| Athletics and Games of the Ancient Greeks Contributor(s): Plummer, Edward M. (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798720370640 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $6.29 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2021 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Olympics & Paralympics |
| Physical Information: 0.17" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.26 lbs) 80 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Few kinds of labor develop the body in a symmetrical manner. This is true even in an elementary division of la-bor. The carpenter and the blacksmith usually have strong, large shoulders and arms, but small and weak legs. The farmer, from excessive bending over his work, loses, in a greater or less degree, his elasticity of body, and often becomes stoop-shouldered. If such defects re-sult from the more primitive forms of labor, it is not at all strange that the laborers of the modern industrial world show bodily peculiarities and variations that correspond, in a marked degree, to their respective trades. A well-known teacher of gymnastics in a New England college has declared himself able to designate the various occu-pations of laborers in a Boston Labor Day parade, with-out reference to any sign or banner, merely by inspecting their carriage and physical peculiarities. It may, therefore, be asserted that, while labor involving muscular exertion, if performed in healthful surroundings, supplies the con-ditions essential to good digestion and assimilation, to a more complete respiration, and to the maintenance of healthy nerves, yet, only rarely, if ever, does it tend to develop the ideal body. |