The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 313
lking tothe extent of at least twenty miles per day, and of suchspecial exertion as may call into action the set of musclesupon which the resnlt of the strife will chiefly depend. The result of the whole train-ing is, that the muscular systemgains in development, so that themuscles are rendered… … muscles are enlarged, and the muscles appear more promi-nently than before. It is not a process which even one whohad before been trained would undergo again for pleasure only,since it demands much self- denial in all, and in some iseffected with difficulty, and felt most severely. It is, moreover,…
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