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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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It is also pointed out that instructionsin regard to breathing and hygiene mustbe thoroughly understood and followed.Stress is laid on the importance of theproper use of the lungs in connectionwith all forms of athletics, and it is sug- gested that no man can be an athletein the full sense of the term unless heknows the theor) and the practice of in-halation and exhalation. I (ere is a nugget of Army wisdom thateverybody interested in the developmentof the body would do well to ponder:The mind must be put into the workand the will-power be concentrated uponthe exercises, that the muscles may feelthe strain. This is the fundamentalprinciple of successful physical training.Indeed it is, or nearly so. It may beadded that Uncle Sams fighters arecarefully taught the value of this re-sistance and, it is to be hoped, profitby it. The first portion, or period, of theArmy athletic year is devoted to instruc-tion in calisthenics, the use of the dumb-bell, bar-bell and Indian club; rifle drills
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Sergeant W. Lynch, of the Coast Artillery Corps, Who isthe Holder of Many All-Round Records and thePossessor of Dozens of Trophies Which AttestHis Athletic Ability 12 PHYSICAL CULTURE

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