The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-15
FINDS ORDINARY
HOUSEWORK is
GOOD 'REDUCER'
Women Are Urged to Put
Form in Duties TO Grow
1.-the.
BIZ Times Special

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SPRINGFIELD. o.. Sept. IS
Housework can be made as good a
conditioning" and "slenderizing"
exercise for women as golf or ten
mis-, according to expert opinions
gathered by Ruth Chandler Moore
for Golfers Weekly. washing,
scrubbing, sewing, bed making,
sweeping, ironing and especially
running up and down stairs, can
melt off hips and surplus poundage,
and can act as a general workout
to give a woman the smooth elastic
muscles and 1.-the erect carriage
which are supposed to result from
golf, tennis or swimming.
The main thing is to learn the
correct form" It's the way YOU
work that matters. "Too bad wom-
en- don't go after their homework
the way they do their sports" says
JAG Auer, who directs fashionable
gymnasium for women in New
York. They take up sports to i'm
prove their figures, carefully OBJ
servant to get the right stance and
folIoW-through and posture.
Then they slump and go at their
housework any old way. No wonder
1t pulls so many of them out of
shape-when it ought to be as good
a workout as any SPORT Women
can make first-claSs conditioning
exercises out Of their housework. if
they'll only learn how to do it
right"
Form Is Important
2 1t makes no difference, then.
whether woman gets her exercise
in a gymnasium or a kitchen. lust
SO she gets the right kind And if
she tackles housework with the same
emphasis on form and stroke that
she'd give her golf game, it will do
the same thing for her figure.
Inc conclusions reached in the
Golfers study of houSeWork as ex-
erclse are, in part, the following:
It's a matter of mechanics. really
we study the instructions that come
with our labor saving devices and
run them with conscientious regard
Tor their efficiency and their expen-
Slve insides, and it's high time we
learned to do the same for the ma
chine that inevitably shares the
work or every one of then-the
houseWorker's own human body. For
That machine is designed on engi-
neering principles, too-if YOU use IL
correctly, it will run, as the saving
goes, like a bird-and with lust as
llttle slack muscle as a bird has.
too!
Proper Lifting Is Aid
and here's the catch. Even if
you don't care how tired you get.
or how your machine grinds and
protests, you always care when it
gets out of shape.
so, II houSework is your main
physical activity, make it a slender
lzlng instead Of a thickening. one
by using your bones and muscles
the right way-the way that retains
or regains the smooth-f flowing lines
of youth.
Take lifting, for example. For
generations that's done plenty of
damage to the female form divine.
But within reason, and properly
performed, the mechanics of flop
ping mattresses, shifting furniture
and lifting clothes baskets has all
the elements of first-clasS reducing
exercises. The idea is to use your
body as a lever, not as a derrick.
That is, don't collapse your Shoul-
ders and tug with your arms from
above-that simply bows you to
the unmistakable drudgery curve.
Instead, timber your knees and get
down under the weight.
Use Muscles of Hips
"Then contract the front muscles
Of your hips, thus automatically re-
leasing your back muscles so that
your hips drop down under you.
Now push up, letting the strength
come, not from your arms and back,
but from the strong central region
Of your hipS-and you not only hoist
the weight with the least possible
effort, but give a valuable strength
ening exercise to that broad, middle
band of muscles which, when prop
erly taut, will keep you f1atter than
The best girdle that ever came out
Of shop.
Even for lighter labor, you
should use your nip muscles as
much as possible. Push with them
when you reach up with the ceiling
brush after dust strings and stoop
with them when you get down into
corners with the dustpan."