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Author : Hébert Georges
Title : Practical Guide of Physical Education
Year : 1912

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Foreword. This is a partial and incomplete translation of Georges Hébert's Guide pratique d'éducation physique, 2nd edition, 1912. The original work is over 500 pages, encompasses everything from building training grounds to muscular anatomy, and contains detailed theory and practical information. Faced with such a task, I decided to start translating things I was interested in, namely elementary exercises for building strength and flexibility and practical exercises of relevance for Parkour training. The book comes with many photographs, and I tried to keep as many as I could in the text, although I didn't go through the hassle to reference them directly in the text. The translation is far from literal and must contain some bias, although I tried to avoid interpreting or modernizing any of the text. In the very few cases Hébert's work seems at odds with modern knowledge, I added notes mentioning the differences, but kept the original text as well. I plan to include more of the book in later versions, but this should already allow you to build a solid workout in the style of the natural method. Hoping this will inspire traceurs and traceuses to explore Hébert's ideas on physical education, Pilou, June 2009. ...