Keeping Fit

Not long ago, well-known athletics coach, Arthur Lydiard, told New Zealanders that we could add years to our lives by keeping fit. He directed this particularly at men and women who had played vigorous sport and then given it up with an increase in years. In Nelson, at the college gym, many men and women are keeping their bodies in good physical trim. We called in one evening to see the three classes working - women, fit men, and businessmen. These are some of the pix we got.

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The girls keeping the body beautiful under instruction from Kerry Williams

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This isn't very easy

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Businessmen's class is not quite as exacting as the fit men's, but this is hard work if you're not fit

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Pat Field shows us how on the trampoline

The younger men who are really physically fit through playing sport, are not spared and their training is strenuous but the businessmen's class is a little less rigorous. At the conclusion of group exercises they get a lot of fun and exercise out of padderminton and the trampoline.

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The fit men having a workout

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Harold Clark works out with the weights

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Bill Hall-Watson and a suffering colleague

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Gary Askew gets a ride from Len Smith

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George Griffith tones up with standing jumps

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The businessmen in a loosening-up run