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Show TO DEVELOP LEO MU8CLC3. Glmple Exercise, Without Apparatus, Will Produce the Result. It la very necessary to possess sufficient suffi-cient development of tho muscles ot the legs. Ono of tho best exercises looking to this end In accomplished aa follows: Stand 'erect, with tho fcot spread apart and arms hanging limply at the sldos. Ilend downward to a squatting position, allowing tho bands to touch tho floor If posslblo. Tho squatting position should bo one In which tho student as nearly as posslblo sits upon tho heels, but bead and trunk should bo erect or nearly so. When tbli position has been taken tak-en bring tho arms up horizontally forward, clasping tho hands for a moment mo-ment only. Next throw tho arms, ai pa DtcKwurd as posslblo and as near xi ncrizontal aa you can. parformlni Ca Uut movement slowly. Now uowtf rasumo tho band clasp ana, fcMpiag the hands In this position, rauni gradually to a standing pot tW. Threo of these excrclsoa art aougb (or tho beginner, and In Japan Ja-pan in veteran ot jlujltsu rarely performs more than ten of them. St Nicholas. |