ISOMETRICS

Body-building the easy way

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[I YOU want to keep down

that waistline or tone up

those flabby muscles _ but
haven’t the money for fancy
gymnastic equipment or costly
lessons at a health salon and
you just can’t work up enough
energy to do a daily dozen of

knee and back bends, your an-
swer may be—isometric exer- —

cises.

Isometrics. can be performed
by everyone — men, women and
youth —and anywhere—sitting,
standing or lying down. They
can even be performed in the
presence of others without them
knowing it.

Isometric exercises are based
on the principle of one set of
muscles working against an-
other. Traditional exercises,
known as “isotonic,” strengthen
a muscle by moving it. With
isometrics, the muscle does not
move at all; instead it contracts,
but in doing so it stimulates.
nearly 100 percent of the
muscle’s thousands of fibres, as
compared with 50 to 60 percent
in isotonic exercise.

Illustrated alongside this ar-
ticle are nine isometric exer-
cises designed especially for
workers in sedentary occupa-
tions. All you need is a chair,
a heavy desk or table and one
and a half minutes a day.

By devoting six seconds for
each set of the nine exercises,
every day, you can double
your strength in six months,

Hold your breath while you
do each exercise, exert full
force during the six seconds,

MOVIES

then relax for a few seconds
before going on to the next ex-
ercise.

(1) Pull Up — For arms and
shoulders. Sit straight, grasp
sides of your chair tightly with
both hands and pull up as hard
as possible. Hold for 6 seconds.

(2) Hand Press — For arms,
chest and shoulders. Sit straight,
chest out, arms held across
chest. Place one fist inside the
other hand. Press together for

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Zorba the Life-Force,
lesson for ‘unco guid’

Life is harsh and raw and
brutal and tender and tragic and
funny and wonderful. Dum vivi-
mus, vivamus. While we live,
let us live.

That’s the lesso:: of Zorba
the Greek, and Anthony’ Quinn
as Zorba, a rough-hewn rousta-
bout, is a living shout of “Yes”
to life. His exuberance and his
passionate love for wine, wo-
men, dancing, work and song—
in approximately that order—is
an effective rebuke to all the
unco guid, the Holy Willies and
Holy Hannahs of our time.

In the lusty film version of
Nikos Kazantzakis’ famous
novel, Quinn teaches the lesson
of life to Alan Bates, a shy and
inhibited Englishmen who comes
to Crete to re-open an_inheri-
ted lignite mine. The project
fails but the lesson succeeds,
and in a final hilarious scene
Quinn and Bates dance the dance
of life on the sands of time.

Brilliant as Quinn is, acting
‘ honers go to Lila Kedrova for

her flawless portrayal of Ma-
dame Hortense, an aging French
cocotte who was once a famous
cabaret dancer and the mistress
of four admirals. Her Oscar as
best supporting actress at last
week’s Academy Awards was
a foregone conclusion.

Irene Pappas is a lonesome
widow desired by many men of
her village. The: part has little
dialogue and demands acting
ability of exceptional. standards.
In a tender love scene with
Bates she proves why she is
regarded as Greece’s finest act-
ress.

Mention must be made of the
extras, ordinary citizens of Crete
selected by producer-director
Michael Cacoyannis. They are
entirely believable, if chillingly
cruel, and the scene in which
they stone and fatally stab the
widow who has
shockingly plausible.

A memorable movie, a decid-
ed must-see.
—Bert Whyte.

“sinned” is

six seconds using all strength of
your arms and shoulders.

(8) Back Pull — Keep back
straight and lean forward until
you can grasp your legs or
braces of chair. Pull straight up

for six seconds using back
muscles only.
(4) Neck Pressure — _ Sit

straight, hands clasped behind
your neck, elbows held forward.
Pull forward with both hands,
at same time pressing head
backwards. Hold for 6 seconds.

_Also has a relaxing éffect.

