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Title: Physical training for business men; basic rules and simple exercises for gaining assured control of the physical self
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Hancock, Harrie Irving, 1868-1922
Subjects: Physical education and training
Publisher: New York and London, G.P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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tem of drill, he wouldhave discovered the pleasure that comes fromdaily physical drills. This pleasure is foundnot only in the satisfaction derived fromimprovement, but also in the consciousnessof increasing insight into the reasons that un-derlie the choice of all valuable exercises. CHAPTER VII ADVANCED AND STIMULANT* EXERCISES D Y the time that the reader has gone thisfar in a systematic attempt to masterthe exercises presented, occupying, say, a pe-riod of a fortnight of training before takingup the work to which we now come, hisback muscles, regardless of their earliercondition, should now be in excellent form. The movements that will be described inthis chapter must, if followed in the manneradvised, soon complete the work and givethe student correct bodily carriage and thebest physical appearance of which he iscapable. Some of the work that is now tocome would cause a beginners back to achebadly if much persisted in, but the studentwho has gone in proper fashion through the 134
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Fig. 19—Trunk Bend, Forward and Backward. 135 ^ Stimulant Exercises 137 earlier drills need look forward to no com-plaint from his muscles. Figure Number Nineteen is all but self-explanatory. The student takes erect posi-tion with his hands on his hips. Not bendingthe knees, he executes the half-bend forward,pausing just long enough to make a hitchin the movement when the bend has beencompleted. Then at once the head is carriederect again, with another hitch on reachingthat position, then bending backward fromthe waist line as far as he can go. After thathe returns to the position of head erect,followed by the half-bend, and the entiremovement is gone through with again. Atfirst this should be done not more than adozen times, count being taken as the headreaches the half-bend in front. Later on thenumber of counts may be increased as thestudent judges his power to perform withoutundue fatigue. By way of caution it should be said thatnot less than a full half-bend forward shouldbe ac

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