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Title: Keeping physically fit; common-sense exercises for the whole family
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Cromie, William J. (William James), 1877-
Subjects: Physical education and training
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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us energy underlyingthought is discharged to the muscles involvedin speech and gesture. Both voice and gesturecan be modified to convey subtile shades ofthought and feeling, which cannot find expres-sion in writing. Talking then is stimulatingin proportion to the gesture accompanying it.We can see how impressive gesture is in themovement of the arm in the German and theshrug of the shoulder in the Frenchman, theminister and the public speaker, in order toemphasize what is being said, and they therebyget more physical exercise than one would sup-pose. School teachers and those who use the voicemuch diu-ing the day need less physical trainingthan others. In fact, few things are more cal-culated to stimulate the body or to arouse itfrom lethargy than animated conversation. Intalking as in laughing, singing, shouting andcrying, in-breathing is short, while out-breathingis prolonged, and this is an excellent form oflung gymnastics. Dr. Campbell claims thattalking is conducive to longevity.
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A B Fig. 39From position A, hands behind neck, head lowered for-ward and elbows forward, inhale deeply as elbows are forcedbackward and head raised as in position B. Exhale from Bto A position. 108 Keeping Physically Fit Its Effects and the Best Kind of Exercises Deep breathing highly oxygenates the bloodand eliminates waste products from the body.There is an exchange of gases which takes placebetween the capillaries and the tissues in whichthe blood from the lungs parts with its oxygenand absorbs carbon dioxide which is thrown outin the breath. The brain is affected by deepbreathing as is shown by its tendency to causegiddiness, but this feeling soon wears off in thosewho cultivate the habit. W. Marcet, M. D., F. R. S., says that deepbreathing increases the power of sustainednervous effort. He claims that a man who inordinary breathing lifted a weight of four poundstwo hundred times in succession after a restand deep breathing for two minutes lifted thesame weight seven hundred times

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