The principles and practice of educational gymnastics for the use of officers and physical training instructors in His Majesty's fleet.

Date:
1908
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The principles and practice of educational gymnastics for the use of officers and physical training instructors in His Majesty's fleet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    II. THE EXERCISES EMPLOYED. ' 9. The exercises employed in this system of training are chosen with regard to their effects upon the human body. Different exercises are employed to produce different effects, the whole giving a uniform and harmonious development. 10. The exercises are therefore classed in groups accord- ing to the particular effect that each group produces, and not according to any apparatus, which would give no indication of the effect of the exercises upon the system. The groups are named as follows :— 1. Leg exercises. 2. Span bending exercises. 3. Heaving exercises. 4. Balance exercises. 5. Dorsal exercises. 6. Abdominal exercises. 7. Marching. 8. Lateral exercises. 9. Jumping and vaulting. 10. Breathing'exercises. The order in which the groups are here set down is also that in which the exercises should follow each other in the daily lesson, because in this order one exercise prepares the way for the next, and experience has shown that the exercises can be made more powerful, and therefore more effective, without injurious results. When the training has sufficiently advanced, a second Leg exercise and a second Heaving exercise may lie added between groups 8 and 9, making in all 12 groups for a full day’s scheme of training.
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