Physical training for business men; basic rules and simple exercises for gaining assured control of the physical self (1917) (14761963196)

Identifier: physicaltraining01hanc (find matches)
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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o wisely with regular sleep of less thanseven hours in the twenty-four. Eight hoursfurnishes the more commonly accepted stand-ard. Nine hours would be excessive for mostnormal men, though not for all. Should thereappear to be, for several consecutive days,a real bodily demand for more than ninehours of sleep in the twenty-four, then un-doubtedly the case belongs to the physician,not to the trainer. Now let us consider the exercise depictedin Figure Number Sixteen. The startingposition is not shown, as it consists of stand-ing erect with hands at sides. From thisposition take a long stride forward with theright leg, and at the same time flex the armswith the elbows out sideways and the closedfists over the shoulders, knuckles upward.From this attitude face abruptly to the left,pivoting on both heels, and strike the armsout to either side vigorously to a horizontalposition, with the knuckles down. In thisposition the knees are bent as shown. In-stantly recover to position of the forward
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Fig. 17—Knee Bend and Thigh Clasp. 125 Drill, with Breathing Study 127 stride with the right leg with arms flexed andfists over shoulders. Bring the right footback beside the left and return to originalposition with hands at sides. Repeat this with the difference that theforward stride is made with the left leg,followed by facing to the right, at the sametime bending the knees and striking outsideways with both arms. Perform the move-ments several times, first to right and then toleft. In bending the knees it is necessarythat they be well bent, the weight resting onthe full foot after the pivot on the heels. At the outset there should not be too manyrepetitions of this exercise, but the numberin a given bout may be very gradually in-creased at the readers discretion. In thecase of these movements, as with some othersets, the number of times of performanceshould be fewer in the before-bedtime boutthan in the morning drill. It is decidedly astimulating exercise as well as being one th