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Title: Keeping Fit All the Way

Author: Walter Camp

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KEEPING FIT ALL THE WAY

How to Obtain and Maintain Health, Strength and Efficiency

by

WALTER CAMP

Illustrated with Many Photographs Taken under the Direction of the
Author

1919

[Illustration: THREE PIONEERS IN SENIOR SERVICE WORK

Left to right: Colonel Ullman, President, Chamber of Commerce, New
Haven, Connecticut; Ex-President William H. Taft, and Walter Camp.]

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
AN AMERICAN CITIZEN'S CREED
PART I. KEEPING FIT ALL THE WAY
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI

PART II. THE DAILY DOZEN
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII

INTRODUCTION

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 astonishingly 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.

AN AMERIC