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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    improved health and increased strength as well. Indeed, it will for most young men prove about the right amount to keep them toned up and ready for their day’s work. If they desire great development in any special line, let them select some of the exercises described in the previous chapter, as aimed to effect such development, and practise them as assiduously, if need be, as Rowell did his tread-mill work for his legs. Daily Exercise for Women. And what should the girls and women do each day ? With two-pound wooden dumb-bells at first, let them, before breakfast, go through twenty-five movements of each of the five sorts just described for young men. After six weeks or two mouths they can increase the number to fifty, and, if this does not bring the desired increase in size, and strength of arm and chest and back, then they can try dumb bells weighing four or five pounds each. Out-of-doors, either in the latter part of the morning or afternoon, if they will, in broad, easy shoes, walk for one hour, not at any listless two- mile pace, but at first as fast as they comfortably can, and then gradually increasing until in a fort- night or more they can make sure of three miles and a half at least, if not of four miles within the hour, and will observe the way of stepping just
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