Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1903 — Walk and Retain Health. [ARTICLE]

Walk and Retain Health.

Walking is the simplest, the most natural and the most wholesome of all exercises. No athlete ever trains for a contest, no matter what its nature may be, without walking a considerable distance in the open air each day. Many keep in vigorous health by this alone, and no matter what other exercise you take you must walk. But, first of all, learn lfdfw to walk. A great many people walk in an aimless, shuffling manner and secure but little benefit from the exercise. In walking for exercise the effect is better if the mind Is directed toward some pleasurable end. Walk with consciously directed movement until you have brought every muscle under perfect control of your will. > Moping along in an aimless fashion, lackadaisical manner does little good physically and harms one mentally. The necessity of maintaining a proper, erect position of the body must, says a writer In the April Cosmopolitan, be borne in mind. Bear the weight on the balls of tlu* feet, keep the shoulders back and down, the chest high, but do not hold the al>domen Inward, as is taught by many athletic Instructors. Let it be relaxed, for this part of the body should move In and out with each breath. There should be perfect freedom to breathe normally. —New York World.