HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1979-10-18, Page 21BY ALICE GIBB
Do you feel tired, run down k every
Step an effort by the end of he day? Qris
your major daily physical, ,activity Just
'getting up in the morning or going back
and forth between the refrigerator and
your easy chair at night?
If you fit either of these descriptions,
then maybe a tonic is in order a tonic
phYSieal.fitriesS•
Lynn Devereaux, Who tcaches
the Ladies. Keep Fit program at the
Seaforth District High School night pro-
gram, is a convincing exponent of good
health. The secret to her own healthy
.aPPearaliee iS a fitness prograM, Which she
started about five years ago, and which
ipcludes jogging, yoga exercises and
aerobics.
Mrs, Flevereaor, who took a Y -Fitness
Instructor' course in London, taught fitness
programs for the YWCA while living in,
London, and this summer, has led the
Ladies Fitness Night sponsored by the
Scaforth rec department,
The basic philosophy behind Lynn's
fitness program is raising your heart rate -
and raising it by a combination of exercises,
or activities which improve flexibility',
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muscular endurance' and aerobics,
The :fitness adveCate said wben a Person
'gets tired, laCtic acid builds up in the body -
In order to. burn ,Off tbis acid PIA feel
better, you have to rase your pulse rite 40
Per Pent above your normal or resting pulse
Fate (that's your Pidse in the moruteit,
while still resting in bed.) As you gradually,
raise your heart rate, you. also raise YOU!'
.anti -fatigue level.
The first step in tuning your aerobic
system, and getting rid of lactic acidis to
,start at your threshold level and work up
from there.
To find your threshold leVel you take the
number 220, minus your age, minus 60.
AneS
Aerobics, simply defined,°alis the amount
of air you take into your lungs. The body
needs oxygen to exercise, and if you aren't
getting enough oxygen, then you'll feel
tired. The fitter you are, the more oxygen
the body uses.
Some of the easiest ways to tune your
aerobic system include activities like
bicycling, swimming, walking and Lynn
Devereaux's favorite, jogging. Although
walking might sound like the easiest way to
start an exercise program, you have to walk
for one hour and a half compared to
jogging for 30 minutes to do the same
amount of good.
One aerobic exercise is simply to walk up
and dori stdirs for a set period of time
each day, The most important part of any
aerobic exercise is to keep moving - that's
what keeps your heart rate increasing.
Now if you're out of shape, and want to Allelgoof
start a modified exercise program, the r
main thing is to start gradually - for
example, doing some aerobic exercises for
15 minutes a day, at least three times a
week Some of the positive results of an
exercise program should' include losing
some weight, getting rid of lowerback
pain, feeling generally more fit and less
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4.
situps Are bent knee Situps, since the aimi.5
to exercise your stomach muscles, rather
than those in your lower back. The ,fitness,
instructors said you stiouldl never do*
straight leg situps, but instead either have
Someone hold your feet or else put them,
under somthing like a. chair or couch Which,
you can use as g propto poll yourself up.
The fitness instructor believes the secret
of any exercise program is to get into a
routine. When she worked, if she was
going in on the later shift she jogged for
an hour in the morning and when working
the early shift, she saved her jogging until
evening.
While LYnn.Prefers jogging alone, she
saidanyone preparing for a competition
Will want to jog with someone else for
Paging.
Lynn started her own fitness program
with jogging and then added exercise
routines. She said jogging is fine, but done
by itself it strengthens the legs and tunes
aerobics, but doesn't improve your overall
titileSS level.
She also advocated varying the route you
take jogging. If you.follow exactly the same
route each time, then you're exercising the
identical muscles each time. She said if
nothing, else, it's at least best to switch
directions every now and then.
EQUIPMENT
for anyone considering taking up the
In addition to the exercises already
mentioned, Lynn said a 'total fitness
program should also include:a sensible,
nutritious diet and getting anadequate
amount of rest.
• While aerobics is important, so are
exercises to increase your flexibility and
muscular endurance.
Some of the more common flexibility
exercises include most yoga exercises,
hurdler's stretch, straddle stretch and
-other stretching, exercises. Muscular
endurance routines include situps, push-.
ups and lifting weights, which isn't
THE WISHBONE—Here Lynn Devereaux, who is expecting her first necessarily an activity for men only.
child in the New Year, demonstrates the wishbone exercise • which PROPER SITUPS
ekercises the groin muscles, (Expositor photo) Lynn Devereaux said the best kind of
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'ENNISKILLEN CENTURY FARM—Thomas and Jane Livingston came in
1854 to settle:'' on this farm. More than 100 years later, ,his.
great -great-grandson and his wife, ()avid and Gail, are still farming on
the same 100 aCres.
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Brick,
home to five generations
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sport of jogging, there's one piece of
equipment which Lynn feels is a must - and
that's a good pair of running shoes,
preferably designed especially for jogging
Or running. The fitness instructor recom-
mends you buy them one-half to one full
size larger than your ordinary shoes. The
shoes should have good arch supports and
be wide -soled, so that you're spreading the
pressure on a larger area when running.
Lynn said good jogging shoes will 'likely
cost $30 and up, and they're more likely to
be found in sports shops than shoe stores.
The other important point for novice
joggers to remember is that you have to jog
at your own fitness level. For example, you
might start out jogging an eighth of a mile
a night, and gradually build up level by
level. If you get winded and start AO
breathe in gasps, then it's likely you've
reached your level for the time being.
