It is called the 'daily dozen set-up,' meaning thereby twelve very simple exercises.īoth the Army and the Navy used Camp's methods. Walter Camp has just developed for the Naval Commission on Training Camp Activities a 'short hand' system of setting up exercises that seems to fill the bill a system designed to give a man a running jump start for the serious work of the day. While working as an adviser to the United States military during World War I, he devised a program to help servicemen become more physically fit.
Camp was a proponent of exercise, and not just for the athletes he coached.
