Bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health and wellness

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Sports snacking : active bodies crave carbohydrate for energy. But how do you get the most from meals and snack on the right foods at the right time?

A man and wife and their two children and dog climbing up a grassy knoll as exercise in the fresh air. Colour lithograph by Hulls.

Don't waste your time or money on ROT! : Here's what I'm ready to do: I'll prove in just 7 days YOU can have a body like mine / Charles Atlas.

Hopîtal Royal de Bicêtre, Paris: patients exercising in the grounds. Engraving by Letitia Byrne, 1829, after T. Nash.

Earl's Court House, London: the gardens with several women, walking, skipping, playing badminton, etc. Coloured lithograph by G. E. Madeley after himself.

Persian men doing physical exercises. Engraving by C.F. Fritschius.

Fish for life : fast food for active bodies / Sea Fish Industry Authority, Asset, exercise professionals.

Seven ways to look after your health / NAM.

Focus on the new year : get ahead with what you eat : after an indulgent Christmas and new year it is important to get back on track ... / Compass Group Holdings plc.

HIV & AIDS : a resource pack for use with 11 to 14 year olds / Wellcome [Foundation].

Healthy lifestyle progress charts : healthy eating, being more active, stopping smoking made easier / Health Education Authority, The Health Show, BBC.

De arte gymnastica libri sex. In quibus exercitationum vetustarum genera, loca, modi, facultates, & quidquid denique ad corporis humani exercitationes pertinet diligenter explicatur / Hieronymi Mercurialis Foroliviensis.

In the Zone at home / Wellcome Trust.

Horizontal half-standing / [British American Tobacco].

Mobilistics cod liver 'oiling' the joints : fitness for the over 50s / YMCA ; Seven Seas.

Give us a break! / Graham Hood.

Price guide : a great range of activities / Camden Council.

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Exercise

Images from the collections

Images about Exercise

Works from the collections

In the Zone at home / Wellcome Trust.

Horizontal half-standing / [British American Tobacco].

Mobilistics cod liver 'oiling' the joints : fitness for the over 50s / YMCA ; Seven Seas.

Give us a break! / Graham Hood.

Price guide : a great range of activities / Camden Council.

Exercise

Images from the collections

Images about Exercise

Works from the collections

In the Zone at home / Wellcome Trust.

Horizontal half-standing / [British American Tobacco].

Mobilistics cod liver 'oiling' the joints : fitness for the over 50s / YMCA ; Seven Seas.

Give us a break! / Graham Hood.

Price guide : a great range of activities / Camden Council.

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