PHYSICAL CULTURE.
For Home and School. Scientific and Practical. By D. L. Dowd, Professor of Physical Culture. 322 12mo. pages. 300 Illustrations. Fine Binding, Price $1.50.
CONTENTS.
Physical Culture, Scientific and Practical, for the Home and School. Pure Air and Foul Air.
Questions Constantly Being Asked:
No. 1. Does massage treatment strengthen muscular tissue?No. 2. Are boat-racing and horseback-riding good exercises?No. 3. Are athletic sports conducive to health?No. 4. Why do you object to developing with heavy weights?No. 5. How long a time will it take to reach the limit of development?No. 6. Is there a limit to muscular development, and is it possible to gain an abnormal development?No. 7. What is meant by being muscle bound?No. 8. Why are some small men stronger than others of nearly double their size?No. 9. Why is a person taller with less weight in the morning than in the evening?No. 10. How should a person breathe while racing or walking up-stairs or up-hill?No. 11. Is there any advantage gained by weighting the shoes of sprinters and horses?No. 12. What kind of food is best for us to eat?No. 13. What form of bathing is best?No. 14. How can I best reduce my weight, or how increase it?No. 15. Can you determine the size of one’s lungs by blowing in a spirometer?Personal Experience of the Author in Physical Training.Physical Culture for the Voice. Practice of Deep Breathing.Facial and Neck Development. A few Hints for the Complexion.The Graceful and Ungraceful Figure, and Improvement of Deformities, such as Bow-Leg, Knock-Knee, Wry-Neck, Round Shoulders, Lateral Curvature of the Spine, etc.A few Brief Rules. The Normal Man. Specific Exercises for the Development of Every Set of Muscles of the Body, Arms and Legs, also Exercises for Deepening and Broadening the Chest and Strengthening the Lungs.These 34 Specific Exercises are each illustrated by a full length figure (taken from life) showing the set of muscles in contraction, Which can be developed by each of them. Dumb Bell Exercises.Ten Appendices showing the relative gain of pupils from 9 years of age to 40.All who value Health, Strength and Happiness should procure and read this work; it will be found by far the best work ever written on this important subject. Sent by mail, postpaid, on receipt of price. $1.50.
No. 1. Does massage treatment strengthen muscular tissue?
No. 2. Are boat-racing and horseback-riding good exercises?
No. 3. Are athletic sports conducive to health?
No. 4. Why do you object to developing with heavy weights?
No. 5. How long a time will it take to reach the limit of development?
No. 6. Is there a limit to muscular development, and is it possible to gain an abnormal development?
No. 7. What is meant by being muscle bound?
No. 8. Why are some small men stronger than others of nearly double their size?
No. 9. Why is a person taller with less weight in the morning than in the evening?
No. 10. How should a person breathe while racing or walking up-stairs or up-hill?
No. 11. Is there any advantage gained by weighting the shoes of sprinters and horses?
No. 12. What kind of food is best for us to eat?
No. 13. What form of bathing is best?
No. 14. How can I best reduce my weight, or how increase it?
No. 15. Can you determine the size of one’s lungs by blowing in a spirometer?
Personal Experience of the Author in Physical Training.
Physical Culture for the Voice. Practice of Deep Breathing.
Facial and Neck Development. A few Hints for the Complexion.
The Graceful and Ungraceful Figure, and Improvement of Deformities, such as Bow-Leg, Knock-Knee, Wry-Neck, Round Shoulders, Lateral Curvature of the Spine, etc.
A few Brief Rules. The Normal Man. Specific Exercises for the Development of Every Set of Muscles of the Body, Arms and Legs, also Exercises for Deepening and Broadening the Chest and Strengthening the Lungs.
These 34 Specific Exercises are each illustrated by a full length figure (taken from life) showing the set of muscles in contraction, Which can be developed by each of them. Dumb Bell Exercises.
Ten Appendices showing the relative gain of pupils from 9 years of age to 40.
All who value Health, Strength and Happiness should procure and read this work; it will be found by far the best work ever written on this important subject. Sent by mail, postpaid, on receipt of price. $1.50.
Address, Fowler & Wells Co., Publishers, 775 Broadway, New York.