Bingham Bulletin | 1949-08-05 | Page 3 | 30,000 Swedish Women Flex Muscles in Gyms

30,000-Swedish Women Flex Muscles in Gyms STOCKHOLM. Thirty thousand Swedish housewives, from girls of 20 to energetic grannies of 70, now belong to gymnastic groups and look forward to the weekly physical phys-ical training hour as a relaxation from household work and worries. They pay special attention to exercises for strengthening the back and feet, conditioning the washing-up muscles. Next summer sum-mer 5,000 of these muscular mothers will give a giant demonstration demon-stration of physical exercises at Stockholm as part of the great gymnastic display known as the Lingiad. The Swedes are pioneers of physical training. It was Pehr Henrik Ling who, at the start of the last century, invented physical phys-ical exercises without apparatus, known to our grandfathers as "Swedish drill."