Bøger af William Blaikie

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1884 Edition.

Athletics and Health is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

This 1879 gem is one of the first books ever written on the subject of training for strength. It was the first book that many of our physical culture pioneers ever read on the subject and was the book that motivated a movement. A must have in your physical culture library. See our vast collection at PhysicalCultureBooks.com

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.

Sound bodies for our boys and girls by William Blaikie. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1884 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.