Keeping Fit All the Way

About this eBook

Author

Camp, Walter, 1859-1925

Title

Keeping fit all the way : how to obtain and maintain health, strength and efficiency

Credits

E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

RA: Medicine: Public aspects of medicine

Subject

Physical education and training

Category

Text

eBook-No.

13574

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13574

Release Date

October 1, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.KEEPING FIT ALL THE WAY
2. 2.BY WALTER CAMP — THREE PIONEERS IN SENIOR SERVICE WORK
3. 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS
4. 4.INTRODUCTION
5. 5.AN AMERICAN CITIZEN'S CREED
6. 6.Part I
7. 7.KEEPING FIT ALL THE WAY
8. 8.CHAPTER I — NATURE A HARD MISTRESS — THE VICIOUS CIRCLE — AS THE YEARS GO ON — THE REMEDY — WHAT WORRY DOES — AMERICANITIS — THE PRICE OF SUCCESS
9. 9.CHAPTER II — THE VALUE OF EXERCISE — PREPARING FOR EMERGENCIES — FROM A FAMOUS PHYSICIAN'S NOTE-BOOK — THE ROAD TO EFFICIENCY — A WINTER VACATION — THE GOSPEL OF FRESH AIR — UNLEARNED LESSONS
10. 10.CHAPTER III — THE SPIRIT OF YOUTH — ECONOMIC LOSSES — WARNING EXAMPLES — PHYSICAL FITNESS A VITAL FACT
11. 11.CHAPTER IV — THE SENIOR SERVICE CORPS — INITIAL HIKE OF FIRST SENIOR SERVICE CORPS — HIKE OF A SENIOR CORPS — THESE MEN, ALTHOUGH OVER FORTY-FIVE YEARS OF AGE, MARCHED FOR OVER FOUR HOURS WITHOUT DISCOMFORT — THE BASIC IDEA — COMMUNITY PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT — WALTER CAMP, PRESIDENT, AND JOSEPH C. JOHNSON, SECRETARY, OF THE ORIGINAL SENIOR SERVICE CORPS ESTABLISHED IN NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, IN THE SPRING OF 1917 — SETTING-UP WORK OF A COMPANY OF ONE HUNDRED — DOCTOR ANDERSON LEADING A GROUP IN THE YALE GYMNASIUM — AN OUTLINE OF THE SYSTEM — INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP ACTION — EFFECT OF THIRTY DAYS OF TRAINING UPON A COMPANY. THESE MEN ARE CARRYING IRON BARS WEIGHING NINE POUNDS EACH — PRACTISING AND MARCHING WITH IRON BARS WEIGHING NINE POUNDS EACH — WORK AND HYGIENE — "COUNTING OFF" A COMPANY IN THE YALE GYMNASIUM — "HEAD" POSITION. GROUP OF ONE HUNDRED, SENIOR CORPS> — WATER, WALKING, AND FOOD — RESULT OF SIXTY DAYS' TRAINING IN CARRIAGE. THE TWO MEN IN FRONT WEIGH 265 AND 230 POUNDS RESPECTIVELY — LOOK AND DETERMINATION ON FIRST DAY'S MARCH, DURING WHICH THE MEN CARRIED IRON BARS WEIGHING NINE POUNDS EACH — A MODEL DIETARY — HYGIENIC CURE-ALLS — FRESH AIR — THE VALUE OF DEEP BREATHING
