📚 Gymnastics

Floor and apparatus: the skills, the training culture, and the scoring debates that follow the medals.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject gymnastics in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	How to Get Strong and How to Stay So	William Garden Blaikie	1879	25
	My system	Jørgen Peter Müller	1900	19
	The Epic	Lascelles Abercrombie	1914	15
	Rythme, la musique et l'éducation	Émile Jaques-Dalcroze	1921	10
	Aerobics	Kenneth H. Cooper	1968	9
	Gymnastics	Dan Gutman	1996	9
	A system of physical culture	Carl Betz	1886	8
	Olympic gymnastics	G. C. Kunzle	1956	8
	Iron war	Matt Fitzgerald	2011	8
	A Text book mechano-therapy (massage and medical gymnastics)	Axel V. Grafstrom	1898	7
	Total fitness in 30 minutes a week	Laurence Englemohr Morehouse	1975	7
	Gymnastics Time!	Brendan Flynn	2016	7
	How to join the circus and gymnasium	Tony Denier	1877	6
	Indian clubs, and how to use them	E. Ferdinand Lemaire	1889	6
	Sandow on physical training	Eugen Sandow	1894	6
	Complete book of gymnastics	Newton C. Loken	1959	6
	Gymnastics	Joanne Mattern	1999	6
	Gymnastics	Cynthia Fitterer Klingel	2009	6
	Gymnastics Jump	C. C. Joven	2017	6
	Handbook of school-gymnastics of the Swedish system	Posse, Nils friherre	1892	5
	Girls' gymnastics	Erna Wachtel	1961	5
	The gymnastics book	Elfi Schlegel	2001	5
	Isometrics and you	James Hewitt	1967	4
	The complete book of gymnastics	David Hunn	1978	4
	Gymnastics basics	John Traetta	1979	4
	Little girls in pretty boxes	Ryan, Joan	1995	4
	First day at gymnastics	Anita Ganeri	2002	4
	Gymnastics	Rita Brown	2003	4
	Gymnastics	Rita Brown	2004	4
	Overcoming Gravity	Steven Low	2011	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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