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Daily Exercises and Home Development [1922]: Part 1 – Intro + Bridging

These four exercises are the best that have ever been presented for muscle, for bodily health and for the retention of youthful agility and sense of orientation, and also the training and coordination of brain and muscle.

Before starting them please do one thing: Determine upon regular routine exercise. Get the habit.

All-Round Female Athlete Diploma of the Attila System of Strength Building [1910]

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This is to Certify that Caroline Baumann has completed a regular Course of the Attila System of Strength Building, passed a highly satisfactory examination in Feats of Strength, Boxing, Bagpunching, Wrestling, etc.etc., displaying thereby extraordinary qualifications as an all-round Athlete, Instructor, and Performer.

Some Exercises to Test Your Strength [1923]

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Here are a couple of exercises that you can do to test your strength, but which also will give you strength and muscle if you practice them regularly.

Get the strongest chair handy for them, you will then be least likely to damage either the chair or yourself.

Tough Muscle Building Work of Advanced Non-Apparatus Training [1955]

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Even the most ardent heavy-apparatus man can use his muscular system to the limits of its powers when he is removed from his weights, squat racks, etc., by circumstances such as National Service, traveling, conditions at home demanding silence, etc., and if weight trainers reading this are inclined to doubt the powerful effects of these exercises, then I would earnestly suggest that they try them. They will then have a very different opinion!

Baithaks aka Hindu Squats [1950]

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This exercise is supplementary to Dands [Hindu pushups]. Dands give a prominent shape particularly to arms and chest while Baithaks shape calf muscles and thigh-muscles, tending to develop wonderful stamina of the performer. These two exercises enable Indian Wrestlers to become invincible in obtaining strength.