Identifier: physicalculture201908macf (find matches)
Title: Physical culture
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: MacFadden, Bernarr Aldolphus, 1858-
Subjects: Physical education and training
Publisher: New York : Physical Culture Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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were unfavorable and fromchildhood up I was always delicate,inheriting the condition of my father,who died of consumption at the age offorty-two. I am not of a lohg-livedfamily, and at fifty there was no prom-ise that I could ever obtain the health,muscularity, strength and elasticity ofbody which I now possess, and I repeatthat the same success is possible to anyone who will faithfully and persistentlypractice the methods by which it hasbeen obtained. These alternate contractions and re-laxations are really a kind of musclepumping exercise, with the beneficialeffects as stated. If practiced system-atically and persistently, they will callinto action every large muscle of thebody, bringing to you the greatestriches the world can offer—health,strength and bodily elasticity—withoutexpense, with less exertion, and undermore comfortable circumstances thanany system of physical culture yet pre-sented to the world. This is the secretof a long life and the only possibleFountain of Youth.
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Physical Culture that is financially as well as physically profitable PHYSICAL CULTURE DEVOTED TO HEALTH, STRENGTH, VITALITY, MUSCU-LAR DEVELOPMENT, AND THE CARE OF THE BODY Published by Physical Culture Publishing Company, Inc., Bernarr Macfadden, President,S. W. Haines, Secretary and Treasurer, 24 E. 22D St., New York City. Vol. XX September, 1908 No. 3

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