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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
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e up a course ofexercises. Probably the resulting idea wasconceived only hazily, for the man afterwardsannounced that he had joined a bowlingclub and was putting in an hour and a half 148 Stimulant Exercises an evening at that sport. The plan was badin itself, for no one form of exercise can bemade to serve the purposes of a systematizedcombination of exercises. Have you been bowling tonight?* in-quired the writer. Yes; Tm on my way home. Do you catch that scent of whiskey on theair? was the writers next question. Oh, yes, smiled the new convert toexercise. I think it must come from mybreath. Then youve been taking a few drinks? I have to w^hen I bowl, was the promptconfession. After I have been at it a fewminutes I find my heart complaining, for Ihave a weak heart. A drink of whiskeyevery fifteen or twenty minutes, and I goright through with my bowling, and I feelquite happy. How do you feel now? A bit tired. The exercise is beginning totell on me, now, and I think I am ready forbed.
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Stimulant Exercises 151 This man heard, with patent astonishment,the writers opinion that, if he really had aweak heart, he would derive vastly morebenefit from the physicians care than fromthe bartenders, and that alcohol and exercisecombined only made a weak heart weaker. *^What you feel, right now, the writercontinued, is undoubtedly some muscularfatigue and much more reaction from alcohol.Go to your physician, and if, after examiningyou, he approves of exercise for you, takeup some systematized course of variedexercises, and leave alcohol wholly out ofyour scheme. Alcohol and exercise are likeoil and water; they do not mix, and the manwho wont leave alcohol alone must give uphope of benefit from gymnastic work. That man walked away plainly uncon-vinced, but he soon after gave up—exercise.Later, in the parlance of the street, he gaveup a considerable sum of money to themanagement of one of the well-known curesfor inebriety. Fortunately, advice against the use of al- 152 Stimulant

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