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

  • William Blaikie
Date:
1892
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    CHAPTER IX. SOME EESULTS OP BRIEF SYSTEMATIC EXERCISE. In a country like ours, wliere the masses are so intelligent, where so much cai’e is taken to secure what is called a good education, the ignorance as to what can be done to the body by a little system- atic physical education is simply marvellous. Few persons seem to be aware that any limb, or any part of it, can be developed from a state of weak- ness and deficiency to one of fulness, strength, and beauty, and that equal attention to all the limbs, and to the body as well, will work like results throughout. A man spends three or four weeks at the hay and grain harvest, and is surprised at the increased grip of his hands, and the new power of arm and back. He tramps through forests, and paddles up streams and lakes after game, and returiis wondering how three or four miles on a level sidewalk could ever have tired him. An acquaintance of ours, an active and skilled journalist, says that he once set out to saw twenty cords of wood. He was a slight, weak youth. He found he had not enough strength or wind to get
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