The Archive · 1939

Leg Exercises

1f your sun-tanned legs are to look their best during the holidays you had better start exercising them right away, because exercises take time to do their good work.

An easy exercise to keep the legs good looking is done by sitting on the floor with legs stretched straight in front of you. Bend forward, keeping the knees as flat as possible, and take each toe separately between thumb and forefinger and stretch it back towards you.

To slim" ankles and strengthen hes sit on a straight-backed chair with the right leg crossed over the left knee. Let the foot dangle, then circle the foot clockwise, keeping all the action in the ankle and pulling the arch of the foot upwards as the foot is drawn up towards you. Do this 18 times. Then reverse the exercise by crossing the left leg over the right knee and rotating the foot anti-clockwise, Exercise No. 2: The same position. Bend forward, touching the toes of the left foot with the fingers of the right hand, hold for two sec-ends, straighten up, and then bend forward again touching the toes of the right foot with the fingers of the left hand. act like a new person.

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