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

by William Blaikie

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.