ON KEEPING FIT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19931, 27 April 1928, Page 7

ON KEEPING FIT.

THE DAILY GOZEN. Keeping fit at the moment means keeping slim. This not only applies to the very young, but also to the middle-aged and elderly who do not see why they also should not- profit in the general smartening-up. Probably the. jungle film accounts for a good many methods of keeping fit, states a writer in. an exchange. There is the "bear roll," which is guaranteed to provide limberness in shoulders that might otherwise be stiff. There is the "tiger siink," which makes the muscles ripple like those in Jack London's novels. There is the "honey-pot rock," warranted to remove in the shortest possible time all redundant curves about the human equator. And to these must be added the less aesthetic methods of rolling on the bedroom carpet or doing "left," "right" with respective arms and legs. It is becoming customary, on noting increase of a healthy mind in a healthy body, to inquire of one's friends which particular method he or she has adopted.

The "bear roll" seems to be the most popular, most people being unable to cope satisfactorily with the "tiger slink." The "roll" consists in going down on all foura and then imitating as far as possible a bear out for a walk. The "honeypot, rock" implies sitting on the ground with one's knees drawn up and one's hands clasped round them. The rocker then throws himself to and fro in this position like a swing-boat. It is well to have a pilloV on the spot where ,the head is likely to land. Last and most difficult of these performances, but one which induces the maximum of slimness,. is the "boa-constrictor glide." Here it is necessary to wind' oneself round and round a stout kitchen chair without touching the ground, and the less there is of oneself the easier the task becomes. Those who become really expert at these exercises find it difficult to refrain from doing fhem when opportunity offers, and just as tha mention of the Charleston makes everyone's heels instinctively turn out so the mere sight of a kitchen chair is apt to arouse a passionato desire in a keeper-fit to wreathe himself roond its otherwise uninteresting form.