This paper investigates the proliferation of discussions surrounding the male body in Istanbul after the 1908 constitutional revolution. One of the most important spaces in which these discussions took place was the burgeoning sporting press. The revolution created a context in which magazines and newspapers began to print much more frequently images of and articles about the beautiful and strong male body, as well as the importance of using sports to shape and mold this body. Like most political, social, and cultural transformations that (re)shaped life in Istanbul and other urban centers of the time, the increased proliferation of such discussions were not confined to a single ethnic community. Thus, this paper seeks to trace the ways in which members of the Armenian, Greek, Jewish, and Turkish communities of the late Ottoman Empire all participated in the production of, and were affected by, new conceptualizations of the body, masculinity, and beauty. The argument advanced is based on multi-lingual archival research, and is part of a broader doctoral dissertation project, which examines how modern sports and physical education in Istanbul served as a space in which new understandings of the body, self, community, masculinity, morality, nationalism, and militarization intersected with one another during the late imperial and early republican periods. This paper seeks to accomplish two goals: first, to trace the commonality of different iterations of the beautiful, strong, and healthy male body across both time and communities; and second, to demonstrate that various people throughout the city and across communities treated and envisioned sports and physical education as a necessary means for the rehabilitation of the individual and the constitution of the larger community. The paper will draw from a diverse array of sources in Ottoman, Turkish, Armenian, French, German, and English from a number of private and public archives. These sources include journals, newspapers, memoirs, personal photographs, as well as oral histories.