Each of the twelve exercises starts from the 'cross' position: 'the arms are to be extended laterally and horizontally, palms down.' Got that? So, we start with Hands: 'At the command, 'hands,' arms are brought down to sides from 'cross.' They should not be allowed to slap against sides.' Hips and Head are pretty similar in the former, you lower your arms and place your hands on your hips 'shoulders, elbows and thumbs well back,' while in the latter you place your hands behind your neck, 'index fingers just touching and elbows forced back.' You may not think these moves sound very difficult, but those three commands 'are sometimes given in quick succession or varied on the chance of catching the unwary napping.' Hands? Grind? Huh? Luckily, the article contained a link to a 1919 magazine article archived by Google Books that described the daily dozen. As the name indicates, there were twelve exercises, and they could be completed in about eight minutes.'

'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. The daily dozen were invented by Walter Camp. Later, Lisa added some information she'd found regarding the 'daily dozen' on Wikipedia: A couple hundred, maybe, unless I get in one of those zones where the words just flow, which I can assure you happens very rarely. My first reaction was to observe that I lack the discipline to write a thousand words a day. Wodehouse's daily routine was to start the day at 7:30 a.m do his 'daily dozen' exercises go to his study and write 1000 words, (in his younger years he averaged closer to 2000 words.) He did this seven days a week until his death at the age of 94. College pal Lisa recently posted this in the Facebook group she set up for our online P.

Daily dozen exercises poster