SLIMMING TO MUSIC
ENGLAND'S . LATEST CRAZE WOMEN OF 60 VERY KEEN [from oub own correspondent] By Air Mail LONDON, Oct. 19
The demand for gymnastics by girls and women is greater than the supply facilities. Wherever a new class is started the response is immediate. This is one of the facts revealed in an investigation by the Central Council of Recreative Physical Training. The council was founded some mouths ago to co-ordinate the work of every type of organisation devoted to physical activity. , , .. , , , . An official of the council stated in an interview: "A survey we have just completed shows that there are thousands of adolescents and nieh and women anxious to form 'Keep Fit classes. Among the most enthusiastic members are a great number of women no longer young. In the classes they find an idea opportunity of slimming on rational a class started recently in. a town not far from London," said the official, "there, are women up to 60 years of age. They are quite as keen as are the younger members. "Jfo —these women do not practise on the horizontal bar or the parallel bars. In fact, no sort of apparatus is used in the women'? classes; the usual bodily exercises are carried out, to musical accompaniment wherever possible."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22260, 7 November 1935, Page 18
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