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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    to attempt ? That is just what it is not. Is there anything very formidable in wooden dumb-bells weighing only two and a half pounds each, or clubs of three and a half pounds, or pulley-weights of from ten to fifteen pounds ? or is any great dan- ger likely to result from their use ? And yet they were Sargent^s weapons with his Bowdoiu two hundred.^ Nothing in Maclaren’s work, so far as he points out what it is, is nearly so dangerous as a sudden run to boat or train, taken by one all out of the way of running, perhaps who has never learned. There a heart unused to swift work is suddenly forced to beat at a tremendous rate, lungs ordinarily half-used are strained to their utmosr, and all without one jot of preparation. But here, by the most careful and judicious system, the result of long study and much prac- tical application, a person is taken, and, by work exactly suited to his weak state, is gradually hardened and strengthened. Then still more is given him to do, and so on, at the rate that is plainly seen to best suit him. Develope every man^s body by such a method, teach every Ameri- can school-boy the erect carriage of the West Pointer, and how many men among us would there bo built after the pattern of the typical brother 2 See Appendix II.
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