Word: chests
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...propose to take a "back seat" if they can help it. Many of them already give promise of being exceptionally good oarsmen, and they are willing to work. They have already and intend in the future to practice running at "hare and hounds," and will exercise on the chest weights, Indian clubs, dumb bells, etc. Besides all this they take a two or three mile run every day when the weather will permit...
Besides rowing in the tank the candidates will exercise on the chest-weights, with Indian clubs and dumb-bells, and take a short run each...
...first and most marked changes produced upon the physique by the practice of athletics are shown in the weight, girth of chest, hips, thighs and arms, in breadth of shoulders and in the increased strength of all parts of the body, while the girth of the neck, waist and calves, the depth of chest and abdomen, the breadth of neck, waist and hips seem to respond more slowly. The total height is slightly increased, through increase in length of the lower extremities, but the sitting height and girth of head, knees, instep, waist and the length of upper...
...masses in some of our college may be inferred from a single illustration taken from the records at Harvard University. In the year 1880, seven hundred and seventy-six men were physically examined. The strongest man out of this number showed in strength of lungs, back, legs, chest and arms, a grand total of 675.2. At the close of the summer term of the present year, the highest strength test recorded was 1272.8 and there were over two hundred men in college whose total strength test surpassed the highest test of 1880. This general gymnasium work is, therefore, reducing...
...trampling struggle for supremacy, few muscles of the body are inactive. In spite of the accidents attending this game, as at present played, no sport affords better opportunity for vigorous training. Though rowing contributes largely to the development of the back and legs, and slightly to the arms and chest, to the gymnasium and foot-ball training we must attribute much of the superb muscular development of rowing...