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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    no obstacle will balk. Tie is simply showing the truth of Emerson^s broad rule, that “ in all human action those faculties will be strong which are used/’ and of Maclaren’s, “ Where the activity is, there will be the development/’ The new work flushes the muscles in question with far more blood than before, while the wear and tear being greater, the call for new material corresponds, and more and more hearty food is eaten and assimilated. The quarter-inch or more of gain the first fortnight often becomes the whole inch in less than two months, and long before the year is out the coveted two inches have come. And, in acquiring them, his w^hole left arm and shoulder have had correspondingly new strength added, quite going past his right, though it was the larger at first, if meanwhile he has practically let it alone. There are some men, either at the college or city gymnasiums, every year, who are practically srettinn: to themselves such an increase in the strength and size of some particular muscles. We knew one at college who, on entering, stood hardly five feet four, weighed but about one hun- dred and fifteen pounds, and was small and rather spare. For four years he worked with great steadi- ness in the gymnasium, afoot and on the water, and he graduated a five-foot-eight man, splendidly
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