Scientific Athletics

to a s1ttmg pD'tur . Reaain the original po 1tion, and concurrently ·tiffen the limb . Graduate th bar– b 11 o that ffre r petition may im·o!Y ad quat exer– tion at ea h practic . EXER r E 7. Li flat upon the back, int rla th finger behind th head, and ten e the 1 gs o that the mu cl s (va tu: intemu and extern,us), i tuat d immediat ly abov the kn , will ach . Then lowly as um a itting attitud , and maintain th upp r portion of the body rigid and the back hollowed. ~ hould thi prove to trenuou all viat th ·train by xtending the arm· forward. Ob en- a numb r of r p tition consi tent with the bodily ondition. Th ben fits cleriv d from this x rc1 are many. Kot only do it a celerat the dev lopment of num rou flaccid mu 1 ·, particularly tho e locat d in the r gion of th abdom n and back. but i al o ingularly a lapted Exercise 7, 51