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Title: Exercises for ladies;
Year: 1836 (1830s)
Authors: Walker, Donald. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Physical education and training
Publisher: London, T. Hurst
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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e, the better will be the effect upon theshoulder.—(Sec Plate XII, fig. 2.) 80 EXERCISE WITH THE ROD. It is afterwards carried behind the back, hold-ing so firmly that no change takes place in theposition of the hands.—(See Plate XII, fig. 3.) This movement is then reversed, to bring itback over the head to the first position. third exercise. The same exercises are performed by graspingthe stick with the hands in an opposite position;that is to say, with the thumbs in front or thepalms of the hands forwards.—(See Plate XIII, It is raised parallel with the shoulders, ex-tending it first on the left and then on the rightarm. FOURTH EXERCISE. It is next raised above the head, the handsbeing still in their new position.—(See Plate XIII, fig. 2-) It is afterwards lowered behind the back.—(See Plate XIII, fig. 3.) The exercise is concluded by bringing it to itsoriginal position in front. These exercises cannot be performed in all theirdifferent movements with promptitude and regu-
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I t DUMB-BELLS. 81 larity without many trials and repetitions. Theirtendency is to confirm the good position and theflexibility of the shoulders, produced by theextension motions. THE DUMB-BELLS. This instrument is one of the oldest used ingymnastics. It may be seen in the Latin workof Mercurialis de Arte Gymnastica; and thoughits form was not precisely the same as at present,the result produced was similar. It has beenlong in use in England, where it enters into theschool exercise of most seminaries for the instruc-tion of ladies. For children from six to ten years of age, dumb-bells should not weigh more than from three tofour pounds each; and for children from ten tofifteen years of age. they may weigh from fourto six pounds each. To use dumb-bells with all the advantage theyadmit of, the young person should stand in thefundamental position already described. To obtain the first position, the hands and the 82 DUMB-BELLS. dumb-bells are, by a slight rotatory movementof the arm outwa

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