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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Licence: In copyright

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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    or special physical training is agreeable. In fact, few who enter it find any kind of training without some exhilaration. But the proportion of people who do any training at all is very small, while the number who might, if the pro¬ posed training did not come in the guise of hardship, is unquestionably considerable. The course of exercises prescribed to many an ambi¬ tious victim of physical weakness is altogether too heroic, and even those who are fairly strong, and who would like to develop and maintain their strength, are frightened off by the systems put forward as necessary. Elaborate apparatus is one of the symptoms of an elaborate system. The little fellow who went a-fishing was cer¬ tain he could catch bigger fish the further he went away from home, and the designers of health lifts and chest expanders, boxing ma¬ chines and rowing appliances seem to feel that the glitter and elaboration of their machinery will tempt and benefit the purchaser in pro¬ portion to their size—-and complexity. It is undoubtedly a fact that certain artistic formulas for training have a fascination at the outset. Their ingenuity seems to promise an