How to Get Strong and How to Stay So (1899)/Appendix 2

APPENDIX II.

Showing the average state of the growth and development of the same number of men (two hundred) after having practised in the gymnasium half an hour a day four times a week, for a period of six months, under Dr. Sargent.
Height 5 ft. 8¼ in. 68.254 in,
Weight 137 lbs. 137.123 lbs.
Chest (inflated) 36¼ in. 36.829 in.
Chest (contracted) 33 in. 33.206 in.
Forearm 10¾ in. 10.760 in.
Upper arm (flexed) 12 in. 11.903 in.
Shoulders (width) 16¼ in. 16.260
Hips 33¾ in. 33.875 in.
Thigh 21 in. 20.964 in.
Calf 13¼ in. 13.232 in.

In this case the apparatus used was light dumb-bells, 2½ lbs.; Indian clubs, 3½ lbs.; pulley-weights, from 10 to 15 lbs.