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Contents
Chapter Page
I. Do We Inherit Shapely Bodies? 1
II. Half-built Boys 12
III. Will Daily Physical Exercise for Girls Pay? 25
IV. Is it Too Late for Women to Begin? 37
V. Why Men Should Exercise Daily 51
VI. The School the True Place for Children's Physical Culture 76
VII. What a Gymnasium Might Be and Do 112
VIII. Some Results of Brief Systematic Exercise 133
IX. Work for the Fleshy, the Thin, the Old 145
X. Special Exercise for Any Given Muscles 165
XI. What Exercise to Take Daily 210
XII. Great Men’s Bodies 240
Moses (1571–1451 b.c.) 242
David (1015 b.c.) 243
Paul 245
Socrates (468–399 b.c.) 248
Plato (430–347 b.c.) 251
Aristotle (384-322 b.c) 254
Alexander (356–323 b.c.) 255
Demosthenes (385–322 b.c.) 257
Hannibal (247–183 b.c.) 260
Cicero (102–43 b.c.) 262

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