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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    photograph of one of the most distinguished student-oarsmen America ever produced, while Fig. 2 represents one of the swiftest and most skilful professional scullers of the country to-day.* Better proof could not be presented of the effeet of a great amount of rowing, and of the very limited exereise it brings to those muscles which are not especially called on. After the students rowing is over, and his college days are past, and he settles down to work with not nearly so mueh play in it, how does he find that his rowing pays? Has it made him fitter than his fellows, who went into athletics with no such zeal and devotion, to stand life’s wear and tear, espeeially when that life is to be spent mainly indoors ? When, in later years, with new asso- ciations, business eares, and long, hard head-work, aeeompanied, as the latter usually is, by only partial inflation of the lungs, when all these get him out of the way of using his large baek muscles, he will find their very size, and the long spell of warping forward whieh so much rowing gave the shoulders, tends more to weigh him forward than if he had never so developed them. Instead of benefiting his throat and lungs, this abnormal dev^elopment aetually inelines to eramp them. 1 The faces of both men haye, of course, been disguised.
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