The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-19

WRITTEN FOR fHD SUNDAY REPuBLIc
Everything in this world depends on mo-
don.
Motion l. life
Your muscles and the rest Of your body
are like the stars and planets. wind and
tide in this respect
Their whole value lies in what kind OF
motion they can perform.
When engineers describe engines. water
mower or any other form OF laoor-proouc-
ing motion they do 30 by telling how many
foot pounds tho force can lift or move.
There is big difference between too..
pounds" and pounds Pounds are
dead weight
"Foot-pounds" are moving weights.
The muscle that oan lift 100 pounds one
foot is not nearly as useful as the muscle
that can lift twenty-five pounds eight feet
One is doing only 100 foot-pounds' worth
Of work. while tho other muscle is doing 300
foot-pounds' worth
This is the frst rule.
Now there Ii . second onA
Time enters into the matter.
euppose one boy has muscles that will
lift ten pounds one foot In one second
Now suppose another boy has muscles
that will lift only nve pounds ono foot but
that will do it in q quarter Of second.
Perhaps most persons would say the first
boy il twice as strong as the second boy
because he can lift twice as much.
But what Is strengthl
1t Is tho power 10 accomplish certain
things In q certain time.
The nrst boy lifts ten toot-pounds in ono
second, but the second boy could LIT twen-
" foot-pounds in thar one second
WHY INSTRUCTORS OPPOSE
USE OF HEAVY WEIGHTS
This tells the whole story Of tie COM
parative values OF slow muscles and quick
muscles
It explains why athletic instructors don't
want boys to practice with heaYy dumb
bells or other weightk
The perfect muscle IN the one that oan
apply its entire strength. whatever It Il, in
the shortest possible time
Therefore. the athlete worthy OF the name
cannot afford to have his muscles developed
% that he 10 muscle-bound-
The muscle-bound man IL like . ship
whose rigging IL made Of ropes SO huge
that they will not move through the tackle
hlocks.
Such q ship would b Just a. badly Of,
As II its ropes were 80 thin and weak that
they would break under the FIRST strain
The whole body IL like q ship. other
engine full Of such ropes all running back
and forth over the pulley-blocks OF bones
! and joints
knotted that they will not move In the
swiftness Of q thought, the body o. Ill bal
anced.
We can follow out ths simils Of . ship
stu further.
The ship must not only have etout rig
ging; its hull. decks, spars and other parts
must be in harmony.
A man with big arms and weak legs Is
like . ship with big masts and q weak
keel.
A rerson with strong arms and legs and
weak lungs Is as q ship with fins spars ant
hull. but with poor boilers that canno,
drive It
An athlete with great bicspA muscles
MAGNIFICENT thighs and calves and q POO,
chest is like q ship with rusty machinery.
II It ever gets near rocks. all tho hne
hull will not save it
And many hundreds Of athletes die
every year from organic diseases because
they never learned that muscles alone dc
not mean health, or even true strength.
Never forget that the wonderful power
that made this world made nothing with
Your muscles are only the outside part o,
the machinery.
LARGO MUSCLES NOT
( NECESSARILY STRONG ONDA
You wouldn't think much Of q watch TIA
Mas pretty hands and handsome dial and
q hne case II 1t had cheap works tha
wouldn't make those pretty hands point t
the right time every second.
Wen. the pes1on with big muscles snt