The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness published in 1873, recommends swimming, cricket, ice skating, hunting, sailing, boxing, and riding, under the chapter titled "Manly Exercises" starting on page 154.

[Walker's Manly Exercises] (https://books.google.com/books?id=tY4_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PR7&dq=manly+exercise+swim&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjKicvxw8nOAhVEGR4KHQrJDaYQ6AEIJTAA#v=onepage&q=manly%20exercise%20swim&f=false) published in 1856, is full of stretches and exercises.

Manual of Boxing, Club Swinging, and Manly Sports published in 1883, gives instruction for "boxing, fencing, wrestling, club swinging, dumbbell, gymnastics, swimming, tumbling, etc." This book gives advice for running, and training for short distance sprints and runs.

Some wealthy homes were built with pools and gymnasiums; the Titanic had a gym as well. They used devices similar to modern day cable machines, stationary bikes, rowing machines, dumbbells, and rings among other things.

Examples of late Victorian gyms:

Biltmore Estate (built in 1895)

Wisconsin School for the deaf (photo from 1893)