Home Gymnastics
by Professor Hoffmann

This book teaches exercises with dumb-bells, pulley-weights and elastic strings. You also get a good introduction into the theory of exercising, the body and its muscles. And it also has a chapter on obesity, which couldn't be more timely.

Published 1899 by George Routledge and Sons; 63 illustrations; 199 pages.

1. Chapter I: Introduction
8. Chapter II: The Physiology of Exercise
22. Chapter III: The Various Forms of Exercise
33. Chapter IV: How and When to Exercise
40. Chapter V: The Muscles of the Body
49. Chapter VI: The Dumb-Bells and Exercises Therewith
92. Chapter VII: The Pulley-Weight Apparatus
107. Chapter VIII: Exercises with the Pulley-Weight Apparatus
136. Chapter IX: India-Rubber Exercisers
146. Chapter X: Exercises without Apparatus
162. Chapter XI: Home Gymnastics for Women and Children
180. Chapter XII: Exercise in Relation to Obesity
200. L'Envoi