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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    this necessity for lung development as a prime factor, but the necessity seems to exist, for few modern systems of training are giving anything like the necessary attention to direct lung training. They talk about big chests but little about big lungs. Men with fine looking chests often have treacherous lungs, a condition re- sulting from a cultivation of superficial strength. The chest must be enlarged by the expansion of the lungs, and not by muscular distension. A chest made full by muscular action is a chest traveling on false pretenses. It seems to mean fine lungs underneath but two often does not. There is a point to be noted in connection with the kind of exercise suitable for persons of different constitution and different age. Young people of ordinary health, and no dou- ble with the heart, will enjoy and will profit by quick exercise—exercises of speed. But old people, or people suffering from debility or breathlessness, should cultivate that which slowly arouses their system and does not tax their systems. Running is good for all who can possibly accomplish it, but a long walk is much