The 100-UP Exercise

THE "100-UP)' EXERCISE By its Inventor, W. G. GEORGE Holder of the World's One-Mile Running Record, 4 min. 121 sec.) CHAPTER I. ITS BIRTH AND HIST RY. \Vith the invigorating action of walking and running a a basis, and de igned for the purpo e of providing a natural system of home-training exerci e to be u ed as an adjunct to, or a sub titute for outdoor training and recreation, the " 100-1.Jp" Exercise should be known and practised by all. Its birth wa the outcome, on the one part, of a perforce curtailed opportunity for outdoor recreation, and, on the other part, of a craving for health-giving exercise such as the body and limb had grown accu - tomed to from early boyhood. It was when I b came articled in 1874 to chemistry at \\?orcester, that, as an indoor apprentice, I first mi -ed the freedom of the open air and the joy of outdoor exercise. My father loved the open country of the Wiltshire wilds and inculcated in his children a like 1 assion ; yet here was I, a youth of sixteen,