Blaikie hopes this volume will give the reader a nudge to take better care of his body, and so of his health, and then to point out one way to do it. The contents of this book are: ‘Do We Inherit Shapely Bodies?’; Half-Built Boys; ‘Will Daily Physical Exercise for Girls Pay?’; ‘Is it Too Late for Women to Begin?’; Why Men Should Exercise Daily; Home Gymnasiums; The School, the True Place for Children’s Physical Culture; What a Gymnasium might Be and Do; Some Results of Brief Systematic Exercise; Work for the Fleshy, the Thin, the Old; Half-trained Firemen and Police; Special Exercise for any Given Muscles; and What Exercise to Take Daily.