Strength and How to Obtain It

Strength and How to Obtain It

In writing this book I have taken it as a commonplace that everyoneman, woman, and childwants to be strong. Without strengthand by strength I mean health, vitality, and a general sense of physical well-beinglife is but a gloomy business. Wealth, talent, ambition, the love and affection of friends, the pleasure derived from doing good to those about one, all these things may afford some consolation for being deprived of lifes chief blessing, but they can never make up for it. But, I am constantly being asked, it is all very well for you to say this, and everyone of sense agrees with you; the point is, can we obtain this much-prized blessing? In the vast majority of cases I can say unhesitatingly Yes. You can all be strong, all enjoy the heritage which was intended for you. Not all to the same extent, perhaps. Those who are afflicted with some hereditary disease, who may have unsound organs handed down to them, cannot reasonably expect to get such results as their more fortunate brethren. Still, even they need not despair; even if their condition be such as to put out of the question any such thing as athletics, they can, at all events, attain to such a condition as will permit of their enjoying life, and render them fit to carry on their work without difficulty. And after all, those who wish to be strong for this reason are innumerable. It is only the young and vigorous who desire to excel in athletic pastimes, but the middle-aged and elderly, the delicate women and young children, who yearn for health are countless. I claim that by carefully following out my system, as set out in the following pages, and fully illustrated in the Anatomical Chart at the end of the volume, these results may be attained. It is nearly two years since the first edition of Strength and How to Obtain it was published, and its success has been very gratifying to me. It plainly demonstrates that the people of my adopted country are gradually beginning to understand and appreciate what is meant by physical culture, and that my ideas are steadily taking root in productive ground. I am, therefore, encouraged to bring out a new edition of the book, which, I trust, will be an improvement upon its predecessor. Several chapters have been added and a few inaccuracies and ambiguities remedied, and I trust the book in its new form will find favour with my readers. I wish to draw particular attention to chapters V. and VIII., in which I refer to My Grip Dumb-bell and to Physical Culture for Women. There are various other additions to which I need not refer here. Sufficient to say that during the past eighteen months I have learned much, and that so far as lies in my power I have endeavoured to give the benefit of such knowledge as I have acquired to all who believe with me that the cultivation of the body is a sacred and imperative duty. EUGEN SANDOW. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 65987
Author: Sandow, Eugen
Release Date: Aug 3, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English