Old Strongman’s Routine

We are living in times that demand more and more of our brains and muscles, of our nerves and physical energy.
Only those who are strong, and know how to keep so, can stand the wear and tear.
It pays to stop once in a while to look over our machinery and oil the parts that need it.A due proportion of exercise is essential to the perfect working of the functions of the physical and mental man.
Good judgment, quick thought, self-control and willpower — so necessary in these busy days — cannot be retained for any length of time by anyone who does not pay proper attention to his physical condition; deplorable results will follow, either because of erroneous notions or sheer carelessness.Proper exercise causes the blood to circulate throughout the entire body nourishing all its parts; from the lack of exercise the body is unable to maintain its vigor, and the mind, whose health is dependent upon that of the body, is soon reduced to a condition of languor.
So many have written on the importance of physical exercise, that it would be unprofitable to reiterate statements that everybody has read over and over again and the truth of which all are willing to concede.
My purpose is a very practical one — to suggest a simple plan for exercise in the morning, which will take only ten or fifteen minutes, but whose practical and beneficial results have been demonstrated in my experience as an advisor and instructor in physical culture.
The exercises do not require any apparatus and can be taken in a room large enough for you to turn around in with outstretched arms.
Of course good ventilation is essential.If you practice these exercises intelligently and persistently they will put you in a condition to go through your daily work with ease and pleasure.