EXERCISE COMPARED.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 138, 3 August 1911, Page 6

EXERCISE COMPARED.

. An interesting comparison of several I onus of exorcise is made in an American magazine by a doctor who has. specialiseci in the* subject, in exaniinin'O;j.tiio inadequacy of forms of exorcise to the body’s needs one must consider their effect on circulation, respiration, and digestion. The running high jump gives a great deal of work to certain muscles, but it does not incrca.sc the liea; t rate as running and other activities do, and unless a man jumps a great deal it does not have muclg ('fleet on the digestion. Those who have found dancing exhausting will bo interested to know that it is one of the best of exercises, and one of the severest; only a person with a strong circulatory system and vigorous lungs can become a good professional dancer. Bowling is an excellent exercise, because it accomplishes, the necessary things, but it is not one oh the best; a great deal of bowling piodncok slight spinal curvature, hut this never becomes serious. The sprinter should vary his runs with long walks’- Tennis may be dangerous to people of nervous temperament who play well. To play well demands intense concentration, which may cause too much nervous energy to lie expended. Mountain climbing fulfils the body’s requirements, “and so also does chasing butterflies.” Was ever mountaineering so insulted before? Billiards is a fair exorcise, but it is playe i indoors, and the ventilation is generally bad. Swinging a light pair of It dian clubs is not much more satisfactory than typewriting. Golf comes in for-high praise. It is pre-eminent-ly well suited to those who desire recreation and general outdoor exercise. It, takes a man out of doors and gives him exercise with his arms in making the strokes and with bis logs in walking about. Besides, “if is a social game, and so interesting that it quickly becomes a habit.” Wo are told that to aim at symmetry in exercise is wrong. Interest is highly imliortant, and to secure this wo should base our recreations upon activities that are racially old, and, if they are t) he useful, they must affect the body’s whole organic life as did the pursuits of the hunters and fishers of 1 old.