Name/TitleBooklet: Keep-Fit and Recreative Gymnastics
About this objectSlim paperback booklet with blue cover titled 'Keep-Fit and Recreative Gymnastics'. Priced 2/6. Contents listed as follows:
- Foreword
- Introduction
- The Aim of Physical Recreation
- The Scope and Content of the Book
- The Terms "Recreative Gymnastics" and "Keep-Fit"
- Compilation of the Book
- Key to Music References
- Section I: Specimen Exercises
- Activities
- Head Exercises
- Arm and Shoulder Exercises
- Hip and Leg Exercises
- Foot Exercises
- Trunk Exercises
- Agilities
- Section II: Table Construction
- The Order of the Table
- "Breaks"
- Short Tables
- Progression
- Combined Movements
- Section III: The Training of Good Posture
- Section IV: Specimen Tables
- A Twenty-Minute Keep-Fit Table
- A Twenty-Minute Recreative Gymnastics Table
- A "Daily Dozen"
- Three Progressive Keep-Fit Tables
- Recommended Publications
MakerCentral Council of Recreative Physical Training
Date Made1944
Period1940s
Place MadeEngland, London
Place NotesThe Central Council of Recreative Physical Training,
58 Victoria Street, London, S.W.1
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper
Inscription and MarksFront cover, top right, in blue ink:
R. Goldsmith
MeasurementsH: 245 x W: 188 mm
Subject and Association KeywordsWomen's healthcare
Subject and Association Keywordsfitness, exercise
Subject and Association Keywordsdance & movement
Subject and Association DescriptionDonated as part of a collection of documents relating to the Scottish/Glasgow Women's Keep Fit Association belonging to Rhoda Goldsmith (1924 - 2013), who was a member from her youth until 2012.
https://keepfit.org.uk/about-us:
The Keep Fit Association is a long-established body from 1956 and is dedicated to the provision of safe and effective exercise, movement and dance. KFA exercise is based on Rudolf Laban’s principles providing an holistic workout with functional fitness through creative choreography. Rudolf Laban’s ultimate aim was that movement was for all and that dance should give joy to people through moving together; an aim that the Keep Fit Association both embrace and promote in all that they do. In the early 1960s, the Keep Fit Association declared its training policy and has been offering classes for recreation, based on Laban’s analysis of movement, ever since. Movement and dance ideas developed through the use of Laban’s analysis are limitless. It does not presuppose one style of movement and cannot be totally encompassed by one person. By considering the body as an instrument, using pathways, rhythms, and creating relationships, we offer ourselves the opportunity to become a whole person and our teachers offer that opportunity to their class members. Rudolf Laban’s study of movement, to which he devoted his whole life, is essentially concerned with a person in relation to the world and the people around them.
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeBooklet
Object numberGWL-2024-16-5
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved