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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Photograph No* 2. Exercise No. I (continued). Whilebringing the head back, be sore to resist the movement all thetime with the strength of the arms. Repeat the exercise severaltimes until the muscles of neck are thoroughly tired. This givesthe muscles at the back of the neck, partially surrounding theupper part of the spinal column, very vigorous exercise. 152 PHYSICAL CULTURE
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Photograph No. 3. Exercise No. 2. Assume positionshown in above photograph, interlacing fingers under the kneesof both legs. Now raise upward, throwing the head up andback, and pulling strongly (see next photograph). The woman with the large, thick, welldeveloped neck, is usually a strong speci-men of womanhood. It does not alwaysindicate that these persons have giventhis particular part of the body a largeamount of exercise. They may merelyhave inherited great vitality and thelarge neck has been one of the signs thatindicate their general physical condition. PROFESSIONAL WRESTLERS ALWAYSPOWERFUL HEN Among the professional wrestlers youwill find some of the strongest men ofthe world. They are powerful, hardyspecimens of human efficiency from aphysical standpoint. It might be al- lowable to say that near-ly every athlete of thistype is as strong as anox and as hardy as anoak tree. In practicallyevery case they havebeen made so by theirfavorite exercise. Wrest-lers use nearly all themus

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