How to Get Strong and How to Stay So - William Blaikie

1884. Blaikie hopes this volume will give the reader a nudge to take better care of his body, and so of his health, and then to point out one way to do it. Contents: Do We Inherit Shapely Bodies?; Half-Built Boys; Will Daily Physical Exercise for Girls Pay?; Is it Too Late for Women to Begin?; Why Men Should Exercise Daily; Home Gymnasiums; The School, the True Place for Children's Physical Culture; What a Gymnasium might Be and Do; Some Results of Brief Systematic Exercise; Work for the Fleshy, the Thin, the Old; Half-trained Firemen and Police; Special Exercise for any Given Muscles; and What Exercise to Take Daily.