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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    CHAPTER XII. SPECIAL EXEECISE FOE ANY GIVEN MUSCLES. While symmetrical and thorough physical deve- lopment are not at all common among Ameri- cans^ and undeveloped, inerect, and weak bodies almost outnumber any other kind, the general want of familiarity with what will develope any given muscles, and bring them up to the fulness and strength which ought to be theirs, is even more sur- prising. If proof is wanted of this, let the reader ask himself what special work he would choose to develope any given part; the muscles of the fore- arm, for instance, or those of the front of the chest. If he has ever paid any attention to his physical de- velopment—and thousands and tens of thousands have not—he may know one or two things which will bring about the desired result; but even if he has attended the gymnasium a good deal, he will often be surprised to find that his time there was mainly spent in accomplishing some particular feat or amount of work, rather than in bringing about the special development of any given part, or general development of the whole body.
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