Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1911 — The Outdoor Girl [ARTICLE]

The Outdoor Girl

Summer Exercise. Success in most outdoor sports de? ... pends upon how well one can breathe. Breathing exercises ire the most valuable. A reason for acquiring thia habit in the summer is that away on the mountains or by the sea one can avail oneself of the purest, most highly “oxygenated" air obtainable. Practice the following Yoga breathing: Close the left nostril and breathe through the right during eight seconds; close the right and exhale forcibly during two seconds through the left; inhale through the left during eight seconds; exhale through the right in two seconds. It is highly important that the lungs should be filled with air in these breathing exercises and that the breath should be retained during the period in which we can count slowly from six to twelve. Then the exhalation should be gradual, say pause, count two, exhale a little more, count twq, and so on. The muscles of the lungs will be strengthened and their capacity greatly increased in proportion as the ulr is first retained and then completely exhaled. Breathe deeply at all times,-but especially upon rising in the morning, and have the clothes loose enough to allow the ribs plenty of expansion. Pressure on the diaphragm makes violent exercise almost Impossible.