EXERCISES IN CHURCH.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 151, 27 May 1938, Page 8

EXERCISES IN CHURCH.

PHYSICAL CULTURE EXPERT. 1 LONDON, April 14. Dressed only in a pair of' white trunks and gymnasium shoes, Geoffrey Guy, a 22-year-old clerk, led members of a Dorchester church congregation in • physical exercises last Sunday. Guy stood at-the foot of the pulpit in the Poole High Street Methodist Church to demonstrate for Mr A. A. Campbell, physical 'training organiser to the Dorset Country Council, who was addressing members of the Postwar Brotherhood on health and fitness. He did exercises which would prevent round shoulders, “'middle-aged spread” and tightness of the thigh muscles. When Guy was doing arm-swinging, male members of the congregation were invited ‘o.ioin in. Six of them stood up and followed his actions. As Guy was undressing in an anteroom he showed a reporter his powerful muscles, and said: ‘‘That is brought about not by trying to do G-men stuff, but by simple exercises which bring about suppleness. I have only been doing this since the beginning of the winter.” _ ' At one period during Guy s demonstration he lay flat on the floor, and congregation had to stand up to watch him.