[Keeping Fit All the Way by Walter Camp]@TWC D-Link bookKeeping Fit All the Way CHAPTER VIII 8/12
With the toes at a slight outward angle, the heels touching and the body erect, he begins the movement by twisting the body a little more than half-way around; then swinging back in an arc, at the same time bending at the hips, until he has completed the circle and reached a hip-bending position, with the fingers of one hand touching the floor, the other extended vertically.
This gives a stretching movement to all of the muscles of the torso, side, back, and abdomen, as well as considerable play to the muscles of the legs and arms. THE UNPLEASANT SELF-AWAKENING We as a nation, through the revelation of the draft, have been suddenly thrown upon the public screen as physically deficient.
And that, too, when the echoes of the Eagle screaming over successes in the world Olympic games had hardly done sounding in our satisfied ears.
Naturally, we don't like it.
Deep down in our consciousness we are not only dissatisfied with the picture, but we feel that somehow it is distorted; we are hoping to prove that even a photograph does not always tell the truth, at least not the whole truth.
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