Exercise 集

BREATHE. "There are two things in life we take for granted," says Carola Trier, a NYC specialist in exercise and body conditioning. "One is walking, the other is breathing, and most of us don't do either one correctly. (Vogue magazine April 1983)

Take a chair... that's the first direction for these four exercises, to be done at the beach or anywhere that suits. Each of the four has some special objective (specified later), but all four together are a part of the move toward firmness, tone, flexibility, strength. We took our own lessons for these photographs from body-conditioning teacher Carola Trier, steered by a young man named David Leddick.

(Vogue magazine June 1963)

Outside the will to exercise and the bodily power to exercise, there's a crucial layer of force. About which, good news. Proved improvable at almost any age, muscle tone can profit from a proper workout. From the work of the body-shrinkers, that is.

This means: exercise under good supervision. (Supervision abounds. Under the heading of reducing treatments, the Manhattan classified directory lists some seventy separate telephone numbers of body-shrinkers. And this yellow-pages array doesn't even include the exercise elite such taskmasters as Pilates, Kounovsky, Manya Kahn, Carola Trier, et cetera; nor the longes tablished specialists who perform their disciplines within the salons of Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein. (Vogue magazine June 1963)

Figure fault-finding. For quick, absolutely top analyses of what's wrong and what to do about it all told in one visit the new at-a- glance correction session at Nicholas Kounovsky is where the action is. Address, 9 West 57th Street. El 5-2385,

Figure sessions. For a steady Program, see the great Kounovsky, as above.... Or, on Jacobs' Beach, the system originated by the body. building master, Pilates, in his gym at 939 Eighth Avenue. Adored and followed by dancers, athletes, and civvies, his system does spot work as well as total stuff... Then, there are the tension-relax, ten- sion relax exercises which Manya Kahn couples with massage for fig ure-remaking (12 East 68th Street).... And the Carola Trier exercise (Address Book, continued page 109 More Beauty Bulletin, next page) (Vogue magazine January 1964)

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Skiing Magazine 1974 Sep

The pert young woman shown on these pages is Lydia Bach. She runs the Lotte Berk Method Studio, an exercise salon in New York City. Its patrons are all women. So the exercises she teaches are much too easy for the serious skier looking for a conditioning program to get those legs into shape-right? Wrong!

Shown here are some of the toughest thigh, stomach, and stretch exercises-all of vital importance to skiers-that you're ever likely to attempt. They may look easy-but done properly, they're murder.