Anderson's Physical Education: Health and Strength, Grace and SymmetryA.D. Dana, 1897 - 102 pages |
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50 cents 853 BROADWAY adipose tissue ANDERSON'S Physical Education ANKLES Anthropometric arms forward Back to Exerciser BACK UPPER ARM backward bend bend the body BICEPS brain CALF chest arched cise condition deepen the chest defects deltoid develop the muscles draw the blood DYSPEPSIA elbow ercise exer exercise seen Exerciser take exercises mentioned exercising apparatus face feet FIGURE floor front horizontal FRONT UPPER ARM functional disorder GIRTH gymnastic head erect HEARTBURN hips ical Indigestion keep the chest left side LUNG TROUBLE mental mind muscular neck position parents pass the tape physical training physique posi position Fig Raise right and left round shoulders scapulæ SECTION seen in Fig shoulder high side horizontal side to Exerciser SIDE WAIST slowly starting position stooping shoulders strengthen the action swing arms Swing the arms take exercise take the exercises taking the movements tion tissue triceps upper back weight WHITELY EXERCISER widen and deepen woman Yale University
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Page 17 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 26 - The duty of physical health and the duty of spiritual purity and loftiness are not two duties; they are two parts of one duty, — which is the living of the completest life which it is possible for man to live.
Page 93 - ... extreme mobility of the walls of the chest, a third measurement may be taken after the air has been forced out and the chest contracted to its greatest extent. To test the respiratory power, independent of muscular development, pass the tape around the body below the pectoral line and the inferior angles of the scapulae, so that the upper edge shall be two inches below the nipples. Take the girth here before and after inflation. Girth of Waist. — The waist should be measured at the smallest...
Page 10 - Physical perfection serves to assure moral perfection. There is nothing more tyrannical than an enfeebled organism. Nothing sooner paralyzes the free activity of the reason, the flight of the imagination, and the exercise of reflection; nothing sooner dries up all the sources of thought than a sickly body whose functions languish, and for which every effort is a cause of suffering.
Page 93 - Measure around the instep at right angles with the top of the foot, passing a point at the bottom of the foot midway between the end of the great toe and back of the heel. GIRTH OF UPPER ARM. — With the arm of subject bent hard at elbow, firmly contracting the biceps and held away from the body in a horizontal position, pass the tape around the greatest prominence. If desirable to find the girth of the upper arm when the biceps is not contracted, the arm should be held in a horizontal position...
Page 18 - of life which stand a man in such good stead when he goes forth into the world, and without which, indeed, his success is always maimed and partial.
Page 28 - ... intellectual acquirements, apart from moral or physical attributes, have aroused such a feeling. The truth is that, out of the many elements uniting in various proportions to produce in a man's breast that complex emotion which we call love, the strongest are those produced by physical attractions...
Page 28 - On women the effects of this forcing system are, if possible, even more injurious than on men. Being in great measure debarred from those vigorous and enjoyable exercises of body by which boys mitigate the evils of excessive study, girls feel these evils in their full intensity. Hence, the much smaller proportion of them who grow up well-made and healthy.
Page 10 - ... the sources of thought than a sickly body whose functions languish, and for which every effort is a cause of suffering. Then have no scruples ; and if you would form a soul which is to have ample development, a man of generous and intrepid will, a workman capable of great undertakings and arduous labors, first, and above all, secure a vigorous organism, of powerful resistance and muscles of steel.