If you want a US book on exercise from about the same era, you could do worse than read what Walt Whitman wrote. Examples: https://whitmanarchive.org/published

If you want a US book on exercise from about the same era, you could do worse than read what Walt Whitman wrote. Examples: https://whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/journalism/tei/per.00594.html https://whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/journalism/t... Cool hardback book of excerpts: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Whitmans-Guide-Manly-Health-Training/dp/0399579486 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Whitmans-Guide-Manly-Health-Trainin... My favourite quote: “In robust training for this life, which is itself a continual fight with some form of adversary or other, the aim should be to form that solid and adamantine fiber which will endure long and serious attacks upon it, and come out unharmed from them, rather than the ability to perform sudden and brilliant feats, which often exhaust the powers in show, without doing any substantial good.”