Finishing up our series from Checkley’s Natural Method of Training, we have some more highlights for you today.
Checkley’s Natural Method of Training
By: Edwin Checkley
Second edition, published 1922, excerpts from pages 135 and 137.
“Of course the best kind of exercise is the exercise the body receives
in performing some useful service. If a person feels that he is
getting some good out a certain kind if work he has more enjoyment in
that work than if he considered it either harmful labor or labor that
was merely obligatory. It is notorious that men will enter with
enoyment on active sport that makes a considerable demand upon their
strength, when a hod of coal hurts their back, and a little spading in
the garden fills them with aches for a week. As a matter of fact, too,
word done without interest actually strains the body more than work
enthusiastically performed.”
“The tendency of hard exercise is hard muscles, and hard muscles are
bad. The body should remain firm, but pliant and in most parts soft.
It is in the conservation of energy, and not in the prodigal
dissipation of energy, that the greatest strength and endurance of the
body will always lie.“
