This study reveals the marvel of anatomists, sculptors and artists in the nude; embracing the great athlete's simple method of physical education for the home, the gymnasium, and the Army Training School; preceded by a biography dealing with the chief incidents in Mr. Sandow's professional career, his phenomenal prowess and gladiatorial skill in completive matches, contests and exhibitions, with Mr. Sandow's scheme of dumbbell and barbell exercises, and his views on the physiology of gymnastics, the function of the muscles, etc. Copiously illustrated.

This volume contains the issues of Sandow's Magazine of Physical culture from January 1900 to June 1900. Eugen Sandow was a great amateur and professional athlete. He devoted a large portion of his life to helping the would-be athlete and all who desired to attain perfect health, increased strength and full development of their physical frame. Sample contents: Wonderful Record of Physical Endurance; Swedish Diving; Hurling, the National Game of Ireland; Hair Culture, Its Helps and Hindrances; Rational Riding for Women; Work and Old Age; Something About Criminals; Branding a Thief; Evolution of Indian Club Swinging; Beast Versus Man; A Few Practical Hints on Self Defense; Physical Training of Girls; Effect of Thought on the Body; and much more. Copiously illustrated throughout.

This book describes the only natural, radical and permanent method of curing, preventing and eliminating disease and is dedicated by the author to the medical profession throughout the world. Sandow devoted assiduous study to the subject of the influence of scientific physical movement upon the wonderful cellular life of the body, and especially to the influence of physical movement, scientifically applied and carried out, upon the conscious evolution of new and better cells. This volume is the outcome of these studies, and its chief object is to show how such physical movement can reconstruct tissue that is diseased, replacing it with new and healthy tissue, and how, by applying it from childhood, we may prevent and even eradicate disease altogether. Illustrated.

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With anatomical chart, illustrating exercises for physical development. In writing this book, the author took it as commonplace that everyone, man, woman and child, wants to be strong. Without strength, and by strength he means health, vitality and a general sense of well-being, life is but a gloomy business. Sandow claims that by carefully following out his system, set out in this book, these results may be obtained.

This volume contains the issues of Sandow's Magazine of Physical culture from July 1899 to December 1899. Eugen Sandow was a great amateur and professional athlete. He devoted a large portion of his life to helping the would-be athlete and all who desired to attain perfect health, increased strength and full development of their physical frame. Sample contents: Arabs from a Physical Standpoint; Physical Culture Among the Boers; Champion Brothers Whittingham; Duel Between Pini and De Marinis; Cricket; Treatment of Obesity; Rational Exercise in Japan; Motor Cycle Race; Steeplejacks and Their Work; Swedish Movement Cure; Where Nature Has Slighted Man; Tight Lacing and Exercise; and much more. Copiously illustrated throughout.