12. 12.CHAPTER V — THE ORGANIZATION — TO THE LEADER — GIVING THE COMMANDS — EYES RIGHT! — STEPS AND MARCHINGS — THE SETTING-UP EXERCISES — FIG. 1.—ATTENTION — FIG. 2.—ARMS CROSS — FIG. 3.—ARMS STRETCH — FIG. 4.—HIPS FIRM — FIG. 5.—NECK FIRM — Fig. 6—INCORRECT POSITION OF SHOULDERS IN NECK FIRM — FIG. 7.—ARMS REACH — FIG. 8.—ARMS BEND — FIG. 9.—BALANCING — FIG. 10.—STRIDE, FIRST POSITION — FIG. 11.—STRIDE, FINAL POSITION — GROUP EXERCISES — FIG. 12.—"GRIND," SHOWING HOW THE PALMS OF HANDS ARE TURNED UP IN THIS EXERCISE — FIG. 13.—FLING. CORRECT POSITION — FIG. 14.—WAVE. EXCELLENT DEMONSTRATION — WEAVE—Common fault of not keeping shoulders and arms in line. — FIG. 15.—"CURL" POSITION. EXCELLENT DEMONSTRATION EXCEPT THAT THE ELBOWS SHOULD BE THROWN BACK — FIG. 16.—"CROUCH," SHOWING ERECT POSITION OF BODY AND BACK — FIG. 17.—"WING" POSITION, ALSO BACK POSITION OF "CURL." FACE SHOULD, HOWEVER, BE TURNED UP — FOOTNOTES:
13. 13.CHAPTER VI — A TEN-DAY PROGRAM — CORRECT POSITION OF NECK AND SHOULDERS IN ALL REACH EXERCISES — STOOPING. INCORRECT POSITION, LETTING THE HEAD FALL FORWARD — Letting shoulders come forward; common fault — Incorrect position of neck and shoulders; very common fault — STOOPING. INCORRECT POSITION, LETTING THE BACK BOW UP AND SHOULDERS DROP — EFFECT OF THESE EXERCISES, SHOWING EVEN MUSCULAR DEVELOPMENT
14. 14.Part II — THE DAILY DOZEN
15. 15.CHAPTER VII — A MODERN PHYSICAL SYSTEM — OUT-OF-DATE IDEAS — INCORRECT POSITION, SHOWING HOW MOST MEN SLACK IN SWEDISH EXERCISES BY LETTING THE BACK BEND — OLD-TIME FALLACIES — A PERFECTLY USELESS STUNT — PENNY-WISE AND POUND-FOOLISH — NATURE'S PROCESS — TIME THE GREAT ELEMENT — ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES — MODERN PHYSICAL EDUCATION — SLACKING IN SETTING-UP DRILLS — LEG-RAISING — SIDE-FALLING. THIS ARM AND BODY WORK PLACES A HANDICAP ON A HEAVY MAN — A CALL FOR WORK THAT WILL COUNT — THE BIG PROBLEM — ARM AND BODY WORK. THIS EXERCISE PLACES A HANDICAP ON A HEAVY MAN — ALTERNATE LEG-RAISING — THE NEED FOR A CONDENSED SYSTEM OF CALISTHENICS — EXTRA LEG WORK. THIS EXERCISE PLACES A HANDICAP ON A HEAVY MAN — A REASONABLE PROGRAM
16. 16.CHAPTER VIII — WORRY AND FEAR — THE FATAL MISTAKE — ARCH WORK — SOMETHING OUT OF A BOTTLE — CONSERVING THE PRESIDENT'S HEALTH — SPRING WORK. — FLEXING EXERCISES — THE UNPLEASANT SELF-AWAKENING — ARM AND BODY WORK. THIS PLACES A HANDICAP ON A HEAVY MAN. — HIGH-STRIDE STOOP FALLING. — WHY MEN DON'T KEEP FIT
17. 17.CHAPTER IX — A SHORTHAND METHOD — HEALTH MAXIMS
18. 18.CHAPTER X — FIG. 1.—HANDS — GROUP I — FIG. 2.—HIPS — FIG. 3.—HEAD — HEALTH MAXIMS
19. 19.CHAPTER XI — GROUP II — FIG. 4.—GRIND — FIG. 5.—GRATE — FIG. 5 A.—SECOND POSITION OF GRATE — FIG. 6.—GRASP — HEALTH MAXIMS — FIG. 6 A.—FORWARD POSITION OF GRASP — FOOTNOTES:
20. 20.CHAPTER XII — GROUP III — FIG. 7 CRAWL, FIRST POSITION — CRAWL — FIG. 8 CRAWL, SECOND POSITION — FIG. 9. — CURL — CRAWL. AT THIS POINT THE RAISED ARM SHOULD BE CURVED OVER THE HEAD — FIG. 10.—CROUCH — HEALTH MAXIMS
21. 21.CHAPTER XIII — GROUP IV — FIG. 11.—CORRECT POSITION, START OF WAVE — FIG. 12.—WAVE — FIG. 13.—WEAVE, FIRST POSITION — FIG. 14.—WEAVE — FIG. 15.—WING — FIG. 15A.—END OF WING — HEALTH MAXIMS

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