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SPALDING'S ATHLETIC LIBRARY.
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SIDES, SHOULDERS, ARMS, BACK.
See Fig. 17.
Tense your arms to the utmost—after pushing them out a short distance from the sides of the body—and then bring them toward, but not quite to, the body, checking them in opposition to a strong imaginary force.
This exercise—so difficult to make plain through the medium of the pen—is not only one of the most fascinating, but one that exercises a set of muscles that is rarely, ofherwise, developed.
Twenty-five times.
