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Toby Wing has one of the most exquisite figures m all Hollywood. True, Toby was blessed with beauty to begin with; but she keeps lithe and lovely with exercise. Here Toby shows you how gaily Jim Davies' "upside down" exercise can be performed.
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HIS month I'm addressing myself chiefly to the advanced class of girls who are seeking better figures.
We are going into a series of extremely difficult exercises. Those of you who have been following my course for the past seven months — following it f atthfully so that you are able to go through the routines with ease and despatch— will be able to tackle the new ones I am about to outline.
I would say to beginners— don t attempt these until you have mastered simpler routines and your body is in good physical trim. I mean this warning and you must heed it ; these arduous exercises might do harm to your inner organs if undertaken otherwise.
I know you are impatient, but I am right about this. Remember, even those of you who are ready for the new exercises, you must go at them slowly and carefully at first. Don't overdo. Go easy. But don't give up because it hurts. It's going to hurt at first, of course it is. Fvery exercise hurts in the beginning because your muscles are naturally lazy and they don't want to work unless you make them, so they put in their protest, hoping to discourage you. If you are weak, you 11 give in to them. But don't be weak ! Stick with us and acquire the perfect body. Use your will power !
I'm calling these new exercises the Upside-Down Sit-Ups." The first three given are especially for the abdomen. So many of you write me complaining of "football stomachs," of "protuberances in front that are driving us crazy," of being unable to wear nice clothes because of bulges below the waistline. Here is the way
to eliminate the offending bulges about the middle.
Put one end of a six-foot board against the wall, so elevated that the surface of the board is on a decided slant. You may be able to slant a six-foot table so that you can do these exercises. But what we want is something resembling an old-fashioned cellar door — the kind you used to slide down at Grandma's when you were a kid.
If you can't do better, you can approximate the idea by wedging a chair firmly against a wall, with a high cushion below the seat (cushion on the floor and your seat, not the chair's).
Lie down on the board with your feet elevated as far as the top of the board permits. If you are using a chair, put your feet up on the chair and the cushion under your hips, your head, of course, resting on the floor.
1. Lie flat on back with arms stretched up over the head. Sit up and touch the toes with the hands — both hands together.
2. Lie flat on back with hands clasped underneath your head. Come up as far as you can go, and back again.
3. Lie flat on back as in 1, arms over head; using just the right hand sit up and touch right foot, with that hand. Again, using left hand, touch left foot. Then, touch right foot with left hand, and left foot with right hand.
You think this sounds simple, but try it. Still using your slanted board, or substitute : 1. Lying flat as before, grasp edges of board with both hands and lift both legs over the head, touching