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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    them. In the more severe triceps work, such as the (lips, the strain across these chest-muscles is very great, for they are then a very important fac- tor in helping to hold up the weight of the whole body. This fact suggests the folly of letting any one try so severe a thing as a dip, when his triceps and pectoral muscles have not been used to any such heavy work. Many a person who has rashly attempted this has had to pay for it with a pain for several days at the edge of the pectoral, where it meets the breast-bone, until he concluded he must have broken something. Working with the dumb-bells when the arms are extended at right angles with the body, like a cross, and raising them up and down for a foot or so, is one of the best things for the upper edge of the pectorals, or that part next to the collar- bone. This brings us to a matter of great importance, and one often overlooked. Whoever knows many gymnasts, and has seen them stripped or in exer- cising costume, must occasionally have observed that, while they had worked at exercises which brought up these pectoral muscles until they were almost huge, their chests under their muscles had somehow not advanced accordingly. Indeed, in more than one instance which has come under our observation, the man looked as though, should you
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