Georges Hébert: "Be strong to be useful."
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 8:07 pm
I was reading about parkours (=freerunning) in the New Yorker this weekend, and was interested to read about George Hébert, a turn of the century French "sports theorist" (doesn't that sound so much better than "fitness guru?").
His most famous saying was, "Etre fort pour être utile" - "Be strong to be useful," which as far as I can tell, was the first "sports theory" expression of the idea of functional fitness. So I guess, in a purely linguistic sense at least, shovelglove's "useful" movements takes precedent over "functional" fitness.
New Yorker arcticle:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007 ... _wilkinson
Wikkipedia entry for George Hebert:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Hébert
Reinhard
His most famous saying was, "Etre fort pour être utile" - "Be strong to be useful," which as far as I can tell, was the first "sports theory" expression of the idea of functional fitness. So I guess, in a purely linguistic sense at least, shovelglove's "useful" movements takes precedent over "functional" fitness.
New Yorker arcticle:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007 ... _wilkinson
Wikkipedia entry for George Hebert:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Hébert
Reinhard