William Blaikie
How to Get Strong and How to Stay So
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664563521
Table of Contents
HOW TO GET STRONG, AND HOW TO STAY SO.
CHAPTER I. DO WE INHERIT SHAPELY BODIES?
CHAPTER III. WILL DAILY PHYSICAL EXERCISE FOR GIRLS PAY?
CHAPTER IV. IS IT TOO LATE FOR WOMEN TO BEGIN?
CHAPTER V. WHY MEN SHOULD EXERCISE DAILY.
CHAPTER VII. THE SCHOOL THE TRUE PLACE FOR CHILDREN'S PHYSICAL CULTURE.
CHAPTER VIII. WHAT A GYMNASIUM MIGHT BE AND DO.
CHAPTER IX. SOME RESULTS OF BRIEF SYSTEMATIC EXERCISE.
CHAPTER X. WORK FOR THE FLESHY, THE THIN, THE OLD.
CHAPTER XI. HALF-TRAINED FIREMEN AND POLICE.
CHAPTER XII. SPECIAL EXERCISE FOR ANY GIVEN MUSCLES.
To develop the Leg below the Knee.
Work for the Front of the Thigh.
To Strengthen the Sides of the Waist.
Counterwork for the Abdominal Muscles.
To enlarge and give Power to the Loins.
Filling out the Shoulders and Upper Back.
To bring up the Muscles on the Front and Side of the Shoulder.
Exercises for the Triceps Muscles.
To Strengthen and Develop the Hand.
To Enlarge and Strengthen the Front of the Chest.
To Broaden and Deepen the Chest itself.
CHAPTER XIII. WHAT EXERCISE TO TAKE DAILY.
Daily Exercise for Business Men.
Daily Exercise for Consumptives.
PREFACE.
Millions of our people pass their lives in cities and towns, and at work which keeps them nearly all day in-doors. Many hours are devoted for days and years, under careful teachers, and many millions of dollars are spent annually, in educating the mind and the moral nature. But the body is allowed to grow up all uneducated; indeed, often such a weak, shaky affair that it gets easily out of order, especially in middle and later life, and its owner is wholly unequal to tasks which would have proved easy to him, had he given it even a tithe of the education bestowed so generously in other directions. Not a few, to be sure, have the advantage