WEIGHTLIFTING: [translated]

by Matthew Lynch

Its a good thing this dude is has been dead for a century, or he'd kick all of our arses. Well, probably not, as the primitive training methods of 1905 left something to be desired, and the closest thing you could get to a PED was likely some crude and useless tonic like baboon testicle extract purchased from your local apothecary. Still, the fundamentals of power lifting and bodybuilding are hidden away in the quaint and antiquated details of this old-timey manual on getting ripped for fun, profit, and of course the ladies, who weren't always taken in by just any Jean, Claude, or Pierre with a great mustache and an apartment on the Ile de Cite. They wanted a Hercules just stepped from a canvas in the Louvre to go sea-bathing with at Trouville, a brute who would never stand for having coarse gravel kicked in his face. And not that 1905 strongman can be you! For entertainment purposes only.

46 pages, Paperback

Published May 1, 2018

About the author

Dr. Lynch is a Chair and Associate Professor of Education at Langston University, a blogger for the Huffington Post, a columnist for Education News, and a education advice columnist for Education World. He spent seven years as a K-12 teacher, which gave him an intimate view of the impediments that hinder genuine education reform. He has focused the second stage of his career on researching topics related to educational policy, school leadership and education reform, particularly in the urban learning environment.

Dr. Lynch’s scholarship is intended to make a redoubtable, theoretically and empirically based argument that genuine school reform and the closing of the well-chronicled achievement gap are possible. His research and commentaries have been featured in publications throughout the United States and have centered on issues ranging from school reform to politics. Throughout his career, he has been interested in developing collaborative enterprises that move the field of education forward.

Dr. Lynch is the author of It’s Time for a Change: School Reform for the Next Decade, the newly released A Guide to Effective School Leadership Theories, and the forthcoming The Call to Teach: An Introduction to Education (Pearson, 2014). In addition, he is the editor of the following projects; Before Obama: A Reappraisal of Black Reconstruction Era Politicians (Praeger, November 30, 2012), the book series Studies in Anti-Intellectualism and Academic Disengagement (Rowman & Littlefield), and a forthcoming book entitled Reimagining School Reform and Innovation (Sense, 2013). For more information, please visit his website at www.drmattlynch.com.