Keeping physically fit; common-sense exercises for the whole family . afflicted with neurotic conditions andthat he belonged in the ^Steve Brodie^ class. Scarcely a year after this conversation heone day collapsed in the street and took anenforced rest for several months at the sea-shore. His proud boast afterward was that itrequired three physicians to accomplish thework he had been doing. Every mental or sedentary worker shouldhave the steady influence of some harmless fador sport dissociated from business or profes-sion, and I can suggest none better than somekind of pleasurable activity. T
Keeping physically fit; common-sense exercises for the whole family . afflicted with neurotic conditions andthat he belonged in the ^Steve Brodie^ class. Scarcely a year after this conversation heone day collapsed in the street and took anenforced rest for several months at the sea-shore. His proud boast afterward was that itrequired three physicians to accomplish thework he had been doing. Every mental or sedentary worker shouldhave the steady influence of some harmless fador sport dissociated from business or profes-sion, and I can suggest none better than somekind of pleasurable activity. This may takethe form of walking, playing golf or tennis,gardening, raising chickens, or performing ex-ercises such as are described in this it is, seek it as a pleasant recreation;put your whole heart into it and make of it ahobby. A man who has passed middle age makesthe objection, ^I do not like exercise, because Itire more easily than I used to. If I go upstairsvery fast, I become breathless and my pulsethrobs in my temples painfully. What would. A B Fig. 3.—^The Rolling ExekciseSit on the floor as in A. Keep knees stiff. Reach forwardand touch feet, then roll backward as in B. From position B,lower legs to floor, then raise body to position A. 10 Keeping Physically Fit be the use in my exercising, as I am too old andheavy to come back ? It is the lack of exerciseand wrong habits of hving that have broughtabout these conditions. In early life an excessof nutrition is well borne on account of muchmuscular activity. As a man becomes less ac-tive, the need for food should diminish, but thehabit of eating heartily continues, and oftengrows apace. The result is a steady departure from theproper balance of waste and repair. Dependingon the amount of exercise taken, the food supplyshould be cut down after forty years of age, andthe proportion of meat in the dietary greatly re-duced. Meat is seldom required more than oncea day, and intoxicating liquors never. Thed
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