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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    Jiimself equal to all demands likely to be made on him. First he, like the young man or the woman, should make sure of the ten or fifteen minutes’ work before breakfast. Not through the long day again will he be likely to have another good op- portunity for physical exercise, at least until even- ing, and then he will plead that he is too tired. But in the early morning, fresh and rested, and with a few minutes at his disposal, he can, as Bryant did, without serious or violent effort, work himself great benefit, the good effect of which will stay by him all the day. If he has in his room the few bits of apparatus suggested in the chapter on “ Home Gymnasiums,” he will be better off than Bryant was, in that he can have a far wider range of exercise, and that all ready at hand. Let him first devote two or three minutes to the striking-bag. Facing it squarely, with head back and chest well out, let him strike it a succession of vigorous blows, with left and right fists alter- nating, until he has done a hundred in all. If he has hit hard and with spirit, he is puffing freely now, his lungs are fully expanded, his legs have had a deal of springing about to do, and his arms and chest have been busiest of all. This bag- work is really superb exercise, and if once or twice, later in the day, say at one’s place of busi-
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