Physical culture is a health and strength training movement that originated during the 19th century.
During the mid-late 20th century, physical culture has become a largely outmoded concept in most English-speaking countries, and exercise now occurs in the context of physical education and fitness training.
Read more about Physical Culture: Origins, Contemporary Interest in 19th Century Physical Culture
Famous quotes containing the words physical and/or culture:
“Man’s characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body’s yoke, but is subject to that of society.”
—Emile Durkheim (1858–1917)
“... good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)