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Here's something to take your mind off the snow. It's the folder that holds the charts for the Walter Camp Daily Dozen exercises. The records are hysterical...Camp shouts out orders as the acoustic orchestra grinds through a suitably inspiring work. They date from 1921 or 1922. And you thought it all started with Dancercise or Jane Fonda Camp was a sports writer and coach . He was known as the Father of American Football and coached at Yale while holding down a full time job, according to Wikipedia. The Daily Dozen came out of his work during World War I when he developed a general fitness programme to keep the home front peppy for war work.

Jim

Ha! Thanks for posting that Jim. Ahh! I can almost "feel the burn" now!

I never knew this kind of stuff dated back so far! I have never seen anything advertising it.

RJ

Interesting the same ad appears on the instruction book. I'm not sure they had to include the blood & guts though.
As you can see, the guy in the instructions aint no Jane Fonda, and according to the inside cover of the album, even toddlers can do these exercises!

I have a Victor book of batwing-label health excercises, but can't post images of it since I'm on the road. It is in a brown cloth-covered tri-fold album, with photos and instructions on the inside. Not nearly as cool as the Camp set! Anyone know what the release date of the Victor set is? John M

Shane! That IS the cover of the instruction book for my set. Yours is immeasurably more spiffy! Mine has the exercise pics but no internal plumbing charts! There were several editions I suppose! I have a magazine ad for the set somewhere and I'll see if I can find it.
Jim

Lenoirstreetguy wrote:Here's something to take your mind off the snow. It's the folder that holds the charts for the Walter Camp Daily Dozen exercises. The records are hysterical...Camp shouts out orders as the acoustic orchestra grinds through a suitably inspiring work. They date from 1921 or 1922. And you thought it all started with Dancercise or Jane Fonda Camp was a sports writer and coach . He was known as the Father of American Football and coached at Yale while holding down a full time job, according to Wikipedia. The Daily Dozen came out of his work during World War I when he developed a general fitness programme to keep the home front peppy for war work.

Jim

Jim is right. These are halarious. My record collection is not yet organized and cataloged (>6K) but I knew right where this one was.
I bet Jack LaLane listened to these as a boy.....

It is too funny not to post (sorry about the recording quality. Gargage in, garbage)

richardh wrote:I never knew this kind of stuff dated back so far! I have never seen anything advertising it.

Same here. Great pics tho, thanks for sharing.