. Massage & exercises combined : a permanent physical culture course for men, women and children : health-giving, vitalizing, prophylactic, beautifying : a new system of the characteristic essentials of gymnastic and Indian Yogis concentration exercises combined with scientific massage movements : with 86 illustrations and deep breathing exercises . Fig-. 11 A. Fig. 11 B. Note. Women may use the palms of the hands, withthe fingers outstretched and close together, when beating overthe chest. Inhale the air while the upper body is being bentbackward, exhale while it is brought forward to an upri
. Massage & exercises combined : a permanent physical culture course for men, women and children : health-giving, vitalizing, prophylactic, beautifying : a new system of the characteristic essentials of gymnastic and Indian Yogis concentration exercises combined with scientific massage movements : with 86 illustrations and deep breathing exercises . Fig-. 11 A. Fig. 11 B. Note. Women may use the palms of the hands, withthe fingers outstretched and close together, when beating overthe chest. Inhale the air while the upper body is being bentbackward, exhale while it is brought forward to an uprightposition. This exercise done five times will take about ten counting every time when commencing to beat upward overthe abdomen, it will make five counts. Analysis and Ejfects of the Combined MassageExercise No. 11 This exercise is combined in such a way that there is ob-tained the movements of the arms and the bending of theupper body backwards, together with the beating of the ab-domen and of the chest. The beating, which in massage is called tapotement, stimu-lates the nerves and contracts and stimulates the muscles, ifthe blows are given very lightly and quickly. Stronger andharder blows cause a benumbing effect upon the nerves, andshould therefore be avoided. The movements of the trunk and the arms and hands, inapplying the
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