Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 13574-h.htm or 13574-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/3/5/7/13574/13574-h/13574-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/3/5/7/13574/13574-h.zip) 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 AMERICAN CITIZEN'S CREED I believe that a nation should be made up of people who individually possess clean, strong bodies and pure minds; who have respect for their own rights and the rights of others and possess the courage and strength to redress wrongs; and, finally, in whom self-consciousness is sufficiently powerful to preserve these qualities. I believe in education, patriotism, justice, and loyalty. I believe in civil and religious liberty and in freedom of thought and speech. I believe in chivalry that protects the weak and preserves veneration and love for parents, and in the physical strength that makes that chivalry effective. I believe in that clear thinking and straight speaking which conquers envy, slander, and fear. I believe in the trilogy of faith, hope, and charity, and in the dignity of labor; finally, I believe that through these and education true democracy may come to the world. Part I KEEPING FIT ALL THE WAY CHAPTER I It has long been a startling fact regarding Americans that so soon as their school-days were over they largely abandoned athletics; until, in middle life, finding that they had been controverting the laws of nature, they took up golf or some other form of physical exercise.