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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    must have tried some similar adventure when he wrote that “ the sleep of the labouring man is sweety whether he eat little or much.’^ Well^ when we returned to college and got on the scales again, the one hundred and forty-three pounds at starting had somehow become a hundred and fifty-six ! And with them such a grip, and such a splendid feeling! We have rowed many a race since, but there was as hard work done by some of that little squad on that old mountain farm as any man in our boat ever did, and there was not much atten- tion paid to any one^s training rules either. It is notorious, among those used to training for athletic contests, that thin men, if judiciously held in, and not allowed to do too much work, generally train up,^^ or gain decidedly in weight, almost as much, in fact, as the fleshy ones lose. Now, wore the object simply to train up as much as possible, unusual care could be taken to insure careful and deliberate eating, with a generous share of the fat and flesh-making sorts of food, and quiet rest always for awhile after each meal, to aid the digestive organs at their work. Slow, deep, abdominal breathing is a great ally to this latter process; indeed, works dii-ect benefit to many of the vital organs, and so to the whole man. All the sleep the man can possibly take at night would also tell in the right way. So would everything
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