Strenuous Life
Strenuous Life Featuring an amazing cast of historical figures, this is the story of how President Theodore Roosevelt led an American sports and fitness revolution.Give up exercise, Theodore…
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Strenuous Life
Featuring an amazing cast of historical figures, this is the story of how President Theodore Roosevelt led an American sports and fitness revolution.Give up exercise, Theodore Roosevelt was told by a doctor while attending Harvard, or you might die of a heart attack! Roosevelt's body was his weakness, the one hill he could never conquer.But, oh, how he tried!In vivid detail, The Strenuous Life shows how Roosevelt developed an obsession with athletics, carried it to the nation's highest office, and championed a new age of American athleticism. This after being plagued by crippling asthma, myopic eyesight, and other ailments as a child.
He also made certain that each of his children played sports. Not As President, Roosevelt boxed, practiced Ju-Jitsu, played tennis, conducted harrowing point-to-point walks, and invited athletes to the White House.