How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie.

  • William Blaikie
Date:
1892
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER XIII. WHAT EXEKCISE TO TAKE DAILY. An endeavour has been made thus far to point out how wide-spread is the lack of general bodily exercise among classes whose vocations do not call the muscles into play, and, again, how local and cir- cumscribed is that action even among those who are engaged in most kinds of manual labour. Va- rious simple exercises have been described which, if followed steadily and persistently, will bring size, shape, and strength to any desired muscles. It may be well to group in one place a few move- ments which will enable any one to kuow at once about what amount and sort of work is to be taken daily. Special endeavour will be made to single out such movements as will call for no expensive apparatus. Indeed, most of these want no appa- ratus at all, and hence will be within the reach of all. As it has been urged that the school is the most suitable place to accustom children to the kind and amount of work they particularly need, a few exercises will first be suggested which any teacher can learn almost at once, but which
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