Excerpt from The Assessment of Physical Fitness One good effect of the War has been that it has thoroughly awakened public interest in the importance of physical fitness, not only to the individual but also to the nation. Hitherto there has been no satisfactory nor uniform method of estimating the physical fitness of a man, woman, or child. It is the aim of this book to supply medical men and others directly interested in the subject with a method, new only in the details of its application, whereby physical fitness can be assessed on the basis of a few simple physical measurements. This method will, I believe, be found to be easily learned, speedy, and trustworthy. Inadequacy or the older methods.-investigators who have been concerned with the study and estimation of the physical development of the population of this and other countries must undoubtedly have felt how uh satisfactory the results obtained by the use of existing Tables dealing with the height and weight of the body have proved. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.