How to Get Strong and How to Stay So
William Blaikie, a New York lawyer who had rowed for Harvard and walked from Boston to New York in four and a half days, published How to Get Strong and How to Stay So in 1879, and it went through many printings. He argues that most Americans, boys and girls, clerks and women alike, grow up half-built for want of daily exercise, surveys what a home gymnasium and a school gymnasium might do, reports results from brief systematic training, and devotes a long chapter to special exercises for every muscle group, with illustrations. Chapters on firemen and police, on work for the fleshy and the thin and the old, and appendices complete the book. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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How to Get Strong and How to Stay So by William Blaikie can be read online on Vinteuil, directly in your browser. The first chapter is free for everyone; the complete book is included in Vinteuil Reading ($4.99/month or $39.99/year) or yours forever for $2.99.
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Yes. How to Get Strong and How to Stay So by William Blaikie is a public-domain work. Vinteuil offers a carefully prepared digital edition made for comfortable reading on screen.
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About 4 h 26 min of reading, at an average reading pace. Your place is saved automatically when you are signed in, so you can read in several sittings and on several devices.
What kind of book is How to Get Strong and How to Stay So?
How to Get Strong and How to Stay So by William Blaikie is filed under "Classics" in the Vinteuil library.
