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pionship lifts. Practicc ererything—single and double-handed prcss in dumb-bells and bar bells, single and double-handed lifts, all the way in dunib-błills and bar bells. snatching and swinging, jerking and pressing, lying down with weights, supporting weights, lifting weights whiie laid on the back, ring weights, kuman weights, and. if possible. double-handed lifts to the knee. and harness lifts. also holding the beli aloft and bringing a wcight after with the disengaged hand, and raising bells aloft by what is known as the Continental style of lifting, deseribed in this book. Also anything else that may suggest itself to your mind, such as heavy weights at arm's length, raising bells over-head stood on end on the hand. juggling with weights !))• throw-ing them froin hand to hand overhead, catching in the hollow of the arms, etc. A method of practicc such as the above would not only bring into play cvery band and strap of muscle you pos-sess. hut also give you a far better knowledgc of all-round weight-lifting, than you could possibly obtain if you practiced three or four lifts onls to the exclusion ni all others. ALSO DO NOT TORGET TO USE YOUR LEFT HAND AS WELL AS YpUP KICHT.

On the days when you do not practicc with heaw weights you might try a few movements with a pair of dumb-bells froin 10 ta 30 pounds in weight. according to your strength and dcvel-opment. Add to this your larorite sports. such as cycling. wrest-ling, swimming, or what not, and the weight-lifting practices, and you should be doing c|uitc sufficient work to not onlv keep you fit but to bring you to the top of the tree if it so be that you are naturally possessed of the right constitution and physiąue to enable you to carry out your ideas on these lities.

As explained clsewhere, in my opinion, if a man feels that hc is not strong enough to go in for weight-lifting without pre-