Stretching & Exercise

At home, at leisure (Cont'd) You don't need a drill master to up. Nicholas Kounovsky has worked out these stretching positions to do at home. They are not like most exercises they will not make you all hot and breathy. The idea is just to be able to reach any of these postures, any day of your long life.

As long as you can, you are supple and a daily check is necessary. Your body, through lack of free use, through constant tensions, through the mental discipline that the years impose, can suddenly freeze into an attitude of age. All motion becomes parsimonious, and the body tends to be used as little and as economically as possible. The spine stretching positions on the preceding pages can be followed ..... (Vogue magazine March 1947)

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EXERCISE GETTING INTO THE SWING "Fitness makes for jay in living. And nothing is mare easily attained-if you exercise properly." Nicholas Kounovsky speaking, and he ought to know. He's been shaping up people in his New York studio for over twenty-five years. And if the knack of vitality is exercise, the knock of exercise is getting into the swing of it every day. The pretty body here, has. She's in the midst of Inverted Suspension-great for circulation, balance, grace. This is one of three one-minute exercises designed by Kounovsky to do daily, morning and night, on his Nakbar.

(Vogue magazine January 1972)

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1. Nichalas Kounovsky, fsar of the parallel bars, rings, ladders. trapezes (and inventor of the Nok Bar, right), has converted legions to the belief that "fitness should be pleasure of living, not a chore or a bore.... we were born physical, you can't change that." What he'd like to change-improve develop are what he calls the six vital factors: endurance, suppleness, balance, strength, speed, coordination. All are dealt with in his "sixometric" exercises, some using the gym props, some not. But "everybody does everything, then you can work on your special weakness... legs, abdomen, tension spots. Inverted hanging is good for tension, loos ons the vertebrae, aids circulation. An interesting exercise."

(Vogue magazine August 1972)

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What are the "hot" exercise spots in Beverly Hills these days? Phyllis George and Cheryl Tiegs go to Richard Simmons of Ruffage, 9306 Santa Monica Blvd.; Candice Bergen and Ali MacGraw, to Ron Fletcher, 95451/2 Wilshire Blvd. K-I-M, Kim Lee's exercise salon, is where actress Jane Seymour, left, im- proves her posture on the famous Universal Body Reformer (also in- stalled in the Gregory Peck family's gym). You can do Kim's posture improver on your own- just remember to keep back flat.

(Vogue magazine October 1978 )

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