male and female athletes in the …
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Comparison in muscle activity between the back squat, Romanian deadlift and barbell hip thrust during hip extension
… isolate the hip extensors for rehabilitation or bodybuilding purposes, the back squat still likely has greater application as a functional movement pattern that translates better to the sport setting.
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Inferring human personality from written media
… authored by 50 individuals who participated on a bodybuilding web forum (the Forum corpus). Also I administered a personality questionnaire following the protocol provided by the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP). For comparison across other populations I also obtained text corpora from …
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One Size Does Not Fit All: A Qualitative Study Exploring Unlicensed Weight Loss Drug Use In Women
… these drugs has been confined to male dominated bodybuilding communities, despite women experiencing increasing pressures to look a certain way. This doctoral research explores the use of UWL drugs by women, focusing specifically on attitudes and perceptions of UWL drug use, motivations for use, …
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Public health impact and implications of the use of anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) and associated drugs amongst the male general population.
… recent decades have seen AAS diffuse through bodybuilding and gym culture to an increasingly image conscious general population. This portfolio of research contributes to our understanding of this phenomenon in relation to our understanding of the extent and characteristics of AAS use, …
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A Comparison of Strength Improvement on Free Weights and the Universal Centurion
<p>This study was designed to investigate the comparative effectiveness of free weights and the Universal Centurion in improving muscular strength. The subjects were twenty-two male students enrolled at Loma Linda University in La Sierra, California. Subjects were divided into two experimental …
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Moderators of respiratory muscle function in health, exercise and disease
… compared to 117 ± 26 cm H<sub>2</sub>O in the bodybuilding control group. Although the use of AAS is associated with a variety of potentially hazardous consequences on cardiovascular and hepatic health, we demonstrated no adverse effect on respiratory (muscle) function, lung volumes or indices …