Fitness Collection (page 2)

League of Health & Beauty demonstration in Hyde Park
Page from The Sketch reporting on the fourth annual demonstration in Hyde Park by the Womens League of Health and Beauty, led by Prunella Stack, whose mother, Mary Bagot Stack

If Unhealthy, Be Healthy by William Heath Robinson
If Unhealthy, Be Healthy: If Healthy, Be Healthier! Keep Fit Exercises: 1. The Bathroom Window Sill Bite - for strengthening the front teeth and developing the muscles of the legs and back

Sketch cover - Prunella Stack (Lady Douglas Hamilton)
Ann Prunella Stack OBE (1915-2011), President of the Womens League of Health and Beauty, founded by her mother Mrs Bagot Stack pictured when she was Lady David Douglas-Hamilton with her baby son

Prunella Stack demonstrating exercises
Prunella Stack - Leader of The Womens League of Health & Beauty, The mortimer Halls, 43 Great Portland Street, W1, London - Aim of the League was

Advert for Vigors home rower 1895
A Perfect Chest & Muscle Developer. To maintain the heath and form of men and women. 1895

Advert for Vigors exercise horse at home 1895
Exercise on this saddle, three speeds trot, canter or gallop and claims to help with; creates appetite, cures dyspepsia, quickens the circulation, stimulates the liver, relieves hysteria, insomnia

Swiss Gymnastic Group Exercise Date: 1903

A seated candidate for the French Air Service is subjected to a series of tests to gauge his respiration, hand and pulse, during the firing of a revolver

Royal Tournament - Physical Training - Royal Air Force
circa 1930

PERSIAN GYMNASTS
Persian athletes exercise to the accompaniment of music Date: circa 1835

Handstand on the beach Langrune Sur Mar, Normandy, France
A teenage girl does a hand stand against a beach hut in Langrune Sur Mar, Normandy, France Date: 1988

Beach tumbler, West Indies
Local man tumbles down the beach doing back flips like an acrobat towards the waves. St Lucia, West Indies. Date: 1986

12th Deutsches Turnfest, Leipzig, Germany
" Heart and hand to the fatherland!" - 12th Deutsches Turnfest (German Gymnastics Festival) at Leipzig - 12th-16th July. Date: 1913

Cadburys Bournville, Birmingham - Girls Gymnasium Exterior
Cadburys Cocoa and Chocolate Works at Bournville, Birmingham - Girls Gymnasium - Exterior view. Date: circa 1909

Sculpture of a male ball player by Georg Mattes (1874-1942). Date: circa 1900s

Sculpture of a Male Swedish Swimmer Date: circa 1900s

Physical Training and Bayonet Fighting Staff 97th TR Batt
The Physical Training and Bayonet Fighting Staff of the 97th Training Reserve (TR) Battalion - Aldershot Barracks, 1917. Date: 1917

Sharron Davies and Neil Adams
Sharron Davies (b 1962), Commonweath and Olympic swimming champion, with Neil Adams (b 1958), European, Olympic and World judo champion

Physical education, Boxing
At a secondary school in Stoke on Trent, England, two boys box in front of their class mates, part of their physical education

Physical education, gym
In the gymnasium a boy performs an acrobatic feat, watched by his fellow classmates. He leaps head first over four other boys who crouch on the floor

Medical examination, WW1
A young man in subjected to a medical examination by a uniformed official of the U.S army

Gym Class in Progress
Physical Exercise - gym class in progress at Danesfield County Primary School, Buckinghamshire

Women's League of Health
The Women's League of Health and Beauty presenting an exercise demonstration in Hyde Park. The League was founded in 1930 by Mary Bagot Stack. Date: 1932

Viyella clothing for all athletic purposes
Advertisement for Viyella, high-class washing material suitable for all athletic purposes including golfing, hockey and fencing. Ideal for the active young woman of 1903. Date: 1903

Advert for Battle Creek Health Builder 1929
Mechanical massaging exercise machine that with a vibrating belt, used by 80, 000 men and women in the 1920s. Date: 1929

Advert for Abplanalps Institute, cure of obesity 1929
Showing a man with large a waistline and after the recommended workout slim two months later. For all sexes the cure of obesity, free booklet and cinema demonstration

Army School of Physical Training, Aldershot
Team photo from the Army School of Physical Training, Aldershot, Hampshire. Date: 1941

Prunella Stack & the Womens League of Health & Beauty
Ann Prunella Stack OBE (1915-2011), President of the Womens League of Health and Beauty, founded by her mother Mrs Bagot Stack

Preston Prison 1905
Tread wheel at Preston prison, 1905 Date: 1905

Health and fitness - girl with clubs
A young girl in the Edwardian era posing in her sports kit with some wooden clubs, frequently used for exercising with at this time. Date: c.1910

Gymnastics Demonstration in the Stadium, Ankara Turkey. Date: circa 1930s

Regain That Boyish Figure
Advertisement from The Sketch for Rosenbaum Rubber Reducing Garments. Their range of corsets and bodices " disperses superfluous flesh naturally". 1928

University Exerciser and Reducer advertisement
Advertisement for the University Exerciser and Reducer to eliminate that tired feeling from your life and step out into a new world of joyful energy

The Modern Way to Health and Beauty
Cover of a 1930s pamphlet advising women on the best way to health and beauty. Illustration shows a woman in a blue shorts suit holding a large ball. Date: c.1937

Prunella Stack - Leader of Womens League of Health & Beauty
Prunella Stack - Leader of The Womens League of Health & Beauty, The mortimer Halls, 43 Great Portland Street, W1, London - Aim of the League was

Three frogs weightlifting on a German postcard
Three frogs weightlifting in the gym on a German postcard. Date: circa 1890s

The Medicine Ball by David Ghilchik
A fashionable 1930s couple dressed in swimsuits partake in a wholesome exercise game with a medicine ball but with unfortunate consequences. Date: 1932

GIRLS EXERCISE 1905
Exercises for girls using a short pole. Date: 1905

Man and woman exercising, using weights and pulley rope. Date: 1917

KEEP FIT CLASS / 1930 S
A Keep fit Class. Exercises are performed on the floor to enhance posture. Date: 1930s

Keep Fit / Throwing Ball
Throwing a ball during a Keep Fit class to develop rhythm & eye training. Date: 1940s

Tennis gowns, 1906
Tennis gowns for sporty women in 1906. On the left a sleeveless zouave to allow the arm full swing in playing. The other has a full blouse bodice with elbow sleeves

Girl playing hockey
A female hockey player from the Edwardian period, clearly disputing the advice from Medicus (insert) that women should, avoid all excess in the field games which are suitable only to sporting men

Photo of the gymnasium at St Brides Institute in the Tatler
Series of black and white photographs from the Sporting and Country House Supplement of the Tatler, 22nd December 1909 showing business girls using the gymnasium at St Brides Institute, London

Lady member of The League of Health and Beauty. In 1930 Mary Bagot Stack created the Womens League of Health & Beauty. Her vision was of a league of women who will renew their energy in themselves

Ovaltine advert, 1927 focusing on the idea of creating energy an nervous vitality Date: 1927

Queen Victoria Rifles training in Hampstead streets, WW1
Members of the Queen Victoria Rifles practising Swedish drill in the streets of Hampstead, which they were using as a training ground, arousing much public interest in the process! 1914

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