"Daily Dozen"

Walter Chauncey Camp (1859 –1925) was an American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football".

Camp was a proponent of exercise, and not just for the athletes he coached. 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. It is called the "daily dozen set-up," meaning thereby twelve very simple exercises.

The names of the exercises in the original Daily Dozen, as the whole set became known, were hands, grind, crawl, wave, hips, grate, curl, weave, head, grasp, crouch, and wing. As the name indicates, there were twelve exercises, and they could be completed in about eight minutes. A prolific writer, Camp wrote a book explaining the exercises and extolling their benefits. During the 1920s, a number of newspapers and magazines used the term "Daily Dozen" to refer to exercise in general. Starting in 1922, the new medium of radio began offering morning setting-up exercises using Camp's system.