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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    pounds—light weight for a ten-year-old boy—to 156 pounds; far heavier than most boys at seven- teen; showing an advance of 90 pounds. His forearm went from to 11| inches—very large for a boy of seventeen_, and decidedly above the average of that of most men; his upper arm from 1\ inches to 13g—also far above the average at that age; while his chest had actually increased in girth from 26 inches—which was almost slen- der, even for a ten-year-old—to 39^ inches, which is quite two iiiches larger than the average man^s. His description of this boy was: Height above average; other measurements average. From commencement, growth rapid, and sus- tained with regular and uniform developvient. The whole frame advancing to great physical power. Another boy, H , starting in June, 1860, when ten years old, 4 feet 6j inches high, and weighing 73 pounds—much heavier than the other at the start—in eight years gained 131 inches, making him 5 feet 7| inches—of medium height for that age. He gained 71 pounds in the eight years, and at 144 pounds was better built than W at 156; for, though his forearm, starting at 8 inches, had become 111, a quarter of an inch less thanW '’s, yet his upper arm had gone from 8f to 131 inches, or one-eighth of an
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