Keeping Fit All the Way / How to Obtain and Maintain Health, Strength and Efficiency
by Walter Camp
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- KEEPING FIT ALL THE WAY
- How to Obtain and Maintain Health, Strength and Efficiency BY WALTER CAMP
- THREE PIONEERS IN SENIOR SERVICE WORK
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- AN AMERICAN CITIZEN'S CREED
- Part I
- KEEPING FIT ALL THE WAY
- CHAPTER I
- NATURE A HARD MISTRESS
- THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
- AS THE YEARS GO ON
- THE REMEDY
- WHAT WORRY DOES
- AMERICANITIS
- THE PRICE OF SUCCESS
- 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
- CHAPTER III
- THE SPIRIT OF YOUTH
- ECONOMIC LOSSES
- WARNING EXAMPLES
- PHYSICAL FITNESS A VITAL FACT
- 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
- 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:
- 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
- Part II
- THE DAILY DOZEN
- 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
- 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
- CHAPTER IX
- A SHORTHAND METHOD
- HEALTH MAXIMS
- CHAPTER X
- FIG. 1.—HANDS
- GROUP I
- FIG. 2.—HIPS
- FIG. 3.—HEAD
- HEALTH MAXIMS
- 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:
- 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
- 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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