An elementary course of gymnastic exercises : intended to develope and improve the physical powers of man / by Peter Henry Clias.
- Clias, Peter Heinrich, 1782-1854.
- Date:
- 1823
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An elementary course of gymnastic exercises : intended to develope and improve the physical powers of man / by Peter Henry Clias. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![diminish the distance, wliich llie runners have yet to pass over. If he perceives that they are fa- tigued, he goes to meet them, which will very much encourage them. If, on the contrary, he sees that they are still vigorous, he may prolong the course, by retreating a fev/ paces. This manner of moving the goal backwards or forwards, at pleasure, du- ring the course, has the double advantage of mode- rating those who have too much ardour, and of encouraging those who have too little. The first distance that children of from eight to ten years of age may he made to run, is about two hundred paces ; the second, for those more advanced, three hundred ; and the third, for adults, four hundred.* OF JUMPING IN GENERAL. Of all the corpora] exercises, jumping is, without contradiction, the finest and the most useful. As it cannot be executed with facility, but in propor- tion to the strength, the elasticity, and the supple- ness of the articulations and muscles of the lower extremities, much exercise is necessary in order to attain to that degree of perfection which smootlis every obstacle, or furnishes us with the means of overcoming them without danger. In a fire, or an inundation, it is often by means of a determined • The Highlanders of Scotland have, indeed, always been celebrated for their pedestrian efforts. In the history of Giis- tavHS Adolphns it is stated, that the Highlanders in his service were able, under the weight of nU their accoutrcir.cnts, to keep pace with the cavalry in tiicir most rapid evolntions, and were of most important service, iii charging along with the horse.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22283183_0050.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
