Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-19
EXERCISE FOR TIE BUSY
ONE IS TO DRESS ONESELF
WHILE STANDING UP.
This Includes Putting on Shoes and
Stockings-How to Get the Great
est Good Out of Walking.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
THESE hints as to how busy men may oh.
tain exercise were given by one of the best
physical instructors in town:
1here are certain things a man may do
ana De unconsciously exercising all the
time" he said. He may begin this exer-
cislng when ne dresses in the morning Ho
should, for instance, stand up all the time
he IS dressing. In that way he unconscious
ly gets exercise for most of the muscles in
his body. You may ask how a man NAV
stand up and put on his socks He doesn't
stand up. He has to lean over and il takes
a mighty bending down to get them on.
But 1t Is just that physical effort that
serves as exercise.
The same exercise may be got out of the
process of undressing. Don't sit down
curing the process. Lean over and take of
your shoes and socks and then take the
rest of the clothes off without sitting down
FOR minute. This operation both morn
ing and evening will be q great helm to the
person who takes no regular exercise. To
one who follows it in addition to his regu-
lar morning and evening exercise it will be
of great use.
Then there is the exercise of the calves
in walking which makes half a block as
effective as half a mile. 1t consists simply
in pressing down the feet as one walks un-
til the calf begins to ache from the addl-
tional exercise. When lifting the feet press
down hard with the ball of the foot. which
gives the muscles much more work than
they would ordinarily have. The man who
walks ten blocks this way will feel on the
nrst day as If he had run ten miles such
VIII be the aching in his calves That will
disappear in day or two, however, and he
will find that the muscles in that part Of
his leg will rapidly grow larger and harder
The aid of walking is much greater than
most people realize Let walking always
be brisk. And walk. Don't jump on a
trolley car after the New York habit when
all day to do it. The man who rides on a
car rides away from health. The plan of
running across every street a man comes
to is not bad one. Then there is the habt
greatest physical force possible. A man
may sharpen pencil and get considera BILE
exercise out of 1t II he puts into that sim
pie act the greatest amount of physical
force.
Let him contract his muscles as If he
meant to drag a lawn roller that weighed a
ton. Then with his muscles under this
tense strain let him use the knife not of
course, with the force he would use in a lob
that really took muscle, but as If he were
trying to hold back his strength.
Most men who take exercise after GER
tain age troubled about their girth One
good exercise to reduce the abdomen is for
a man to lie on his back and slowly lift his
legs into the air, or he may lie on the floor
and slowly raise himself to sitting pos
ture. Both forms are good. These two
exercises belong to the category OF regular
gymnastics of a kind we are not discussing
An effective way of treating the growing
abdomen may be resorted to in the middle
of 5th avenue. This consists In drawing
in as closely as possible the abdomen to the
backbone and then throwing il in and out
as often as he can. Then it should not be
allowed to return to its original and natural
state, but should continue to be held in
close to the body. Under this continued
exercise the muscles grow harder and the
soft fat disappears.
These little aids to health will not take
the place of regular daily exercise. They
may, however, have the effect of helping
that on, and they certainly better than
nothing