Keeping Fit All the Way

by Walter Camp, 1st World Library (Editor)

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The number of men who "keep fit" in this country has been surprisingly few, while the number of those who have made good resolutions about keeping fit is astoni-shingly large. Reflection upon this fact has convinced the writer that the reason for this state of affairs lies partly in our inability to visualize the conditions and our failure to impress upon all men the necessity of physical exercise. Still more, however, does it rest upon our failure to make a scientific study of reducing all the variety of proposals to some standard of exceeding simplicity. Present systems have not produced results, no matter what the reason. Hence this book with its review of the situation and its final practical conclusions.

132 pages, Paperback

First published September 20, 2005

About the author

Walter Chauncey Camp (1859 - 1925) was an American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football". Among a long list of inventions, he created the sport's line of scrimmage and the system of downs.

Reviews

[David Roberts · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book I read to research this post was Keeping Fit All The Way by Walter Camp which is a very good book which I downloaded from kindle. This book was out of copyright and free on kindle and apparently Walter used to be President of the Chamber Of Commerce in America. There is no cutting edge technology in this book but it's well written and the information is good. Apparently despite America producing many top athletes and other top sports people, over 50% who leave school aren't fit enough to join the military. I think that figure is probably optimistic. Anyway he argues that the military should take on people who aren't fit and work on getting them fit. He writes about many of the fitness tasks they do in the military so you can work at getting your fitness up to this level. One task is walking 1 1/2 miles with 8 pound iron bars held in the middle. In the army one soldier would carry these outwards and another would carry them back. Apparently at the time was published a recent fad was live bacillus milk and of course is the healthy bacteria in this milk helps improve the population of healthy bacteria in your gut. This stuff is still being sold in things like Actimel but he argues the nutrients in the milk are probably more useful than the bacteria although he does think there is definitely something in it. With your fitness you are probably better off doing a little exercise frequently rather than doing loads something like once a week. I agree with him about that. This book is around a 100 pages so isn't all that long and much of it is an exercise plan. It's an enjoyable book nonetheless and very interesting.