Physical Fitness

A Selected Bibliography *

 

 

 

Prepared by a committee representing the American Physical Education
Association and the American Library Associationt composed of
THomas K. Cureton, Ph.D., University of Illinois (Chairman). (Physical
Education and Recreation.) Citar E. Turner, D.P.H., Massachusetts In-
stitute of Technology. (Health Education and Nutrition.) Emma McCoy

Layman, Ph.D. (Mental Hygiene.)

HIS bibliography of books on

Physical Fitness is selective. It in-

cludes books, published through
October 1942, dealing with wartime phases
of physical fitness, supplemented by a few
of the better older books to complete the
scope of the work. The dynamic aspects
of physical fitness are now emphasized by
the Physical Fitness Division of the U.S.
Office of Education and Federal Security
Agency. A larger number of books are
given for Sports and Conditioning Exer-
cises to emphasize the positive develop-
mental aspects of fitness. Other phases
are not neglected and some better books
are listed for:

1. General Hygiene.
2. Nutrition.

3. Standards and Measurements of
Fitness.

4, Scientific Analysis.

_ Hygiene and nutrition courses will need
those in the first two categories. Adminis-

trators and teachers are dependent upon
measurement and standards to motivate
the pupils, to establish status as a basis of
guidance, and to evaluate improvement.
Most of all they need to know the practical
activities. Students in professional classes
will need books which deal with the basic
scientific principles. All aspects are im-
portant for the professional worker.

The activity books were selected on the
basis that they represent activities for
physical fitness which are being empha-
sized in the present wartime emergency.
The following areas of emphasis were rec-
ognized and are represented in the selec-
tions:

1. Swimming and Warfare Aquatics.

2. Calisthenics and Gymnastic Condi-
tioning Exercises.

3. Fundamentals of Team Combative
Sports.

4. Wrestling, Boxing, and Rough and
Tumble Fighting (Judo).

 

* This list will appear also in the Research Quarterly of the American Association for Health, Physical

Education and Recreation.

{ This project was suggested originally by Carl M. White, of the American Library Association,
Director of the University of Illinois Library. It came as a follow-up to Bulletin 23, of the American
Council on Education dealing with Higher Education and National Defense which specified that a
more definite and consistent program for physical fitness should be developed and required of all
students at this time. In taking this matter up with the Department of Physical Education at the
University of Illinois the matter was referred to the Research Council and the Governing Board of the
American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation, which confirmed the above
named committee to do the job of selecting the titles. Acknowledgment is made for assistance ren-
dered in compilation by Warren Huffman and Norma Mulvane, in the office of the chairman, University

of Illinois.

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