The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1908-04-16
GINNING" AND SIMPLE CHEST
ExERcisE-sURpRisEs or tx.
ANIMATION TEeT3.
BIG CHESTS AT THE OPERA
Deep Breathing Secret Of Physical
Power-why Athletss Should
Breathe Through The
Nostriie.
nY ALeERT PAYsoN TERHuNE.

BullQinGs etc-l
Probably nine boys out Of ten who
read this can chin themselves. The
tenth boy thinks be can't. But he can
81 he viii practice the exercises L give
in these lessons To chin yourself you
DO not absolutely need a trapeze or a
ladder. You can do & on the wooden
ledge over the doorway OF your room
The door itself must. OF course. be
open when you do this. and yoB must
make sure beforehand that The wooden
support Is sound If you are no tall
enough 60 reach the ton OF the door
way reach &C. BIZ standing on a stool OF
chair Then kick the chair away and
hans BY your arms Not al full arms
length. however. That strains che
muscles without strengthening them.
The arms should be slightly bent as
should the legs. ever muscle tense.
Draw yourself up By your arm mus
cles nnui your chin Sc ca a level with
your hands. Then slowly lower your
self until your arms are almost
sJraight. 10 lowering yourself do not
relax any OF the body muscles
merely relax such arm muscles as
viii lower the body the required dis
lance. while il IS best 20 lower ones
self until the arms are nearly straight,
they should not De 60 straight that the
strain Of holding up the body by the
muscles Of the arms as well as OF the
fingers is relaxed Repeat this chin.
ming process. Try g. three times the
FIRST day. Increasing by one every a.
tornate day untl you bging the mum
Der up 70 ten. Don't try 70 do Il often
er than ten times a day.
The echinnirs" Strength Test.
! was once one o. a dozen candi
dates for the crew at one o. the bsg
universities. who we're sent 10 a IA.
nous physical Instructor 10 be ex.
amined as 10 their physical fitness 20
undertake such work. Among the can.
didates we're two whose utter contrast
10 each ether interested me. One was
ove six feet tail. ~ years old and
weighed IFS stripped, At FIRST glance
be seemed The ideal athlete The other
was a dvprnsh fellow. about i've feet
two inches On height weighing perhaps
l28. with one shoulder higher than the
other. Tho ittle fellow was told By
tht instructor 20 chin himself as
many times rs possible TO the amaze
mcnt al an of us. be chinned" him
self - times with perfect ease. But
IN nearly every other strength test he
failed utterly. and proved himself
about IS 90 for a crew man as a threw
legeed horse would be- TOR a race, The
blE fellows tau came next he
srsaped the bar and hung there dan.
Cling. uaahie 10 ralsa his body six
inches but In every other test be was
successful. and rowc8 stroke in the
freshman Crew She following spring
This FooH 60 show mat inability 20
chin ono's self 90 no siga ~ weakness
Such inability merely shows that a
oertsiu sea uf muscles has not yet
been trained and that there Is a lack
- coordination between the various
groups OF muscles such lack viii
uoo be rccuacd by faithful practice
81 the exercises ] am describing
Simple Chest Developer.
Hore O. a good exercise for eulavg
lnE The chest; Stand u your open
doorway With a hand on each side IL
the iamh The hands should be open.
che palms pressing either SIDE of The
iamh 81 about the height OF the shoui
der Holding the hands thus. take a
step backward. thea Walk forward
through the doorway. Toa can. Of
rpurse. SO only two or three feet be-
yond. as your hands are sun on the
door iamb Then step back again and
repeat this exercise 20 times. lncrcas
ing L hy two a day until yon get Il up
90 So. You wGl az 6sce feel tho mus
cloa Of the upper arm respond Co this
exercise. and the chest muscles viii
respond almost a. rapidly. Increasing
the girth OF tho chest more rapidly
than BY almost any other exercise 4
know OF
The above feat may seem ahsurdly
easy. hut d ls nonc Tho less bcnoaclsl
Now q word Az 10 breathing Z
touched on this In my last article but
a 90 a subject OF which much more
might be written breathing g. the
mos. important factor az athletics and
indeed OF life itself And yet not one
man IN n hundred knows hos to
breathe
Bia Chests az Grand Opera.
Did you ever 90 60 tho operaq /
mean Grand opera. where the finest
singers Ia the world are heard n yoa
have you must have noticed that the
mon and women ALIKE dave chests
that would 90 credit 10 priEe fighters
Now. this not due 90 singing. though
singing O. a good thing Cor ho lungs
4 IS because these artists know how
"a breathe
The average man knows no moro
about breathing real breaihinE that
be knows about nyine. Ho breefhes
OF course. Il q a habit u u noocs
sary 10 % 80 IN order 10 live nut be