Treloar's Science of Muscular Development: A Textbook of Physical Training

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TRELOAR'S SCIENCE OF MUSCULAR DEVELOPMENT: A TEXTBOOK OF PHYSICAL TRAINING, Albert Treloar, assisted by Miss Edna Tempest, hardcover, illustrated (B/W photos and charts), 1904. BOOK CONDITION: fair. The text block and illustrations are in fine condition with no tears, dog-ears, and just one page with a pencil mark and two stars glued by the title. The pages are age-toned. There is no bookplate or signature of a prior owner. Not a library book or remainder. The brown cloth boards are in only fair condition (intact but scuffed and stained, bumped corners, edgewear, faded spine with bumped top and bottom). 9 x 6 ½, 210 pages, 16 ounces XX [Wikipedia] Al Treloar (May 11, 1873 ? February 28, 1960) was an American bodybuilder, athletic trainer, author and artist's model. He won the first international bodybuilding contest in 1904, appeared in early silent films, and toured the United States as a vaudeville performer. He was physical director at the Los Angeles Athletic Club from 1907 to 1949. Chicago hosted the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, a six-month world's fair that attracted tens of millions of visitors. Showman Florenz Ziegfeld created an evening vaudeville production at the city's Trocadero nightclub, centered around German bodybuilder Eugen Sandow. Twenty-year-old bodybuilder Treloar was hired to be one of Sandow's onstage assistants. The production opened on August 1, 1893 and consisted of a series of athletic acts?acrobats, cyclists, trapeze artists?interspersed with musical interludes At the end of the Fair, Treloar toured with the production to the West Coast and elsewhere. Treloar enrolled in the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard College in 1894. He studied independently under lecturer Dudley Allen Sargent, director of the Hemenway Gymnasium, and perhaps the foremost American expert on physical education. He set University strength records ?lifting 1,150 lbs. with his legs, and 783 lbs. with his back. He met his future wife while at Harvard. Georgia Edna Knowlton (1875?1946) was two years younger, originally from Maine, and also a fitness enthusiast. She was his partner in multiple areas?under the pseudonym "Edna Tempest," she appeared as a fitness model on the cover of Physical Culture magazine, she was his onstage assistant in their vaudeville act, and she contributed a chapter to his book on muscular development. Treloar graduated from Harvard in 1896 with a special degree in physical education. He continued his career as a trainer at an athletic club in St. Paul, Minnesota, and later offered private lessons in New York City. Bernarr Macfadden, editor and publisher of Physical Culture magazine, organized the first international bodybuilding contest in America. The contest was "international" in that it included bodybuilders from both the United States and England, but all the contestants were among the 100,000 readers of Physical Culture. Hugh Jennings (Treloar) was judged to be the "Most Perfectly Developed Man" and Emma Newkirk to be the "Most Perfectly Developed Woman." Treloar was the author of a major book on bodybuilding: Treloar's Science of Muscular Development: A Textbook of Physical Training (1904), to which his wife (as Edna Tempest) contributed a chapter for women. Macfadden published the book, and illustrated it with photographs of Treloar and Tempest demonstrating the exercises. Seller Inventory # 001820

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