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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 theAuthor

1919

THREE PIONEERS IN SENIOR SERVICE WORK

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

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 surprisinglyfew, while the number of those who have made good resolutions aboutkeeping fit is astonishingly large. Reflection upon this fact hasconvinced the writer that the reason for this state of affairs liespartly in our inability to visualize the conditions and our failure toimpress upon all men the necessity of physical exercise. Still more,however, does it rest upon our failure to make a scientific study ofreducing all the variety of proposals to some standard of exceedingsimplicity. Present systems have not produced results, no matter whatthe reason. Hence this book with its review of the situation and itsfinal practical conclusions.

AN AMERICAN CITIZEN'S CREED

I believe that a nation should be made up of people who individuallypossess clean, strong bodies and pure minds; who have respect for theirown rights and the rights of others and possess the courage and strengthto redress wrongs; and, finally, in whom self-consciousness issufficiently powerful to preserve these qualities. I believe ineducation, patriotism, justice, and loyalty. I believe i

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