Keeping Fit All the Way / How to Obtain and Maintain Health, Strength and Efficiency

by Walter Camp

MODERN PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Bearing all these points in mind, we test out the setting-up exercises so that we may obtain a set answering the following requirements:

First—Reduce them to a period of eight or ten minutes once or twice a day.

Second—Make them simple for leaders to learn.

Third—Eliminate movements that, on account of the daily work, are unnecessary.

Fourth—Render them more difficult of evasion or shirking.

Fifth—Direct them specifically in the line of increased resisting power, endurance, and suppleness.

Sixth—Make them of value in establishing co-ordination, muscular control, and more prompt response to command.

Seventh—Equalize them for use by both heavy and light men.

Eighth—Select the exercises in such a way that the set may be of nearly equal value to both enlisted men and officers, as well as to executives behind the lines.