A natural method of physical training : making muscle and reducing flesh without dieting or apparatus / by Edwin Checkley.

  • Checkley, Edwin
Date:
[between 1900 and 1909?]
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Credit: A natural method of physical training : making muscle and reducing flesh without dieting or apparatus / by Edwin Checkley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are struggling. The athleticism of the old Grecian race was cultivated under very favor¬ able circumstances. The Grecians not only led a more outdoor life than our northern races, but their mode of living, in respect to public and private festivals, entertaiments and social movements, made the development of the physical man much easier than it can ever be with us. These differences do not make it less proper for us to look to the Greeks, but we should remember the necessities arising out of these differences. It is for us to study out the compromise which must be made. Properly made, this compromise will represent a new and sufficient ideal. It will pay to remember that there has been a good deal of exaggeration in stories of Greek prowess. Undoubtedly we are in possession of some fairly accurate figures concerning the feats of the old athletes, but there are many absurdly false estimates of the early running, jumping and throwing. The Panhellenic games brought forward men who had been in training for great periods for special feats. The honors awarded were so great that no amount of train'