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 five feet ten inches in height, while Heenan stood foui' inches taller. He says that as surely as the ability exists to make many dips, so surely will there be a large back-arm, and it was hard work that brought him his. Slim arms may push up heavy dumb-bells once or twice, but it takes thick ones for sustained effort at smaller, though good-sized ones. To Strengthen and Develops the Hand. Very many of the exercises so useful in strength- ening the forearm were at the same time improv- ing the grip of the hand. But an evil of so much gripping or drawing the hand together is that, un- less thej’e is an equal amount of work to open and flatten it, it tends to become hooked. Notice the rowing-man’s hand, and the fingers nearly always, when at rest, are inclined to be doubled in, as if half clutching something; and very often, where they have seen years of rowing, their joints get so set that the fingers cannot be bent back nearly as far as other people’s. Some of the pushing exer- cises mentioned above for the triceps tend to counteract this, notably that where the fingers or the flat of the hands are pressed against the wall. An admirable exercise in this direction is, when you practise the pushing up from the floor for the triceps, to only touch the floor with the ends of Q
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