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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    but useful muscle; while walking on the heels, with the toes drawn up high, is simpler yet. For those who want to run heavy risks, and are not con- tented with any exercise which does not threaten their necks, hauging by the toes from a horizontal or trapeze bar will be found to just fill the bill. WotIc for the Front of the Thigh. The muscles of the front thigh have a most inti- mate connexion with those already mentioned, and, for ordinary purposes, a fair development of them is more necessary than of those below the knee. In common walking, for instance, while the calf gets something to do, the thigh gets far more, es- pecially when the step is low and flat, and the heel never raised far from the ground. A man will often have large and strong thighs, and yet but indifferent calvms. A prominent Harvard oarsman, a strong and fast walker, and a man of magnificent development in most points, was once examined carefully by Greenough, the sculptor. I should know you were an American,” said he, “ because you have no calves and, indeed, his mistake in developing splendid arms, and trunk, and thighs, and forgetting all about the calves, is far too com- mon a one among our athletes to-day; though the prominence they are beginning to give to running helps to mend matters in this respect.
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