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Home Gymnastics for Young and Old (1892)

Hoffmann, Prof. · George Routledge and Sons, Limited (London) · leaf 120

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PULLEY-WEIGHT APPARATUS EXERCISES. 109 Fig. 35. Let the arms go back as far as possible, so as to draw the shoulder-blades together. Then bring the arms forward to the position shown by the dotted lines, the cords passing over the shoulders, one on each side of the head. … and exhale as you bring them together again. Repeat ad /ebitum. This it will be seen is the converse or comple- ment of Exercise AA. The main movement is the same, but the effect is different. In the former case the pull of the machine tended to draw the arms forward, so that the hard work of the…

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