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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    siclerable exercise; all, in fact, tliat they will probably need. If, shortly before bedtime each evening, the youth, after he has been working as above, say for a month, will, in light clothes and any old and easy shoes, run a mile in about seven minutes and a half, and, a little later, under the seven minutes, or, three nights a week, make the distance two miles each night, there will soon be a life and vigour in his legs which used to be unknown; and if six months of this work brings a whole inch more on thigh and calf, it is only what might have been expected. For still more rapid and decided advance, an hour at the gymnasium during the latter part of the morning, half of it at the rowing-weights, so thickening and stoutening the back, and the other half at dipping ” and other half-arm work on the parallel bars—so spreading and enlarging the chest and stoutening the back-arms—these will increase the development rapidly, and will sharpen the appetite at a corresponding rate. But it must be real work, and no dawdling or time lost. Few youug men in any active employment, how- ever, can spare this morning hour. Still, without it, if they will follow up the before-breakfast work, the walking in the fashion named, and the run- ning, they will soon find time enough for this much, and most satisfactory results in the way of s. 2
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