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The neck, the arms up and the legs, around the calves should measure about the same.

The upper-arms down should measure from 2 to 2½ inches more than the forearm.

The circumference of a shoulder should be about 4 inches more than that of the neck.

The circumference of the shoulders should be about 4 inches more than that of the muscular chest inflated.

The difference between the expanded and unexpanded respiratory chest should be about 4 inches.

The muscular chest expanded should be 8 or 10 inches larger than the smallest natural waist.

The chest width should be about 2½ inches more than the chest depth.

The largest hip measurement should be 4 or 5 inches larger than the smallest natural waist measurement.

The thigh should measure 6 or 7 inches more than the calf.

The neck, arm and leg measurements are never found to fit save when the subject is good at gymnastics, athletics, aerobatics, ground-tumbling, wrestling, rowing, etc.

The neck is always a little the largest; then the legs; and lastly the arms. The ground-tumbler has these measurements; the neck, legs and arms the nearest equal.

The athlete's legs will tend to be larger, while in the gymnast the arms may be larger than the legs.

Length of trunk is some equivalent for circumference; circumference and length seldom go together.

Tall thin men have a large lung capacity.

Length of limb is also some equivalent for circumference.

To get these measurements, thousands of men, nude, have been measured since 1870.

The all-round man who exercises at all kinds of physical exercises and competes but little in any of them; who does his work daily for health and fun's sake, is sure in time to have the most shapely and enduring body. The person who aims to excel in some one thing, rarely has a well-shaped body.