How to Get Strong and How to Stay So (1899)/Appendix 1

APPENDIX I.

Showing the average state of the development of two hundred men upon entering the gymnasium.

Age 18.3 years.
Height 5 ft. 8 in. 67.974 in.
Weight 135 lbs. 134.981 lbs.
Chest (inflated) 35 in. 35.067 in.
Chest (contracted) 32¼ in. 32.39 in.
Forearm 10 in. 10.03 in.
Upper arm (flexed) 11 in. 10.960 in.
Shoulders (width) 15½ in. 15.602 in.
Hips 31½ in. 31.475 in.
Thigh 19½ in. 19.612 in.
Calf 12⅓ in. 12.729 in.