The sport's name is Physical Culture, also known as 'Physie'. It's celebrating its 125th year and, thanks to social media, it's attracting new fans.

Physical culture began its life in Hobart in 1892 as "a business to help correct curvature of the spine and respiratory problems", according to Jackie Rawlings, joint managing-director at BJP Physie.

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The clean-cut, well-groomed children and grandmothers who inhabit the world of "Physie" bear few comparisons to Lyndal Irons' last photographic subject.

Physical Culture is a uniquely Australian form of exercise. While other countries such as China have taken to it, it's in Australia that Physie girls flock to the competitive sport.

HAVING three generations of one family competing at Randwick Physical Culture Club is testament to the unique nature of the sport as one for all ages.

The Bjelke-Petersen (BJP) School of Physical Culture - Goulburn Club, will be hosting its inaugural friendly interclub competition from Saturday to Sunday, August 6-7 at the Veolia Arena.

Lakeview Physical Culture Club is coming up on a year in its own space and is offering an open day for those in the Illawarra interested in trying physie.