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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    not be strong without athletics, and violent athletics at that. Men carelessly retard and in¬ jure their physical system during, say, fourteen and a half of their waking hours, and then hope to counteract all this by fifteen minutes’work on a few muscles of their body, and generally not on the muscles that are most injured by the carelessness of the day. It is a fact not very often taken into account that clothes, in their modern form, have a seri¬ ous tendency to interfere with the right devel¬ opment of the body, to hinder muscular action and to generally hamper the physical system. I do not speak now of such special features as the corset, but of clothing in general. Unless the tendency is specifically checked, most wearers of fashionable attire will find them¬ selves yielding to the tailor’s or dressmaker’s measurements. The stiff high collar worn by so many men rather helps the general poise of the head but is a dangerous obstacle to the healthy development of the neck muscles. The shoulders are, perhaps, particularly influenced by modern clothes. A man with low, sloping shoul¬ ders holds himself in a position to keep his sus-