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

  • Checkley, Edwin.
Date:
1904
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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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    a certain extent, prompted by a necessary cau- tion. The exercise taken up by a person who has been exercising the brain without the body should be exercise that animates the body without taxing the brain. It should be exer- cise of a kind requiring little fatiguing thought, though the changed attention has its value in relieving the brain. Exercise taken by a person who has been undergoing no serious tax on the brain system might profitably keep up a lively union between the intelligence and the mus- cles. Stimulus will help a worried mind, but when the mind has performed a great deal of detailed labor excitement of any kind is not a good thing. Sleep is much better. It is to be noped that no new system of training will ever send walking out of fashion. Walking is in everyrespect a beautiful exercise, especially when the walker walks as he should, breathing slowly through the nose. Running, as I have said, is an exercise of the highest value to the lungs. When I run for a few streets on a city thoroughfare, the populace look after me as if I were a “ freak,” or as if I