RAPID PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 24, Issue 18, 7 March 1913, Page 2

RAPID PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT.

Here is a capital exercise for developing ihe arms and shoulders. It is true it requires two persons to perform it, but so many of my readers are ba'helots living in boardinghouses or sharing rooms with a pal that they should have no difficulty in finding some one to exercise with. A stout pole or stick such as a broomstick is necessary,' but beyond this no further apparatus is needed. First settle which is to be the attacker, which defender, and then stand facing each other. Each of you holds the pole at arm’s length above his head. An overhand grip is taken as hear' the ends of the pole as convenient, one of the contestants having his right hand outside the other’s left, and his left hand inside his opponent’s right. The game is for the attacker to try by pressing on the pole to force his opponent over sideways until the end of the pole is pointing, straight down to. the ground. The attacker may try to force the pole over first to one side, then to the other, but the defender must confine himself to resisting as strongly as he can. When the pole has been forced over until it is vertical, the bout terminates, and attacker and defender change places.* Another capital exercise for two persons, which I think you will be able to understand without an illustration, is performed as follows : Sit on the floor or ground facing each other, and at such a distance that the legs are fully extended, but overlap so f§r as about your respective ankles. Bach of you supports himself on his hands, arms extended. Now let one of you place the flat of his right foot against the inside of the other’s right ankle, and try to push Ms leg round to the right, he resisting all he knows how. Then perform the same exercise with the left foot, and then, as before, let the attacker become the defender.

This is. a really splendid exercise for the lower limbs, and the competition element in this and the pole contest lends interest to the proceedings.