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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    pliances and with great benefit to the general health. The more vigorous gymnastics should be carried on under an instructor who may render the training symmetrical. The series of exer- cises outlined in this book will produce a very general development of the system, but there are exercises upon which the uninstructed may rash- ly enter without stopping to consider the chances of uneven development. It is a well-known principle that gymnastics produce as well as cure deformities. The deforming influence of fencing carried to excess must be offset by special training calculated to give the left side a harmonious relation to the right. Left hand fencing, well proportioned to the amount of fencing done with the right hand, is the best of all cures for the mis-balanced condition produced by ordinary practice. Boxing, if it is not turned into “ slugging,” is a fine exercise. It gives balance and suppleness to the whole body. Yet even boxing, if the same hand is always used for guarding, and the left shoulder is always lifted in the protection of the head, will