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pressing same aloft, to bring aloft w i tli the disengaged band, a ring weight or smali dumb-bell. Tliis is first raised to the shoul-der and tben pressed aloft, your eyes being all the time kept on the bar beli in the right liand. Still another exereise or practice is to load your bar liell up to such a weight as can be titmcd over to the shoulder, then let go witli the lett hand and twist the body into position lor the press, and aftcr holding the bar there for a second or two return to the ground. lt is reasonable to suppose that if a mail can press only 150 |>ounds with one hand, and he turns over and holds at the shoulder '224 poumls, when he retunis to his 150-pound beli, he will handle it with greatcr ease, comfort and asstttance than he cver could <lo before, and he will eeemually in this way reach a higher limit than if he always held in awe such a weight as 224 pounds, and he will further have a better idea ot" what 224 pounds really means if he handles the 1x41. than if he has to rely on his imagination when considering what can, and what cannot, be done with a 224-pound bar beli.    ,

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