Healthy living . Fig. i8a. Fig. iSb. Fig. i8.—Setting-up exercises, No. Ill: the swimming exercise.(a) Second position, (b) Third position. Number III. The Swimming Exercise. 1. Stand with the feet apart sideways and the . body bent sHghtly forward, keeping the headraised and the eyes upward. 2. Bring the hands together in front of the waist, carry them upward and forward closeto the body past the neck and face, and asfar forward and upward as possible. (SeeFig. 18a.) 3. Turn the palms outward, separate the hands, and swing the arms backward, outward, anddownward, as a person does when he swim
Healthy living . Fig. i8a. Fig. iSb. Fig. i8.—Setting-up exercises, No. Ill: the swimming exercise.(a) Second position, (b) Third position. Number III. The Swimming Exercise. 1. Stand with the feet apart sideways and the . body bent sHghtly forward, keeping the headraised and the eyes upward. 2. Bring the hands together in front of the waist, carry them upward and forward closeto the body past the neck and face, and asfar forward and upward as possible. (SeeFig. 18a.) 3. Turn the palms outward, separate the hands, and swing the arms backward, outward, anddownward, as a person does when he swims.(See Fig. iSb.) 4. Again let the finger tips meet in front of the waist. 40 HEALTHY LIVING Repeat this exercise five or six times. Take the move-ments slowly. Always keep the chest arched, the eyesup, and the head back a little. Things that Prevent Us from Holding the Body a bent or deformed body is the result ofbad habits of sitting, formed perhaps in school. See ifthe desk and seat at school
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