The future author of the Mapp and Lucia novels and the champion athlete Eustace Miles, who disagreed about meat but agreed on much else, offer simple rules for staying well. They criticise the fads of current training systems and write on exercise, diet and stimulants, water, heat and light, air and breathing, Turkish baths, rest and sleep. Its health advice is that of 1902.
A period piece of Edwardian fitness culture, entertaining for Benson fans and historians of sport. Download the free EPUB.