{"id":24,"date":"2019-12-08T22:24:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T02:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/abigail-george\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2019-12-09T10:56:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T14:56:08","slug":"chapter-6","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/abigail-george\/chapter-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Ch. 6 &#8211; &#8220;Training for the Mirror&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kunitz explores the dissonance between aesthetics and performance in chapter 6, establishing in the first few pages that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">looking<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> fit does not always translate to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">being<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> fit. He explores the advent of the Dudley Allen Sargent\u2019s variable-resistance pulley-weight machine which revolutionized the way people worked out. This invention welcomed industrialization into the gym as users believed they were exercising more efficiently by targeting specific muscle groups while still exerting less work. Sargent measured his students\u2019 muscles before and after using his machines, suggesting a quantifiable ideal. Inherent in Sargent\u2019s experiment is a priority on cosmetics rather than performance which would permeate society at this time, ultimately creating a culture-wide understanding of the \u201cperfect physique\u201d which would manifest in the rise of bodybuilding. This attitude of working out for a physical ideal, Kunitz argues, made the body and \u201clooking good\u201d a marketable product, and thus allowed exercise to be sold as a weight-loss trick rather than a requirement of good health. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kunitz explores the dissonance between aesthetics and performance in chapter 6, establishing in the first few pages that looking fit does not always translate to being fit. He explores the advent of the Dudley Allen Sargent\u2019s variable-resistance pulley-weight machine which revolutionized the way people worked out. This invention welcomed industrialization into the gym as users &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/abigail-george\/chapter-6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ch. 6 &#8211; &#8220;Training for the Mirror&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3561,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/abigail-george\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/abigail-george\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/abigail-george\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/abigail-george\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3561"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/abigail-george\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/abigail-george\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/abigail-george\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/abigail-george\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}