The Way To Live: In Health and Physical Fitness (Original Version, Restored)

Bought for my husband. He has enjoyed it.

The illustrations showing the form and movements for the exercises might as well be about 5 pixels. Nearly unintelligible

Some really wise tips for all around health.

Font, and pictures appear to have come from a scan, rather than a transpose or re-write. Leaving the text just slightly out of focus. Short stints should be fine, but longer reads will probably cause headaches.

I didn't really read half of it. The last half was him writing about his life and upbringing, but what's most interesting is how not a lot has changed in 100 years. Medical science has, of course, advanced significantly, but Hackenschmidt talks about people making excuses to exercise which are the same excuses people use today. He also poses some interesting questions about principles of why you should be strong/in shape.Overall, I think you'd be better off reading this from a library, unless you're specifically reading things by original strong men.

I was so excited to receive this book, the information is good but the photo quality is so bad that it takes away from the experience.

As mentioned by other folks the text in the book is okay. But the pictures and illustrations in the book are terrible quality. The graphics in the book are so low quality they are essentially useless. I am not sure how the maker of this book is not aware, I think they simply don’t care.

The words themselves are completely fine, but the words underneath the pictures as well as the pictures themselves are very pixellated for some reason.

This edition is just awful, there are type recognition errors throughout the book, even on the back cover (see book description). As a publisher myself, I know that most of these errors could have been corrected with a simple spell check and a few routine checks which would have taken but a few minutes of the publisher's time. The diagrams are so badly reproduced as to be practically illegible. No attempt has been made to correct the usual errors you have when you use type recognition software, the quote marks have all been rendered as inch symbols, the book is full of double spaces and false returns, and lettersthat have been misrecognised. Clearly the book has not been proof read or any effort put into its design.

This book, written by a strength athlete from a different era has much wisdom in it's pages. Some of the exercises I have not seen before. Some of the exercises would be classed as unsafe by todays standards. One of these was doing the equivalent of a lying leg press machine, but without the machine and balancing a barbell across your feet and pushing up with your legs. However, there is much of interest here and also much that can be useful. I am going to be using a lot of this information in my training.

An absolute classic and a foundation of a movement. You do need to read this with modern glasses on as some of the exercises can cause issues.Well written and definitely worth a read for anyone interested in fitness.

Terrible quality, can't make out the illustrations to the point that they just shouldn't be in the book.

Informative book