How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie.

  • William Blaikie
Date:
1892
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Credit: How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    defects in liis pupil, in knowing what exercise will cure them, zealous in interesting him, in en- couraginghim on—what incalculable good he could do ? Every student in that college would pi’acti- cally have to be made over. Long before the four years, or even one of them, were through, that in- structor would have made all the men erect (as is daily being done with the West Pointer). But his pupils, instead of being like the latter, developed simply in those muscles which his business called into play, would each be well developed all over, would each be up to what a well-built man of his years and size ought to be in the way of strength, and skill, and staying powers, and—a most im- portant thing—would know what he could do, and what he could not; and so would not, as is now every day the case with many, attempt physical efforts long before he was fitted for them. If he wanted to go into racing, the director would be his best friend, and would point out to him that the only safe way to get one^s heart and lungs used to the violent action which they must undergo in racing, especially after the racer gets tired, would be by gradually increasing his speed from slow up to the desired pace, instead of, as too often happens, getting up to racing pace before he is half fit for it. But he would also show him how one-sided it
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