Ideally, our muscles should obey our will. Reasonably, our will should not be dominated by the reflex actions of our muscles.

When all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort and maximum pleasure.

Concentrate on the correct movement each time you exercise, lest you do them improperly and thus lose all the vital benefits. Correctly executed and mastered to the point of subconscious reaction, these exercises will reflect grace and balance in your routine activities.

Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred exercises repeated daily "ad-nausem".

A man is as young as his spinal column.

Above all, learn to breathe correctly.

The mind, when housed within a healthful body, possesses a glorious sense of power.