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Title: Keeping physically fit; common-sense exercises for the whole family
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Cromie, William J. (William James), 1877-
Subjects: Physical education and training
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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re apt to be closed against tainted subjects. Common-sense Exercise Any kind of physical training which bringsthe desired results may be termed common-sense exercise. All out-of-door sports are ex-cellent because one gains from the highly oxy-genated air. Walking is second to none as anexercise, because it is natural, beneficial, pleas-ing, and safe. Nervousness, sleeplessness, andindigestion are poor pedestrians and will neverovertake one who walks much under the opensky. Horace Greeley said that walking two orthree hundred miles in a clear, calm Octoberwas one of the cheap, wholesome luxuries of life,as free to the poor as to the rich. I would not,however, limit it to one month, but make itgood for all twelve. Walking is one of the best exercises for chil-dren. In fact, a noted authority claims that anormal human being walks more at the age ofsix than at any other period of life. A walk ofa few city blocks may be a simple exercise, butthirty or forty miles becomes very difficult and
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46 Keeping Physically Fit quite complex. By^ walking one can in a dayreach the greatest maximum of labor of whichthe human body is capable, and this withoutstrain. It is, then, an excellent form of exercisefor the athletically inclined young man orwoman. For those in middle Hfe and the agedit is one of the best exercises, because it pro-duces the maximum of good results with the leastamount of effort. Even among invalids, orduring convalescence when exercise can be in-dulged in at all, walking is the best, as it can bedone without strain. The reason that strain islargely eliminated is due to the even distribu-tion of the effect of its practice over the entiresystem of muscles, many of which are the strong-est in the body. None of these muscles needs tobe taxed to its full capacity, but may be used ina slight or moderate way. The addition of theseshght efforts in a five or six mile walk daily willtotal a summary that becomes a potent force inacquiring and keeping health. Begin with ami

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