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The Secret of Keeping Fit: An Easy and Sure Way to Better Health

Title

The Secret of Keeping Fit: An Easy and Sure Way to Better Health

Author

Artie McGovern

Description

For twenty-five years Artie McGovern has been the nation's best known physical director and instructor, the designer of sound, strong bodies for 100,000 human beings, and the creator of well-behaving lungs, livers, ab-domens, arms and legs for famous men and women in all walks of life.

Now, for the first time, Artie McGovern reveals to the general public the methods he has used and the secrets of a system which has enabled his pupils to get the very most out of their lives. And it is a bunkless, simple and amazingly pleasant method which shows you how to be happy though healthy.

You will find that this book boldly disregards the do's and don'ts, the charts and graphs of so-called health experts and food faddists.

Do you want to reduce?

Do you want to gain weight?

Do you suffer from insomnia?

Do you feel weak or lethargic upon arising in the morning or after the noon-day meal?

Do your feet trouble you?

If your answer is yes to these ques-tions, or to many more like them, then you belong among the readers of this method of better living, a system based on common sense and sound judgment in which the only unbreakable rules are: 1) Take it easy: 2) Be yourself.

Diet, exercise, reduction, addition, insomnia, feet, business, athletics, golf – these are a few phases of life discussed by Artie McGovern. Close cooperation with thousands of doctors, the reconditioning of rejected recruits during the World War, combined with twentv-three years' experience in handling all types of men and women, have gone into the writing of this book.

Jack Dempsey, Babe Ruth, Gene Sar-azen, Johnny Farrell, Vincent Rich-ards, and Sidney Wood are all ardent McGovern devotees, and still follow his teachings religiously. So do such business leaders as Henry Morgen-thau, John J. Raskob, and hundreds of others.

This book is as valuable as an entire gymnasium course, full of specific exercises that will tone your body to peak condition and teeming with physical and psychological tips on the care and feeding of adults. And it forever blasts away for you the quackery of health charlatans and hokum hakims.

Subject Matter

Fitness

Publication Year

1935

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Language

English

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Citation

“The Secret of Keeping Fit: An Easy and Sure Way to Better Health,” The Bruce Lee Library Research Project, accessed May 14, 2025, https://www.bruceleelibrary.jamescbishop.com/lib/items/show/1912.