A System of Physical Education: Theoretical and PracticalClarendon Press, 1869 - 516 pagine |
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“A” System of Physical Education Theoretical and Practical Archibald Maclaren Visualizzazione completa - 1869 |
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ACTION AND POSITION April 30 Balliol College beam bending the arms chest cloth COURSE COURSE III COURSE IV descend yielding distance eighth exercise elongate the trunk exer extend fcap fifth exercise grasp the bar grasp the pole ground gymnasium gymnastic half reach hand and foot HAND OVER HAND hands at once inches instructor knees and elongate ladder leading hand learner left bar left following left foot forward left hand leading lift both feet lift the right limbs in position lower limbs lower the body machine movement muscles pass Position of attention preceding exercise press strongly quit the grasp raise the left Raise the right reach and grasp rear Repeat rest right and left right foot RIGHT HAND LEADING right or left rise rope round the bar Second Series slip the leading slip the right spar step supporting hand Third Series toes pointed trapezium trunk and lower upper limbs vault
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Pagina 22 - Yes, it is health rather than strength that is the great requirement of modern men at modern occupations; it is not the power to travel great distances, carry great burdens, lift great weights, or overcome great material obstructions; it is simply that condition of body, and that amount of vital capacity, which shall enable each man in his place to pursue his calling, and work on in his working life, with the greatest amount of comfort to himself and usefulness to his fellow-men.
Pagina 72 - The muscular additions to the arms and shoulders and the expansion of the chest were so great as to have absolutely a ludicrous and embarrassing result; for before the fourth month several of the men could not get into their uniforms, jackets, and tunics without assistance; and when they had got them on, they could not get them to meet down the middle by a hand's breadth. In a month more they could not get into them at all, and new clothing had to be procured, pending the arrival of which the men...
Pagina 70 - They ranged between nineteen and twenty-nine yeais of age, between five feet five inches and six feet in height, between nine stone two pounds and twelve stone six pounds in weight, and had seen from two to twelve years service. I confess I felt greatly discomfited at the appearance of this detachment, so different in every physical attribute ; I perceived the difficulty, the very great difficulty, of working them in the same squad at the same exercises ; and the unfitness of some of them for a duty...
Pagina 81 - ... muscles of the trunk in unremitting contraction, those of the limbs in effortless relaxation. Now, one of the most important of the laws which govern muscular action is, that it shall be exerted but for a limited continuous space, and that, unless the relaxation of the muscles shortly follows upon their contraction, fatigue will arise as readily, and to as great an extent, from want of this necessary interruption to contraction as from extent of effort And, strictly speaking, this stiffness both...
Pagina 50 - ... foundation, and is, I believe, more than any other single cause, the influence to which can be attributed the present unhappy state of British industry. British trades-unions embrace nearly 2,000,000 members. The greater part of this army of organized labor has adopted a false economic theory. They hold that there is a given amount of work to be done in Great Britain, and that, if the day's output of the individual worker is decreased, the result will be an increase in the aggregate number of...
Pagina 85 - ... one head, under the single designation of Practical Gymnastics. The evil which naturally and inevitably springs from this want of arrangement is the undue importance which it gives to all exercises of a merely practically useful character, above those whose object is the training and strengthening of the body. This is emphatically the case in the earlier stages of the practice, where the whole attention of the instructor should be devoted to the giving, and the whole effort of the learner should...
Pagina 70 - The first detachment of non-commissioned officers, twelve in number, sent to me to qualify as Instructors for the Army were selected from all branches of the service. They ranged between nineteen and twentynine years of age, between five feet five inches and six feet in height, between nine stone two pounds and twelve stone six pounds in weight, and had seen from two to twelve years
Pagina 14 - Let no one undervalue this source of information : it gives the seal to all experimental knowledge ; it confirms or refutes all theories. This was the lamp which guided the ancients in the selection of the exercises which formed their system of bodily training. They observed that the strength of the body, or of any part of the body, was in relation to its muscular development, and that this development followed upon, and was in relation to, its activity or employment. They did not know that man's...
Pagina 22 - Health is the uniform and regular performance of all the functions of the body, arising from the harmonious action of all its parts,' — a physical condition implying that all are sound, well-fitting, and well-matched.