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Title: Physical training for business men; basic rules and simple exercises for gaining assured control of the physical self
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Hancock, Harrie Irving, 1868-1922
Subjects: Physical education and training
Publisher: New York and London, G.P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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8 Drill, with Breathing Study time extending his arms overhead. Next hebends the trunk forward to half bend, orlower, at the same time swinging his armsdownward and thrusting his hands betweenand to the rear of his legs in the exact posi-tion shown. Then the arms are swung upover the head and the body bent backward.This should be performed, in the beginning,six or eight times; later on the numbershould be increased to twelve or fourteen. At the outset this movement should beexecuted slowly, but after two or threemornings the speed should be increasedsomewhat, though never to the extent ofmaking it a positively brisk movement. Thebreath should be inhaled on the downwardmovement, exhaled on the return to erectposition and the bend backward. Thereshould be no pause between return to erect-ness and the bend backward. Only a little study of the illustration will beneeded to make plain the execution of theexercise depicted in Figure Number Fifteen.The first phase is performed by closing the
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Fig. 14—Side Straddle and Trunk Bend. 109 Drill, with Breathing Study iii fists and flexing the arms over the shoulders,as shown, with the knuckles to the rear. Atthe instant of doing this step to the right onthe right foot. Next lunge sideward to theright as shown and extend the arms sideward,knuckles still to the rear. Return to begin-ning position, again flexing the arms over theshoulders as before. Repeat three times tothe right, then perform the same movementfour times to the left. Then perform, inalternation, four times to either side, breath-ing naturally but deeply all the time. Apart from the muscular work involvedthis complete movement is a fine energizerof the circulation of the blood. The greaterthe speed, of course the more vigorousbecomes the pulsing of the blood through thearteries. Yet excessive speed of movementis not called for. After he has accustomedhimself to this exercise the student will learnfor himself the rate of speed from which bestresults may be obtained

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