Word: chests
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...chestweights are described, comprising sixty-seven exercises, under each of which is an account of the position, movement, and muscles brought into play and spaces for perscriptions as to weights, times, and rate per minute. The exercises on the treadle, bridle, stirrup, traveling parallels, inclined planes, lifting machine, chest developer and expander, traveling bar, finger machine, giant pulley, high and low pulleys, and nineteen other machines are described in the same complete manner. Each exercise is illustrated. The great value of the book lies in its adaptability to every individual pecuriarity. When filled out by Dr. Sargent's system...
...difficulty in keeping the button against the pin at both ends of the stroke an important principle in watermanship. Rowing at Cambridge has for sixteen years been under the charge of Mr. Herbert Rhodes. The principles of his system are: The hands must shoot away smartly from the chest; as they release the body for the swing which actually (though not theoretically) begins before the arms are perfectly straight. In any case the swing begins before the slide and carries the slide forward with it, both being slow and steady, especially the slide, and the forward movement both of slide...
...present for a strong team seems good, though nothing definite can be ascertained till the men go to work on Holmes field. As the cage is used most of the afternoon by the 'varsity candidates, and men training with Mr. Clarkson, the freshmen take light general exercise with the chest weights, bumb-bells, vaulting bars, and then have a short run. Churchill and Hill, candidates for pitcher, under the instruction of Mr. Clarkson have made very considerable progress, and Bell's strained shoulder is much better, so that the prospects for a battery are brightening...
Last evening a party of chess players from the Chest and Whist Club, at the invitation of the Boston Chess Club, visited their rooms in Pemterton square, and tried their strength in simultaneous games against Mr. Prentis Cummings, one of the strongest of Boston's players...
...candidates go through a regular daily routine of gymnasium work, consisting of dumb-bells, chest-weights and rowing machines, followed by a run of three or four miles...