The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-02
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GLOsItying Yourself
R Alicia Hart
NEA Service Staff Writer

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 If you are determined not to be the girl who has a wonderful time Saturday of the first skiing week end but who simply can't move away from the fireplace on Sunday, begin now to do special exercises for winter sports enthusiasts.
 'The woman who hasn't had ex- ercise of any kind since she stop ped swimming last August just cannot expect to escape having stiff, sore muscles after the first day of skiing" says attractive Suzanne Simon, Swiss-born exer- else director of a Fifth avenue salon. 'This goes for skating, too.
 Furthermore, aside from the unpleasant aspect of feeling pretty awful the morning following a day on the ski trails, there's the matter of being able to ski as well the first day of the season as you did On the last day of last season, ? Miss Simon continues.
 ''It's almost impossible to ski or skate with any degree of grace, skill or even pleasure if stomach, leg and ankle muscles are soft and flabby and quite unused to twisting and turning"
 TRY A WHISPER
 FOR SUPPLE WAIST
 To strengthen the muscles of the legs and make those of the waist line supple, the figure expert rec ommends this routine for would-be- proficient skiers:
 Stand with feet wide apart, weight on both of them. Hold hands in front of you as though you were carrying ski poles.
 Now bend knees slightly. Twist your body to the left, putting more weight on left foot, then turn to the right, shifting weight to right foot. Imagine that your body is a screw in a piece of wood. Turning to the right forces the screw down into the wood. Turning to the left pulls it back and out of the wood.
 The motions should be rhythmic not jerky. Simply Keep knees bent and shift weight from one foot to the other, turning body as you do so. The body always should turn in the direction in which the weight is being shifted.
 Now, placing hands lightly on the back of a chair, keep knees to- gether, then bend them and lower body until you are squatting on your heels. Do this deep knee bend with knees together ten or twelve times. Repeat with knees apart.
 To strengthen stomach muscles and, incidentally, to make stomach f1atter, do this exercise ten times day:
 Lie fiat on the floor with arms at sides and ankles together. With out moving shoulders, slowly raise legs until they are perpendicular to your body. Lower them just as slowly. This will make stomach muscles sore for day or two, but not for longer than that, and, of course, not half as sore as days skiing will make them if you aren't in condition for skiing.
 For the skater, Suzanne Simon recommends these routines:
 Bend one knee, lowering body to a squatting position, meanwhile stretching the other leg straight out in front, as shown in the pho tograph on this page. Balance your self by resting one arm lightly on the arm of chair. Reverse, bend- ing on the other knee and stretch ing the opposite leg straight out in front. Repeat twelve times a day.
 "Now stand in a doorway with hands on either side of it. Lift right leg as high as possible, keeping knee straight, then swing it around in circles. This limbers the hip joint. Reverse and repeat, standing on right foot, lifting left leg and swing ing it around in circles"