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Show Simple Exercise Needed to Keep Figure Trim Two or three simple exercises, prsctlced regularly and correctly, will do more to keep your figure trim and young than strenuous routines rou-tines Indulged now and than. Your body, liks skin, hair, nails, responds to regular care, not to hit or mlas attention. When you get up In the morning, morn-ing, take 10 very deep breaths before be-fore the open window. Now lie flat en your back en tha floor with arms at aides. Xseping heels en tha floor, raise toree until you are In a sitting position. Make stomach mueclea do the work. Go back' to the original position without moving mov-ing feet or touching handa to the floor. Both parts of ths exercise should be done slowly. Repeat five times. Keeping shoulders flat and arms on the floor at aides, raise both feet aa high aa possible. Don't bend knees. . Lower slowly. Repeat five tlmea. Thla Is much more difficult diffi-cult than it sounds. In fact it will make you quite tired the firet few timee you do It and la likaly to make stomach and back muscles sore aa well. However, repeat day after day until you can go through both stspa fairly easily. Within a month, you'll notice that your waistline waist-line is slimmer, that you walk and stand more gracefully. To reduce waistline and flatten stomach, lie on your face on the floor with hands, palms down, under un-der chest Raise upward until elbows el-bows are etralght Weight should be resting on toes and hands. Count 10, relax and repeat - Even If you are thin, try to walk at least a mile a day and do. limbering lim-bering and atretching routines regularly. reg-ularly. Just bscause there la no surplus poundage on your bones doesn't mean that your figure will stay supple and graceful without exercise. |