Strength, and how to obtain it / by Eugen Sandow.

  • Sandow, Eugen, 1867-1925.
Date:
[1901]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Strength, and how to obtain it / by Eugen Sandow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mon Repos, 66a, Herne Hill, London, S.E., March 6th. Manager Clease, Dear Sir, It is just over three years since I started to improve my physical power by means of the Sandow system, and I take this opportunity of forwarding some photographs taken at different periods. In what measure I have succeeded can best be seen by comparison of my original efforts and my present attainments, of which I also forward a list. Although they are as yet nothing to boast about or sufficiently great to be handed down to posterity, they are the result of close application to the system Mr. Sandow originated, and by means of which, in a few years, I hope to attain the culmination of human strength, and, if possible, to rival that of Sandow himself, for I am a firm believer in starting with an almost un- attainable ideal, then gradually coming within measurable distance of it, and eventually, perhaps, to reach it. To do this will require the exercise of many mental qualities, determination, perseverance, and endurance. I suppose there arc many young men like myself in whom Mr. Sandow has awakened a lalent ambition to muscular prowess, and in doing so I state without any hesitation that he alone has done as much good for the country as any man of the present century,