Top Highlights

• To explain briefly, the muscle or muscle-group has been fully contracted, relaxed, stretched and controlled, and the position held long enough to ensure perfect blood-irrigation and consequent nourishment, but without any appreciable output or energy .
• One does not find oneself used up after the ten to fourteen minutes of Maxalding, but extraordinarily refreshed and buoyant.
• brings into use the whole of the lungs – see chapter on respiration – not by the dangerous methods of forced deep-breathing, but by mechanical stretching of the thorax, which is obtained mainly through Exercises 1, 2, 3, 7 and 11.
• Only in mechanical exercises, such as Exercise 9, should more than six repetitions be used.
• The exercises have been arrange in strict order of importance, and when you reach the 16th exercise a full all-round course will be in action.