How to Get Strong and How to Stay So (1899)/Appendix 2
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APPENDIX II.
Showing the average state of the growth and development of the same number of men (two hundred) after having practised in the gymnasium half an hour a day four times a week, for a period of six months, under Dr. Sargent.
| Height | 5 ft. 8¼ in. | 68.254 in, |
| Weight | 137 lbs. | 137.123 lbs. |
| Chest (inflated) | 36¼ in. | 36.829 in. |
| Chest (contracted) | 33 in. | 33.206 in. |
| Forearm | 10¾ in. | 10.760 in. |
| Upper arm (flexed) | 12 in. | 11.903 in. |
| Shoulders (width) | 16¼ in. | 16.260 |
| Hips | 33¾ in. | 33.875 in. |
| Thigh | 21 in. | 20.964 in. |
| Calf | 13¼ in. | 13.232 in. |
In this case the apparatus used was light dumb-bells, 2½ lbs.; Indian clubs, 3½ lbs.; pulley-weights, from 10 to 15 lbs.