The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-31
Hen lit as much as any other one can
VIII duncan;
He has the strength of an entire barrack,
Has narruch.

Darroch could lift tifty-six pound weight
at arms length. But Darroch was short arm
ed for his height, and us | remember him,
muscle-bound man Few men can expect by
any amount of training and practice to acquire
the power OF lifting such weight as iifty-SiX
pounds at arms length. Thirty pounds would
be very fair arms length lift for men of
average strength; and even that would require
exercise and training.
Very good exercise in fling can be obtained
without special apparatus rs lifting chairs in
diiferant ways Thus the chair may be lifted
at arms length by front rung grasped
knucbeS upwards or knuckles downwards; or
hv the low er end of a front leg-the back be-
ing in every case brought to vertical position,
aud SO maitained while the lift lasts. Strength
may be tested either by the weight of the chair
lifted, or by the time during which the Chair is
held ont. 1t is noteworthy that often the man
who can lift the heaviest chair at
arms length, in some peculiar way, may
be surpassed by another when the
mode OF lifting is altered And again,
those who lift the heaviest weights in these
ways are not always those who can maintain
their hold longest Resolution comes in as
factor in the last named test One will often
see great ana Suoug but easy-going man lift
out at arms length a weight which another
cannot bring for moment to that position,
who yet will not hold out half that weight for
half the time ut which ii will be held ont by
the weaker. whose reSolute viii enables him
to sustain his hold to the very last.
In all these forms OF hitting
the arms are chiefly considered.
Yet in reality the lower limbs
have their work to do, not only in sustaining
the extra weight, hut IN sustaining also the
weight of the body. II is only in exercises
which require the body to be lifted from the
ground that the legs get no work. such eXer-
cises are among the SeyereSt tests of strength,
because they reverse the usual order OF things,
Toa SlOth accustomed always 10 have its weight
suspended. such exercises would come natural
Is 10 men they involve always a certain extra
amount Of ditfeultya compared with exercises
in which the sustaining power of the legs IS
called into action. ] need not touch on icatS
in which the body is merely raised from the
ground a certain number oftimcs 10y the action
of both arms or of one arm only, or from q sim
gle finger as can readily be done after Suti-
Cicnt practice. do not indeed know what is
actually the record for tcats Of this sort.
But for the actual lifting power OF the arms, l
know o. NO feat ever accomplished which has
surpassed one which Nathalie, the lady men-
toned above was in the constant habit OF per-
forming. She could extend her body from the
horizontal bar supported only by one hand
k1asping the bar, knuckles downward then
a. far the feat was not uncommou) she could
put the other hand behind her and take the
bar with it holding the body horizontal by
that hand. Earini told Charles Reade that he
had never met with male athlete who could
do this yet added Reade, ''it was not knack (;