EXERCISING
Lynn also has a number of tips for
anyone working at a personal exercise
program, drawn from her experience
teaching fitness classes, The first thing is
to start out gradually with a warmup
program, so your muscles can loosen up,
gradually and won't he sore the next day,
When exercising at home, Lynn recom-
mended stretching exercises, running up
and down the stairs, skipping or running
on the spot all geared to raising your
heart rate,
From there, the next !kg isit, the
1'10)01)04Y eaerelsea, since your IttniKlei s
now loosened up, Then Itainadar enrIttr'
once exercises including pushups kg
raises, lifting weights or any other exercise,
geared to strengthening your mitsclea,
Finally, come aerobics any exerciaeS,
which keel) you moving Snell. LS WWI iike'
SoCcer, basketball, breemball, 'hockey Or
r-anoeing,
The final step 444001 down period, Since
your heart rate is up and blood is rushing to
,your extremities, you want to slow *own
gradually, avoiding dizziness and nausea,
MSO, the Cool down exercises relax you and
relieve the day's tension.
Cool down exercises are largely stretch-
ing and :deep breathing exercises, as well
as tightening muscle groups and then
relaxing them. This automatically refuel
those parts tA the body you've tightened
,p.
DANGER SIGNALS
Although exercises are basically good for
you, there are some danger signals to
watch fOr, Lynn Devereaux,advises if your
heart rate after a workout is above the
threshold level or if you're dizzy and
gasping for breath, then obviously you're
working too hard, Fitness is something you
work at gradually
If anyone doubts the value of physical
fitness, they only have to look at someone,
like Lynn who's obviously committed to a
routine fitness program, It's enough to
make the challenge of getting back into
shape worthwhile,
SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY,. OCTOBER 18, 1979 [Second Section Pages 1A — 8A]
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TUNING UP. --These Louite Nicholson., Debbie Dillon, Bessie
Broome and fitness instructor Lynn Devereaux are tuning,„ up their
aerobics in a fast -paced game of floor hockey during the Ladies Fitness .
Night, sponsored by the Seaforth rec. department. (Expositor photo)
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5 years o
BY LISE GVNBY
Inherent in the owner Ahip of a century
farm is a very special sense of pride - not
only are you tied to the land by sweat and
labour, you are bound by familial blood.
In 1967, this unique relationship was
acknowledged with the distribution of
century farm signs to those properties
which had been farmed by the same family
for mote than 100 years.
David Livingston still has the farm, s
original Canada Company deed issued to
his great, great grandfather, Thomas.
Livingston, in 1854,
The first generation farmer tame with
his wife, Jane, to Canada from Enniskillen,
Ireiand, when the farm was largely bush
and 100 acre plots were being measured
cart Thomas was only 18, his wife was 16.
He was able to sign his name on the deed,
but Jane, unable to Write, marked her
signature with an X.
The 100 acreare still intact - the land
Cleared for crops, but the house yard grown
Up in trees and flowers.
LOG CABIN
The original homestead was a log cabin
on the corner of the first sidetoad off
Highway 8 toward Einburn, The second
home, the one standing today, was built
from yellow brick, 1% storeys high, It
measures squarely, roams 23 feet by 13
feet on either side of the central hall, which
is graced by a largc. doorway surrounded
by 34 panes of glass,
The wallsmade from three layers of
brick and attached directly to plaster with
no studding, were covered two years ago
With white aluminum siding: The Original
porch. once running the length of the front
of the bouSehas been replaced by an open'
patio and steps. But Davidwho did the •
work, saved the original gingerbread trim,
The first Livingston family had nine
children. David and his wife, Gail, have
four: Larry, 21, Shirley, 17. Billy, 16 and
Lance, 15 -The entire family has plenty of
room, with five bedrooms, a large pool
rooni for the fifth generation, living room,
den, bathroom, utility room (Mite' the
pantry), and kitchen.
They moved in three years ago t� take
over the farm from David's father; They
had lived across the road, in a Smaller
home; and appreciated the spacious new
house.
"It's warm and it's Comfortable and
when we moved in we hist sort of spread:
out," says Gail.
In the large, country kitchen they keep
big, old white stove; in the living room is a
Franklin fireplace'. The 'furnishings are
cosy - antiques have been Saved over thc
generations,
The, press -back chairs lit the kitchen are
originals. used by the Livingstons over um
years. In the entrance hall there is a stand
made in Berlin, Ontario - now known as
Kitchener. Upstairs ,is a "bonnet chest,"
equipped with deep drawers for hats, and
made out of bird's eye maple, black cherry
and walnut.
ANTIQUES.
Their daughter, Shirley, sleeps On the
same bed that her great grandmother slept
on. The poolroom, dominated by a full-size
tablewas one the master bedroom.
Behind the main part of the house is the •
garage, formally a woodshed, and initially
a wash house with a double plank floor.
The hand-hewn beams are still visible. •
David now has cash crops, His father
had a mixed farm. When David was
growing up on the (min he used, to find
arrowheads - the remnants of the Huron
Indians that once roarni.d on the land, The '
original barn was ourned in 1942, the
present barn was rebuilt shutter.
Gail Was born in Mountain Grove, north
of Kingstonand lived near Dungannon for
some time. In 1974, she went back to
school; and, in 1916, she graduated as a
nurae. She is now working full-time in
Oodcricti.
David was the only son to Barry on the
flint, With four children, they hope to see
at least One of them carry on,th6 Livingston
tradition toward the second' century.
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A CENTU RY FARM—Flowers, trees and lawn
orariarnehts grace the front yard at the
Livingstone farm. The place was first settled by
Thomas Livingstone in 1854.
(Expositor Photo)
FOURTH GENERATION. bavidsLivirioittme
and his wife Gail are raising the fifth Ontorstiort
of Livingstones to live on the Willy farts Mar
Milburn. (Expositor Photo)