How to Get Strong and How to Stay So (1899)/Appendix 3
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APPENDIX III.
Showing average increase of two hundred students in various measurements, after working but half an hour a day four times a week, for six months, under Dr. Sargent.
| Average increase in height | ¼ in. |
| Average increase in weight | 2 lbs. |
| Average increase of chest (contracted) | ¾ in. |
| Average increase of chest (inflated) | 1¾ in. |
| Average increase of girth of forearm | ¾ in. |
| Average increase of girth of upper arm | 1 in. |
| Average increase of width of shoulders | ¾ in. |
| Average increase of girth of hips | 2¼ in. |
| Average increase of girth of thigh | 1½ in. |
| Average increase of girth of calf | ¾ in. |