The 100-UP Exercise

44 THE "100- P" EXERCISE The main thing to remember is correct action. See that the knees are brought up at each stride to the level of the hip if possible, or as near to this point as can be managed by the too-fat or bodily-infirm individual, and that the body maintains its correct perpendicular. The exercise at first sight looks so easy of accom– plishment that one might very well think it possible to go to a thousand up. This is the result of not raising the knees to the prescribed height-the main point of the exercise-or of " galloping" through a short-timed movement in incorrect form. Get a friend to watch yo~t at your practice and to correct any shortcomings in your leg action or poise of the body, and you will find the difference. No single part of the minor " 100- p" must be performed careks ly– if the desired benefit is to result. Correct form once attained, the exercise may be increased in severity by gradually working from 10 to 20, 30 to 40, and so on up– to the '' 100- p" at each session, and by speeding– up the pace. The Maj or Exercise. This exercise is more difficult of accomplishment,. yet comes easy to the student who by reason of having attained correct form in the preceding preparation will have, at the same time, acquired strength and th art of properly balancing the body when in action. Stand on the lines marked on the ground as before,. except that the body must be balanced on the ball of the