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George Barker Windship

American physician

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  • Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) gymnasium
    In physical culture: Humanism and national revivals

    But the true pioneer was George Barker Windship, a Harvard Medical School graduate (1857) who incorporated apparatus and heavy-lifting movements into an exercise regimen designed to promote the ideal of “Strength is health.” His death from a massive stroke at age 42, however, hardly promoted the cause.

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