Apr 2019 Developed by Walter Camp in 1920, the daily dozen originally. So, your assignment for today, boys and girls, is to go home and learn these Daily Dozen Exercises and start doing them from now on. These 10 exercises are always performed in the order and at the cadence shown. They don’t cost anything, other than about 10 minutes of your time, and there’s no fancy equipment (or, obviously, exercise attire) required.
Camp’s Daily Dozen Exercises continue to be a “fitness classic” and a hallmark of simple but effective physical health enhancement tools that anybody can use. With the passage of time, other fads and fitness crazes took its place. The Daily Dozen craze spread during the 1920s and even led to a host of products - books, audio (phonograph records) and magazine articles - spun off from the routine. I love this picture of President Woodrow Wilson’s cabinet members doing them on the White House lawn… Thank you to Brett & Kate McKay at Art of Manliness, for publishing this great (historical) photo along with your awesome article!
Businessmen and politicians and government big-wigs, too. They caught on like wild fire, and pretty soon civilians, working men and housewives were doing them. Thus were born the Famous Daily Dozen Exercises. It was during this time that he developed a simple but sophisticated exercise regimen for soldiers and sailors to follow to keep them in good shape by starting their work day off with a short series of movements that were easy on the body yet beneficial and effective. Because of his high reputation and expertise in the field, he served as a fitness advisor to the U.S. This, of course, means that he was an “exercise buff” in general. He played it, coached it, wrote about it and taught it. He took the game of rugby and transformed it into the organized mayhem of a sport that we know today. Walter Camp was considered the “ Father of American Football“. So far so good.Īfter all, if you’re going to be a health nut, you might as well go all the way.Įven if that means going back in time a hundred years! But I have found them to be really helpful to include along with all the other stuff that I’m already doing to fend off both age and illness. It’s not a be-all-end-all program, by any means. 7) Topics 78rpm, Exercise Digitizing sponsor Kahle/Austin Foundation Contributor Internet Archive Language English Performer: WALTER CAMP Advanced Lesson No. By the time of his death, he had written nearly 30 books and more than 250 magazine articles.Being that today is Saturday, I thought I would share a personal fitness tip with you.Īnd by personal, I do mean that I personally do these as part of my own fitness routine. Favorite THE 'DAILY DOZEN' by WALTER CAMP Musical Health Builder (No. Camp wrote articles and books on the gridiron and sports in general, annually publishing an " All-American" team.
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