Vitality Supreme - Softcover

MacFadden, Bernarr

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1466380462 ISBN 13: 9781466380462

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011

Synopsis

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Vitality Supreme by Bernarr MacFadden may have been his best book (and he wrote many). It is one of his most well-known. Many of his other books go into one specific area of health, for instance the eyes, or nerves, but this is an all around health book. So anyone looking to see what Bernarr MacFadden is all about would be wise to start here.

Let me tell you a little bit about Bernarr MacFadden. He was called the Father of Physical Culture, for the huge influence he had on it. At the same time he was quite extreme. While in certain cases he may have gone overboard (like pushing his family to follow all his ideals, to the point where they all hated him for it) he also was a pioneer and had many great ideas. The best part is you can pick and choose, and experiment to find what you can take from him and incorporate into your own life. Here is a list of the chapters:

VITALITY–WHAT IS IT?
FUNCTIONAL ACTIVITY-THE SECRET OF POWER
THE PROPER BODILY POSTURE
STIMULATING THE SOURCE OF STAMINA AND VITALITY
STRAIGHTENING AND STRENGTHENING THE SPINE
CLEANSING AND STIMULATING THE ALIMENTARY CANAL
EXERCISE FOR VITALITY BUILDING
HOW TO BREATHE
OUTDOOR LIFE
STRENGTHENING THE STOMACH
PRESERVING THE TEETH
HOW TO EAT
WHAT TO EAT
FOODS IN THE CURE OF CONSTIPATION
PRESSURE MOVEMENTS FOR BUILDING INNER STRENGTH
BLOOD PURIFICATION
HINTS ON BATHING
SOME FACTS ABOUT CLOTHING
SUGGESTIONS ABOUT SLEEP
MIND–THE MASTER-FORCE FOR HEALT
H OR DISEASE
THE LAUGH CURE
SINGING-THE GREAT TONIC
THE DAILY REGIMEN

You can't read this book without picking up new tips you can start using right away to improve your health. Bernarr Macfadden wrote countless other books, though this is the one to get started with.

About this title

From the Author:

"Force is supreme – the king of all mankind. And it is force that stands back of efficiency, for efficiency, first of all, means power. It comes from power, and power either comes directly from inheritance or it is developed by an intelligent application of the laws that control the culture of the physique."

"Why not throb with superior vitality! Why not possess the physical energy of a young lion? For then you will compel success. You will stand like a wall if need be, or rush with the force of a charging bison towards the desired achievements. This book sends forth a message of paramount importance to those who need added efficiency. Adherence to the principles laid down herein will add to the characteristics that insure splendid achievements. Make your body splendid, your mind supreme; for then you become your real self, you possess all your attainable powers."

About the Author:

From Biography.com - "Macfadden, often dubbed the 'father of physical culture,' grew up in poverty in the eastern Ozark Mountains of Missouri. After his parents died young from ill health when he was 11, he spent his life fighting early death and overcoming physical challenges. Macfadden thrived on hard work and outdoor living. Inspired by the Police Gazette, he took up boxing, wrestling, and gymnastics to harden his body and rejected alcohol, tobacco, and meat to preserve his health. Always energetic, the irrepressible Macfadden often worked several jobs and frequently wrestled professionally in circuses. In 1897 Macfadden traveled to England where he collaborated with bicycle entrepreneur Hopton Hadley to market the wall-mounted muscle developer that he had created. With Hadley's support, Macfadden founded an early muscle magazine, Physical Development (1898), and later an even more successful American version, Physical Culture (1899). Macfadden also toured widely to promote his message of vigorous physical exercise and to preach about the dangers of alcohol, drugs, gluttony, corsets, prudishness, tea, coffee, and white bread. Shocking to Victorian sentiments was his advocacy of a diet consisting of carrots, beans, nuts, and raw eggs, sleeping on the floor, and nudity and his zeal for 'physical love.' To promote such 'love,' he encouraged openness about sexual matters and invented a glass cylinder device attached to a vacuum pump to enlarge men's penises. To exemplify fitness, he walked five miles daily to his office in Manhattan in bare feet while carrying a 40-pound bag of sand. In 1903 Macfadden staged the first physique (bodybuilding) contest in America and in similar competitions in 1921 and 1922 fostered the emergence of physical culture's greatest icon, Charles Atlas."

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1466380462
• ISBN 13: 9781466380462
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 194