Training, in Theory and PracticeMacmillan and Company, 1874 - 252 páginas |
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Página 4 - ... according to the author, being "to put the body, with extreme and exceptional care, under the influence of all the agents which promote its health and strength, in order to enable it to meet extreme and exceptional demands upon its energies.
Página 214 - At 10 knots per hour for the speed of the ship the eddy resistance is one pound avoirdupois per square foot of augmented surface, and varies for other speeds as the square of the speed.
Página 14 - Exercise, such the eods which it accomplishes, and such the manner of their accomplishment; namely, the destruct1on of the tissues, the hastening of the decay and death of every part coming within its influence ; but also the speedy removal of all waste, and the hastening forward of fresh material for its replacement; and in doing this it attains three distinct but co-relative results. 1. It increases the size and power of the voluntary muscles employed. 2. It increases the functional capacity of...
Página 7 - ... place of the living/ Thus there is going on a continuous process of decay and death among the individual atoms which make up each tissue. Each atom preserves its vitality for a limited space only, is then separated from the tissue of which it has formed a part, and is resolved into its inorganic elements, to be in due course eliminated from the body by the organs of excretion. These processes are greatly influenced by the activity of the bodily functions. Every operation of the muscles or nerves...
Página 34 - ... of physical exertion in which men can be engaged ; not only on account of the rapidity of the inspirations and expirations, not only from the fact that these are not regulated by the natural action of the lungs themselves, but by the artificial movements of the exercise...
Página 214 - Y., above mentioned. [In algebraical symbols, let ds denote the area of a small portion of the ship's skin, q the ratio which the velocity of gliding of the water over that portion bears to the speed of the ship...
Página 27 - Large persons with powerful muscles, but with little endurance, are not able to accomplish as much as wiry small ones, whose powers of endurance have been developed by gradual training. " A man of good physical capacity may be trained so that the voluntary muscles of his arms and chest would be powerfully developed with a contractile force proportionate to their size, and yet his respiratory power shall be so disproportionate that he could not run a hundred yards without gasping...
Página 217 - Looking at all these results, and considering that the most healthy life is that of a man engaged in manual labour in the free air, and that the daily work will probably average from 250 to 350 tons lifted 1 foot, we can perhaps say, as an approximation, that every healthy man ought, if possible, to take a daily amount of exercise in some way, which shall not be less than 150 tons lifted 1 foot.
Página 19 - The part of the body which receives the smallest share of the exercise in rowing is the chest," he says; "it has little or no employment in the muscular effort required for the propulsion of the boat ; and this is impressively evident in the results. Not only does the chest make no advance in development in this exercise, but, if it be exclusively practised, an absolutely depressing effect is...