Sound Bodies For Our Boys And Girls PDF Download

Excerpt from Sound Bodies for Our Boys and Girls A Little book published awhile ago, called "How to Get Strong, and How to Stay So," which urged the need and ease of physical culture on the public at large, has been widely and favorably received, both in this country and in Europe. Many newspapers - religious and secular - have urged that some of the suggestions therein be embodied in a manual arranged especially for school use. The design of the present manual is to meet that demand. Safe and simple exercises are shown. Many of these are familiar to gymnasts and athletes, but are not (nor is the effect of them) known to most boys and girls. Practised daily, they will aid in building better bodies. Their effect on the mind will also be favorable. For a sensible education of the body causes the blood-making machinery to make good blood instead of poor. This good blood is sent to the brain, and fits that organ to do more and better work, without risk, than it can do when fed by a poor article. The heart, the lungs, and all the other vital organs, are also likely to be kept healthy and vigorous, from being supplied with this good blood, and by a rational, use of the muscles daily, yet without overdoing them. One who is trained in this way will safely pass the overwork of the brain and nerves which to-day breaks down so many useful, but physically untrained, men and women, while they should still be in their prime, until nervous exhaustion has become a disorder familiar to almost every physician in the land. The aim has been to leave no muscle undeveloped, but to call attention to a few exercises for each part of each limb, and all parts of the body. They are free from risk, are not severe enough to overdo, and can be learned almost in a moment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.