Mysteries of Chest Expansion

From page 51 of 'Super Strength' by Alan Calvert:

"The chest and lungs are the storehouses of your power. A big rib-box means plenty of room for the lungs. Big lungs are of immense value to the super-strong man. They enable him to keep up for many minutes at a time of exertions which would exhaust an ordinary individual in the course of a few seconds.

Therefore your first aim should be to increase the size of the rib box; and even if you do not intend to try for super-strength, or if you are not interested in any other kind of exercise, I most earnestly recommend you to practice the movement described in the following paragraphs.

A few months daily practice will increase the girth of your rib-box by several inches. As the rib box grows larger, the shoulders will get proportionately broader, the lungs will get bigger and you will find that you will have vastly endurance as the size and power of the lungs increases. Furthermore you will find that you arms and legs will develop automatically. A big-chested man can get arm and leg development at a much more rapid pace than can the man who has a small rib-box and correspondingly small lungs." If you don't a few chest expansion movements in your training - you should! To learn more about how to expand the chest and enlare the rib-box, I recommend the following resources:

Lionel Strongfort from 1931 - You sure don't see chest development like this these days

1. The Key to Might and Muscle by George Jowett

2. Super Strength by Alan Calvert

3.. Combat Abs by Matt Furey

4. The New Bodybuilding for Old School Results by Dr. Ellington Darden

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