To Keep in Shape: Act Like an Animal
- Feb 17, 2022
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Updated: Feb 22, 2025
FEBRUARY 12, 1962 SI STAFF FEB 11, 1962
Contrology has something to do with rational tension and relaxation of the muscles, and it comes from a profound knowledge of bodily kinetics learned in no classroom. Joe figured out the principles, he says, three quarters of a century ago in Germany by watching children at play and animals in the forest.
Later when he was a boxer and circus tumbler he found his exercises relaxed him after an exhausting day. Laid' still, interned with his circus and hundreds of other Germans on the Isle of Man during World War I, he took charge of physical training, and no man. he says, who exercised by his principles came down with influenza in the great epidemic.
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