Diocletian Lewis
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Transcript Diocletian Lewis
Historical Figure Presentation
Basic Facts
Life Span: 1823 –
1886
Studied at Harvard
Medical School
Lack of funds
prevented him from
finishing course
Invented the bean
bag and wooden
dumbbells
Diocletian
Lewis
Promoting Physical Education
and Good Health
Did more to promote Physical Education
than any other single individual
Edited and published a medical
magazine in New York which he
supported physical exercise as a part of
public education
From 1852-1863 he was engaged in
lecturing on hygiene, physiology of the
human body, and the promotion of
abstinence of alcohol
Contributions to our profession
Created
a system (Dio Lewis
System) with vigorous exercise
routines
Routines accompanied by music,
dance and social games to get the
heart rate up
Wanted boys, fat men, and women
to have a system they could use to
exercise
Contributions to our profession
Cont.
Opened the Normal Institute of Physical
Education in Boston
In seven years, 500 pupils graduated
His influence had much to do with the
establishment of the present system of
physical culture in most of the
institutions of leaning in the U.S.
I Agree
I agree with everything Lewis did for our
profession
He created a system that can work for
everyone and anyone, and his lectures
of physical education and promotion of
good health and hygiene is how his
philosophies can be useful in teaching
References
Introduction to Physical Education Fitness
and Sport/Daryl Siedentop. – 7th ed.
http://homeoint.org/photo/l/lewisd.htm
http://sueyounghistories.com/archives/2007
/12/11/diocletian-lewis-and-homeopathy/
http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/Contro
versies/Biography-DiocletianLewis.html#.Uj8WnIako8Q
Questions for the Class
1.
What did the Dio Lewis System consist of?
2.
Who was the Dio Lewis system designed
for?
3.
Do you think the promoting Lewis did and
the system he created made a great
contribution to todays physical education,
or do you think he made a lesser
contribution?