How To Get Strong And How To Stay So

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"How to Get Strong and How to Stay So" is a fitness manual written by William Garden Blaikie, a Scottish author and minister, first published in 1879. Blaikie was an advocate for physical fitness and believed in the importance of exercise for overall health and well-being. The book is structured as a comprehensive guide to physical fitness, covering topics such as strength training, endurance exercises, nutrition, and general health advice. Blaikie provides detailed instructions on various exercises and workout routines, as well as tips for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. One of the central themes of the book is the idea that physical strength is attainable through disciplined training and proper nutrition. Blaikie emphasizes the importance of consistency and dedication in one's exercise regimen, as well as the need to listen to one's body and avoid overexertion. In addition to practical advice on exercise, Blaikie also discusses the psychological and spiritual benefits of physical fitness. He argues that regular exercise can improve mental clarity, boost mood, and enhance overall quality of life. While "How to Get Strong and How to Stay So" was written over a century ago, many of its principles and recommendations remain relevant today. The book reflects the enduring interest in physical fitness and the belief in the transformative power of exercise for both body and mind. Overall, "How to Get Strong and How to Stay So" is a timeless guide to achieving and maintaining physical fitness, written by a pioneer in the field of exercise science. It serves as a valuable resource for anyone seeking to improve their strength, endurance, and overall health through exercise.

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This 1883 fitness classic is one of the first books ever written on the subject of training for strength. It was the first book that many of our physical culture pioneers ever read on the subject and was the book that motivated a movement. A must have in your bodily conditioning library. "I owe a great deal to your writings, for they have been among the causes that made me realize the importance of proper bodily development." -Theodore Roosevelt, 1899 "Despite the number of similar books which have been placed before the public since "How to Get Strong' was written, this manual has remained a good seller in revised editions, and altogether more than sixty-five thousand copies have been sold. Mr. Blaikie who is now a well-known New York lawyer, is a Harvard graduate. As early as 1868 he made a record by walking from Boston to this city, a distance of two hundred and twenty-five miles, in four days and a half - an amateur walking record which remained unbroken for a decade." -Brooklyn Life, January 10, 1903 "Millions of our people pass their lives in cities and towns, and at work which keeps them nearly all day in-doors. Many hours are devoted for days and years, under careful teachers, and many millions of dollars are spent annually, in educating the mind and the moral nature. But the body is allowed to grow up all uneducated; indeed, often such a weak, shaky affair that it gets easily out of order, especially in middle and later life, and its owner is wholly unequal to tasks which would have proved easy to him, had he given it even a tithe of the education bestowed so generously in other directions. Not a few, to be sure, have the advantage in youth of years of active out-door life on a farm, and so lay up a store of vigor which stands them in good stead throughout a lifetime. But many, and especially those born and reared in towns and cities, have had no such training, or any equivalent, and so never have the developed lungs and muscles, the strong heart and vigorous digestion--in short, the improved tone and strength in all their vital organs--which any sensible plan of body-culture, followed up daily, would have secured. It does not matter so much whether we get vigor on the farm, the deck, the tow-path, or in the gymnasium, if we only get it. Fortunately, if not gotten in youth, when we are plastic and easily shaped, it may still be had, even far on in middle life, by judicious and systematic exercise, aimed first to bring up the weak and unused parts, and then by general work daily which shall maintain the equal development of the whole. "The aim here has been, not to write a profound treatise on gymnastics, and point out how to eventually reach great performance in this art, but rather in a way so plain and untechnical that even any intelligent boy or girl can readily understand it, to first give the reader a nudge to take better care of his body, and so of his health, and then to point out one way to do it. That there are a hundred other ways is cheerfully conceded. If anything said here should stir up some to vigorously take hold of, and faithfully follow up, either the plan here indicated or any one of these others, it cannot fail to bring them marked benefit, and so to gratify." -The Author. New York, July, 1883.

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