This article analyzes the Swedish gymnastic system created by P. H. Ling. It resumes the trajectory of its precursor and the vocation of the Stockholm Gymnastic Central Institute for the preservation and divulgation of the "lingian" precepts. The focus is, specifically, on the vulgarization and circulation of the method through Portuguese textbooks that were published in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century. The main sources were the textbooks written by Pedro Borges, Antonio M. Ferreira, Paulo Lauret e Arthur Higgins. It was observed in these textbooks a strong inspiration on the Swedish gymnastic, revealed in their systematic lessons, and in the value put on the rectitude, rationality, symmetry, accuracy, education of the will and physical improvement.
Swedish gymnastics; Circulation; Scholar textbooks; Body's education