Letters and Photographs of Pupils.
In the following pages will be found a selection from many thousands of letters which have been addressed to me by pupils who have already profited from my system of Physical Culture. Attention is specially directed to the measurements before and after training, showing the actual progress made in muscular development.
Vachwen,
Marlborough Road,
Watford,
March 11th, 1899.
Mr. Sandow.
Dear Sir,
I have just completed a course of lessons at your “School of Physical Culture,” from which I have derived untold benefit. Through the greater part of last year I was so ill that for some time it was feared I might go into consumption. I was medically treated, and at length permitted by my doctor to try what your exercises would do.
I entered your School with weak heart, weak lungs, digestion sadly impaired. After three lessons, with persistent home work, I began very slowly to gain strength and an appetite, and now, at the end of my course, I am quite a new creature—full of vitality and energy.
The upper part of the lung, which was the chief cause of my trouble, is quite healed and healthy. I never know now what it is to feel pain and tightness in the bronchial tubes, from which I constantly suffered in the past. My digestive organs too are quite well.
| I have gained in weight | 7 lbs. |
| I have gained round the neck | 1 in. |
| I have gained in the chest (contracted) | 3½ ins. |
| I have gained in the chest (expanded) | 4 ins. |
| I have gained in forearm | 2½ ins. |
| I have gained in upper arm | 2½ ins. |
| I have gained in lung capacity | 100 cbc. ins. |