EXERCISE FOR MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 30 November 1901, Page 4

EXERCISE FOR MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT.

It is a common practice among young men to devote too much attention to the development of their chest and arms, to the neglect of other parts of their body. It is just as needful to practice exercises that will call into use the back and leg muscles and incidentally add strength to the spinal column. On of the first methods to accomplish this is to lie at full length on the floor, face down, stretching out the body, arm?, and legs as far as possible. Draw the arms back slowly, bending the elbows, ahd gradually raise the body clear from the floor, keeping it at all times in a horizontal position, with its entire weight bearing on the muscles of the arms and shoulders and the tips of the toes. In this position there is an actual strain on every muscle in the bodj\

About fifteen minutes of this exercise twice a day will prove greatly bene ficial.

To develop the abdominal muscles place the feet tightly together and bend the body as far forward as possible without bending the knees. Try this movement about twenty times before breakfast and as many times about an hour after dinner.

To add strength to the neck and spine, there is an exercise in which you will need the aid of your father or some other member of the family.

Lie on your back at full length, with every muscle in the body perfectly stiff. You will then be raised from the floor by the back of the head until brought to a standing position. This sort of exercise is calculated to strengthen the lcgi as well as the neck and spine. It will be of great benefit to anybody who will try it twenty or thirty times a day, morning and aft moon for about a month. Just a little about dieting. Athletes as a rule are not very par icular about what they e;tt as long as their food is well cooked and they get plenty of it. When I go in for training I am of course, more particular than usual, but on the whole I believe in eating when I am hungry. I always try to cat as regularly as possible, and I am careful to abstain from heavy pastry and green fruits. I eat very little meat in hot weather, sticking more to faimaceous foods. Never go to bed immediately after eating, but take a short walk in the op*n air. If these directions are fol'owed there need be no fear of indigestion or dyspepsia.