The Importance of Weight Lifting in the Second World War

After the first world war there is an emergence of new bodily ideals. One of these comes from weight lifting and celebrity body builders like eugene sandau. This has been read as a kind of proto facis attention to, you know, the kind of ubermanch ideal of white western masculinity. But i really think it's about more democratic form of leisure and physical culture becoming possible in the inter war period rit.