Emery County Progress | 1904-09-17 | Page 2 | Strength at Various Ages

STRENGTH AT VARIOUS AGES muscles have their stage stages ef of development and decline careful investigations have proved that the muscles as well as other organs 0 of the body have their stages of development and decline tests of the strength of several thousands of people have been made by the use of a dynamometer strength measure and the following are given as the average figures of the white race the lifting power of a youth of 17 I 1 Is in his twentieth year this in creases to and in his thirtieth and thirty first years it reaches its it height at the end of the thirty first year the strength begin begins to decline by the fortieth year it has decreased fib sib and this dimina tion continues at a slightly increasing rate until the fiftieth year la Is reached when the figure ie Is after this period the strength falls more and more rapidly