The Archive · 1928

Real Exercises

Here is an exercise recommended to women who want to keep sli Lie on the back. Relax the ab-nominal muscles completely; draw 'a deep breath through the nostrils and allow it to distend the abdomen.

Then contract the abdomen slowly, expelling the air as far as poss ble, and finishing with the abdomi nal wall well drawn in, Repeat this 10 or 20 times.

Another favourite form of exer cise-is to sit crosslegged on the floor, gripping the right toes. with the left hand, the left toes with the right, and then roll in a side-ty-side, backwards and forwards movement, for with a circular movement.

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