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Pushing power is measured by pushing the handles toward one another. What do these tests mean to you and me ? Suppose you are five feet two inches tall and weigh about 100 pounds. What should your push and pull power be? About eighty pounds for push and sixty-five pounds for pull, says the Public Health Service. If you are a stocky person of the same height, weighing 160 pounds, you ought to push 110 pounds and pull eighty-five. In case you are about six feet tall, slender of build, and weigh only 140 pounds, both your push and pull should be lighter, ninety- five pounds and eighty pounds, respectively. But if you are a six-footer weighing in the neighborhood of 180, you should be able to push 115 pounds and pull ninety. A CURIOUS fact which the experts were at a loss to explain was that, gen- erally speaking, the tall, slender men had to bow to the short, stocky ones of similar weight in pulling, but defeated them in lift- ing, which is merely another form of pulling. To test their lifting power, the men were made to grasp, at the height of their knees, a small horizontal bar connected with a chain attached to the floor. Their Ufting power was registered on a dial. The heaviest men were found to have the most powerful grip and they could "shake hands" with you to the tune of 108.48 pounds, pretty close to the maximum recorded by the measuring device, a small pear-shaped affair containing a spring. It is worked by the pressure of one hand. The man of average height — five feet six inches — weighing about 140 pounds, ought to have an eighty-five-pound grip; if he is twenty pounds heavier, it should reach ninety. In the lung-power tests, the short, heavy- set lads again were the winners. Greatest lung-power was demonstrated by the shortest men in the 150-159 pound class. This was measured by a Baumanometer, in which a column of mercury is pushed upward by the force of a man's breath. The men with the strongest lungs blew the mercury up six and three-fifths inches. If you are five feet eight inches tall, but weigh only 120 pounds, you should be able to push the mercury up five and one-third inches. But if, with the same height, you weigh 170 pounds, you ought to drive it up five and three-fourths inches. LUN'G fatigue — that is, the length of time during which a man can hold his breath — also was tested with the Baumanometer. It was measured by liming in seconds, with a stop watch, the period for which a subject could support the mercury column at a height of one inch and a half. The final test was that of vital capacity. In this experiment, the amount of air a man can expel from his lungs after breathing as deeply as possible was measured with a spirometer. The measurement was made in liters, a liter being slightly more than one quart. This capacity, it was shown, is about equivalent to chest expansion, except that it is cxpres.sed in volume instead of inches. 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