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How to Get Strong and How to Stay So

by William Blaikie

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Appendix II

Showing the average state of the growth and development of the same number of men (200) after having practised in the Bowdoin Gymnasium half an hour a day four times a week, for a period of six months, under Dr. Sargent.

Height5 ft. 81/4 in.68.254 in.
Weight137 lbs.137.123 lbs.
Chest (inflated)363/4 in.36.829 in.
Chest (contracted)33 in.33.206 in.
Forearm103/4 in.10.760 in.
Upper arm (flexed)12 in.11.903 in.
Shoulders (width)161/4 in.16.260 in.
Hips333/4 in.33.875 in.
Thigh21 in.20.964 in.
Calf131/4 in.13.232 in.

In this case the apparatus used was light dumb-bells, 2½ lbs.; Indian clubs, 3½ lbs.; pulley-weights, from 10 to 15 lbs.

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