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For gentlemen leading sedentary lives, Donald Walker has just the pep talk you need. If you haven't yet discovered the vast array of benefits that arise from physical exertion, then let Walker be your guide. As well as helping to prolong life and improve its happiness, active exercises can help you to achieve a beauty of form, elegant air and graceful manners. Through a combination of manly exercises such as leaping, skating and climbing trees, you can acquire the physique you desire and become the envy of all gentlemen. Tips include: · The correct way to walk at different paces - slow, moderate and quick · The best liquids to consume - primarily cold beer and cider · Permitted vegetable matter - including biscuits and stale bread Lavishly illustrated throughout, this Victorian guide has been brought back to life so that modern gents can exercise the manly way.
For ladies leading sedentary lives, Donald Walker has just the pep talk you need. If you haven't yet discovered the vast array of benefits that arise from physical exertion, then let Walker be your guide. As well as helping to prolong life and improve its happiness, active exercises can help you to achieve a beauty of form, elegant air and graceful manners. Through a combination of ladylike exercises such as dancing and dumb-bells, you can become the envy of all ladies. Tips include: - The posture and deportment that will enhance beauty - The correct manner of curtsy and what to do with one's hands when in company - Dangerous activities to avoid, from badminton to billiards Lavishly illustrated throughout, this guide has been brought back to life so that modern ladies can exercise the Victorian way.
It is time to say farewell to poor posture and to revitalise your sedentary life - Donald Walker's age-old advice will have you limbering up, in the proper way, before no time. If you haven't yet discovered the vast array of benefits that arise from physical exertion, then let Walker be your guide. As well as helping to prolong life and improve happiness, active exercises can help you to achieve a beauty of form, elegant air and graceful manners. Through a combination of ladylike exercises such as dancing and dumb-bells, you will become the envy of every room. Tips include: - The posture and deportment that will enhance beauty - The correct manner of curtsy and what to do with one's hands when in company - Dangerous activities to avoid, from badminton to billiards Step aside young yogies and modern-day fitness afficionados, Walker's Victorian advice is proven, practical and positively transformative.
What reward can be more precious than the reward we receive from the power of knowledge. To achieve this, we must first set aside our emotions and allow logic to take control. Only then can we bring back our God given natural ability to reason, otherwise known as, common sense. ---D.W.