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Physical Education and Training

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Images from the collections

Images about Physical Education and Training

81 images from works
  • Sandow's magazine of physical culture.
  • La culture physique.
  • Complan : the front runner / Crookes Healthcare Limited ; in association with Athletics Weekly.
  • La Culture Physique, 1908, Ecole Desbonnet
  • 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.
  • La culture physique.
  • Recruits' table card : containing 1.Twelve recruits' physical training tables, 2.Brain stimulating exercises, 3.Obstacle training exercises, 4.Summary of bayonnet fencing exercises, 5.Summary of boxing lessons, 6.Summary of wrestling lessons, 7.Summary of land swimming drill, 8.Summary of athletic training for recruits under training / issued by the General Staff, February, 1922.
  • 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.
  • Recruits' table card : containing 1.Twelve recruits' physical training tables, 2.Brain stimulating exercises, 3.Obstacle training exercises, 4.Summary of bayonnet fencing exercises, 5.Summary of boxing lessons, 6.Summary of wrestling lessons, 7.Summary of land swimming drill, 8.Summary of athletic training for recruits under training / issued by the General Staff, February, 1922.
  • Recruits' table card : containing 1.Twelve recruits' physical training tables, 2.Brain stimulating exercises, 3.Obstacle training exercises, 4.Summary of bayonnet fencing exercises, 5.Summary of boxing lessons, 6.Summary of wrestling lessons, 7.Summary of land swimming drill, 8.Summary of athletic training for recruits under training / issued by the General Staff, February, 1922.
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Works from the collections

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    • Ephemera

    Commit to get fit : £30 for 30 days!.

    | Date: [2004]
    • Ephemera

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

    | Date: [1993]
    • Ephemera

    Oasis Health Clinic at The Oasis Sports Centre.

    | Date: [2004]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Complan : the front runner / Crookes Healthcare Limited ; in association with Athletics Weekly.

    Crookes Healthcare Limited. | Date: [1992?]
    • Books

    Hints toward physical perfection, or, The philosophy of human beauty : showing how to acquire and retain bodily symmetry, health, and vigor, secure long life, and avoid the infirmities and deformities of age / by D. H. Jacques.

    Jacques, D. H. (Daniel Harrison), 1825-1877. | Date: 1859
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Related topics

Physical Fitness
Gymnasiums
Exercise
London
Exercise
Gymnastics
W.D. & H.O. Wills
Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and Ireland
Bodybuilding
Muscle Development

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