Thursday, January 07, 2010

GREAT-grandfather knew best

image In the last 48 hours, I have seen advertisements on TV for dozens of fitness systems and machines that all claim to have discovered the “secret” to a fitter, trimmer you. I also realized I stay up too late watching bad cable TV.

I stumbled upon a text (now available online) that was printed in 1904. Yes, when Teddy Roosevelt was President of the United States. Take a moment to read some of the topics.

You will find that a number of these “new discoveries” are just time tested common sense in a nice, shiny package.

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Larry Bodine said...

Here's my favorite from 1904:
"Food and Exercise. -No muscular
exercise can be carried on except at the expense of tissue, just as there can be no steam-power except at the expense of coal."

http://www.exrx.net/ExInfo/History2/Exercise.html#anchor1874295

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