GROWING TALL BY EXERCISE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9307, 9 March 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

GROWING TALL BY EXERCISE.

Exercise ia generally taken without any direct reference to the increase of height. Thus is often happens that the gymnastic feats chiefly indulged in tend rathor to check than to increase the rate of growth. Thia applies particularly, says Mr. R. A. Proctor, to the lifting of heavy weights, tho use of large durnb-bellfl, involving comparatively Blow movements, and all exercises which tend to increase the supporting power of the spine and leg-bones, even though they be exercises primarily directed to increase the muscular power of the arms. Pulling exercises, though they tend to increase tho development of tho arms in length as well as in girth, round the forearm chieny, do not on the whole favour the development of length of limb. Sailors, who from boyhood upward are much employed in pulling and hauling, are on the average short men, though often the development of strength an <>«gbt resulting from their active openair Uvea is remarkable. We boo of tenor among them than in other classes brawny chests, shoulders, and upper arms in company with lower limbs, which by comparison appear almost stunted? On tho other hund men engaged in hunting or in occupations requiring much walking, running, leaping, and the like, acquire well-developod lower limbs, and are Oα tUo average, tailor ttuia other clasLK.3,