Bosco Arms & Shoulders

M U S C U LAR ARMS A N D S H OUL DERS A Bosco Book By

HARRY B. PASCHALL

The Author respectfully dedicates this book on muscular armr and shoulders to the man who possessesthe most pcrfcct development in the world-JonN C. Gnrnasr.

Published by: Wm F. Hinbern 3249o- Cloverdale Farmington, Michigan 48336-4008

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CONTENTS Chapter

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Foreword

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Arms...and the Man

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A Discussion of Training Methods

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Originally hrblished in 1953 Three Exercises for the Arms and Shoulders

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How to Do It - A Programme for Action

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by the " World's Foremost Authority on Physictl (irrlture ", but I am afraid to make such a categoricalsl,nlt.: ment. After all, I have only been a student of lrrxly building and weight lifting for forty years. A lifctirnr: is not long enough to learn all there is to know aborrt, this vital subject. So I shall merely say that the contents of this book represent what one rhan has learned through closeassociation with the leading men of muscle, through practical, realistic shoulder-to-shoulder workouts in the world's leading training centres. The impractical methods have been weeded out, and this brief work gives you the gist of accepted practice of the present-day stars. I believc firmly that anyone who puts this information to practical use will be able to develop strong, shapely and perfectly muscled arms and shoulders. It may be of some small comfort to other musclehcarls to know that the author is still as much in love with barbells and dumb-bells as he was forty years ago, and still uses them regularly and happily. FLoRIDA 1958.

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N THE beach at Cape Muy, several years ago, we watched a little iniident so typical it might have occurred anywhere in the world. A family_ group was surf and the sunsl!1", and qaPa was' enjoying -so the salt a camera fan. He trained the lens many others, Iik-e on each member of the family in turn, and flnally focused The youngster immediately on ten-year-old Junior. muscle pose assumed the arms-cocked-at-right-angles familiar to Strongmen for generations, and tensed biceqs almost as big as oysters. " Look at me, Pop," he shouted, " I'm Superman ! " It is s5 natural to think of the upper arms when one mentions the word " muscle ", that it must almost be As kids in the school yard, we remember instinctive. gathering around the most athle,tic.schoolboy and- askil g him to ''Let us feel your muscle ". We never thought of feeling the vastus externus, the lattissimus dorsi, or was alwaYf tfe sire,e, Bob-it the pectoralis major-no bicefs. Powerfully developed arms remain, through.the yeafs, the hallmaik of the strength champion, and it is logical that the average physical culturist devotes a great dell of thought and time to the culture of the arms. The very first training book we bought aq a fourteenyear-old boy was entitled Strong Arms and Shoulders. In iorty years we have come full circle. Instead of reading about-Iumpy arms, we are writing about them ourselves, and we hope to show you that we have learned something of the subject in the ensuing four decades. The most important single thing we have learned is that the deltoid-muscles of the shoulders are really more worthy of consideration *n"] the various muscles of the c

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arm if you are aiming at an impressive physirlru:. Wr, will go even further-the shoulders are the KII)Y lo masculine physical perfection. Fortunately, it is impossible to develop the tlt:lt,oirl musclesto their full power and beauty withiout also r:xt'rcising the arms thoroughly, so the possessorof brourl, rounded, muscular shoulders is invariably fitted with well-developed arms as well. The opposite is also truc; i1 i.s possible to pui$ bulky arms without an appropriately large shoulder development-so it is important fhat the seeker of perfection approach the subject from thc proper angle. Remember-shoulders first; arms secon