Maxick
Autor de Muscle Control
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I do not, and never have, claimed that by muscle-control alone, unaided by mechanical exercises, each muscle may be brought to its highest state of development; but I do claim that mechanical exercise, either with or without apparatus, will never produce the limit of strength and development of which the individual is capable unless combined with muscle-control.
The reasons will be fully explained in the following pages; and the proof has been already shown in the many pupils that I have instructed during my stay in England, for muscle-control has a prominent place in my system of physical culture.
A few of the illustrations in the ork have been taken from "The Maxick Saldo System of Physical Culture", by special arrangement with Mr. Monte Saldo and the Publishers, but the great majority of the poses have been specially taken.
The text and photographs have been prepared with the idea of meeting the requirements of the ordinary Physical Culturist, and for that reason all Latin names have been excluded, except where absolutely necessary; simple descriptive terms having been used, so that no anatomical knowledge is required to understand the work.
Charts, showing the principal voluntary muscles of the body, will be found on pages 110 and 111. The reader is earnestly advised to study these, as knowledge of the position of the various muscles will aid him materially to an intelligent accomplishment of the different feats.… (más)