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Strength and How to Obtain It

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In writing this book I have taken it as a commonplace that everyone—man, woman, and child—wants to be strong. Without strength—and by strength I mean health, vitality, and a general sense of physical well-being—life is but a gloomy business. Wealth, talent, ambition, the love and affection of friends, the pleasure derived from doing good to those about one, all these things may afford some consolation for being deprived of life’s chief blessing, but they can never make up for it. “But,” I am constantly being asked, “it is all very well for you to say this, and everyone of sense agrees with you; the point is, can we obtain this much-prized blessing?” In the vast majority of cases I can say unhesitatingly “Yes.” You can all be strong, all enjoy the heritage which was intended for you. - Summary by Eugen Sandow (3 hr 27 min)

Chapters

INTRODUCTION and NOTE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

3:40

Read by Dyefferson Azevedo

PART I. CHAPTER I. CONCERNING PHYSICAL CULTURE.

13:45

Read by Shirisha Amatya

PART I. CHAPTER II. THE PROGRESS OF THE SYSTEM.

3:52

Read by Shirisha Amatya

PART I. CHAPTER III. THE STUPIDITY OF ENVY.

3:51

Read by Shirisha Amatya

PART I. CHAPTER IV. HOW TO EXERCISE.

10:50

Read by Rolga

PART I. CHAPTER V. MY “GRIP” DUMB-BELL.

4:36

Read by Rolga

PART I. CHAPTER VI. THE MAGIC COLD BATH

5:28

Read by J Korth

PART I. CHAPTER VII. PHYSICAL CULTURE FOR THE MIDDLE-AGED

3:18

Read by Marie Christian

PART I. CHAPTER VIII. PHYSICAL CULTURE FOR WOMEN

5:39

Read by Marie Christian

PART I. CHAPTER IX. THE TABLES OF AGES.

19:35

Read by Bev J Stevens

PART I. CHAPTER X. MY SCHOOLS OF PHYSICAL CULTURE.

4:05

Read by Chuck Williamson

PART I. CHAPTER XI. INSTRUCTION BY CORRESPONDENCE

2:39

Read by Dyefferson Azevedo

PART I. CHAPTER XII. SANDOW’S CHART OF MEASUREMENTS

1:23

Read by Dyefferson Azevedo

PART I. CHAPTER XIII. THE COMBINED DEVELOPER

2:59

Read by bmitchell062003

PART I. CHAPTER XIV. HEAVY WEIGHT-LIFTING

2:41

Read by Christine Rottger

A PLEASING TRIBUTE

4:05

Read by Kerry Adams

LETTERS AND PHOTOGRAPHS OF PUPILS

31:27

Read by Marie Christian

PART II. CHAPTER I. MY CHILDHOOD AND BOYHOOD

3:00

Read by bmitchell062003

PART II.CHAPTER II. HOW I CAME TO LONDON AND DEFEATED SAMSON

14:59

Read by Bev J Stevens

PART II. CHAPTER III. I MEET GOLIATH

4:37

Read by bmitchell062003

PART II.CHAPTER IV.A PRESENTATION UNDER CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES

8:09

Read by Amy Gramour

PART II. CHAPTER V. THE LIVING WEIGHTS

3:44

Read by Dar'Keith Lofton

PART II. CHAPTER VI. ON THE “ELBE”: BOUND FOR NEW YORK

5:38

Read by Kerry Adams

PART II.CHAPTER VII.MY FIRST HOUR IN AMERICA

5:32

Read by john warren hart

PART II. CHAPTER VIII. INCIDENTS OF THE AMERICAN TOUR

7:52

Read by Chuck Williamson

PART II. CHAPTER IX. MY LION FIGHT IN SAN FRANCISCO

10:13

Read by john warren hart

PART II. CHAPTER X. FURTHER INCIDENTS OF THE TOUR

3:31

Read by Wallace Morgan

PART II.CHAPTER XI.MY DOG SULTAN. END OF THE TOUR

9:31

Read by Shaef

PART II. CHAPTER XII.MY PERFORMANCE AT THE PRESENT TIME

4:12

Read by Larry Wilson

PART II.CHAPTER XIII. MY MEASUREMENTS

2:21

Read by Larry Wilson