| The contraction of each fibril is necessary for its cleansing from effete material. Exercise is Nature’s method of keeping this house of ours in good order. Besides good health, exercise will repair inherited and acquired defects. Hatfield, 51, 257. |
| Daily Hatfield, 111. | Tennis, croquet, boating, skating, fencing, tricycling, horseback riding, walking, sparring, dumb bells, running, push-ups, squeezing a ball, driving, chopping, fencing single-stick, batting, lacrosse, pulling one’s self up with one hand or both, polo, hopping, walking up hill, jumping. Hatfield, 111, 259-69. |
| Very active exercise should not be taken after a full meal. Active exercise before breakfast is not generally beneficial. Hatfield, 258. | Exercise shall be continued until a feeling of glow or warmth of surface, or a slight perspiration. It can be continued beyond this point without harm, but the value of exercise is reached before this point. Fatigue is always a sign of needed rest or a change in mode of exercise. Hatfield, 258-9. |