(5) Stomach Tightener — For
waist and abdomen. Sit with
legs together, extended straight
out. Bend forward, grasp legs
just below the knees. Press
down with hands, at same time
pressing up against the hands
with both legs. Hold for six
seconds.

(6) Criss-Cross — For chest
and legs. Sit on chair, feet about
four inches apart. Bend forward,
place hands against inside of
opposite knees. Try to press
knees together while at same
time holding them apart with
hands. Hold for six seconds.

(7) Body Lift — For shoul-
ders, arms, abdomen. Sitting
with back straight, lean forward
and place your hands, palms
down, against the sides of your
chair. Hold legs straight out,
trying to raise body about one
inch off the chair. Hold for six

‘seconds.
(8) Leg Squeezer — Sit for- .

ward on edge of chair, lean
back, legs straight out. Hook
one foot over other and hold
tightly. Rest feet on floor, legs
Straight, and try to pull feet
apart. Hold for six seconds.

(9) Arm Curl — Sit straight,
grasp underside of heavy desk
or table, palms up, forearms
parallel to desk. Push up as
hard as possible for six seconds.

Cigarettes, in my. estimation,
Are a kind of do-it-yourself cremation.

A GOVERNMENT survey shows that only 19 percent of |
Canadians in my age group smoke cigarettes. That
may qualify me to think out loud on the subject. a
begin with, why do cigarette advertisers call their prodU@
king-size? Most kings are runts.due to inbreeding and U”
fact that they do no physical work and even less menta
Can it be because it was the king-size that gave the tale
King George lung cancer? a
When health authorities broke through the newspape
censorship and exposed the dangers of. smoking, the
dustry’s answer was (1) a longer cigarette; (2) A filter
which might reduce the danger 10 percent or so but off
that by letting you smoke all the tobacco; (3) To steP f
their advertising: the industry now allots five percent © |
its proceeds to coaxing people to buy against only one P& |
cent for most products. :
It seems to me the first step in slowing down cigarellt |
sales is to forbid all cigarette advertising. That has beet
done in Italy I believe and in the Soviet Union I knoW
This is coupled in the latter case with a publicity campa! 4 |
pointing out the health hazards in smoking. To my mit”
this is partly offset by the low cost—in money—of the |
smoking habit: I have bought a package of 20 cigarette
for as little as 12 cents. But as with alcoholism they do?”
seem to think that high prices are the answer. They M4 4
be right. ee
I went to a clinic in Moscow. The doctor who oa
cussed the ulcers from which I was then suffering launchet
out on cigarettes. My interpreter said: “you almost Sc#” |
me into swearing off.” The doctor replied: “I almost sc4™ |
myself.” :

Then I went before a heart specialist: No more clg#
ettes was the edict. :

I asked for yellow oxide of mercury because it cur |
inflammation of the eyelids which bothers me every fae
years or so. They refused it and sent me to an occulls |
instead. She gave the same order: no cigarettes. Anothé
doctor put her hand under the bed clothes and felt my
feet. “You’ve been smoking,” she accused: correctly.

They don’t say cigarettes cause lung cancer, hea
trouble, bad circulation, eye trouble; they do say it predi® |
poses to the first and worsens the rest and many more. :
lung cancer they have unanswerable statistics: in regi”
where women smoke about as much as men they get lume
cancer about as often. Where they smoke only 20 percet
as often, they get only 20 percent as much. In one region |
the Pamir if I remember rightly, where hardly any mn
or women smoke there is hardly any lung cancer. Thes
facts are hammered home all the time. (One friend, I thin
he was kidding, said the campaign against alcohol reveal?”
opposite dangers to the campaign against tobacco. So ie
who smoke started to drink, those who drank starte
smoke.)

Here there are only intermittent and attenuated

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paigns against either: the tobacco and alcohol interests |
have too much money at stake — and the press wa?
advertising.

P.S. | have a feeble will: | still smoke, though down to two packs 8 wel

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