Canadian Military Excercises, 1950's - Film 15442
Canadian military keep fit exercises.
A man from the Royal Canadian Air Force talks about fitness. A man stands in his pyjamas beside his bed and does callisthenics. Four men do sit ups, and other exercises in the barracks. A man does jumping jacks in his back yard while his wife looks on.
An air crew in the mess hall. An announcement comes over the Public announcement system, they all stop what they are doing and dash out of the room. They run across the tarmac to their planes. The pilot is strapped in, he gives the thumbs up sign. Jet airplanes take off. A fire bell ringing, you can see the little hammer hitting the bell. A fire truck pulls up and a fireman jumps off to hook up the hose to a fire hydrant. A summer beach at a lake, looking over the shoulder of a lifeguard. The lifeguard looks out from his chair. He runs a boat out into the water and pulls hard at the oars. An office worker answers the phone. He jumps out of his chair. He runs from the Air Materiel Command office. He runs to his car. POV from the car, as another vehicle pulls out in front.
The commentator talks about the 5 BX Plan ( The 5 Basic Exercises). He starts pointing to a table on a chart, showing increasing difficulty. Each exercise should take no more than eleven minutes.
Three demonstrators doing a stretching exercise, that is now considered bad for your back. They bounce and then bend backwards, then bounce again. A skinny man demonstrates lying sit-ups. The third man lies on his stomach and contracts his back muscles, lifting his legs and torso off the floor at the same time. Exercise four is push-ups. The fifth exercise is running on the spot, and doing various jumps like jumping jacks. The progression in difficulty of the exercises, first the man does push-ups off his knees. Normal push-ups. Push up with a variation. The fourth variation means putting your arms farther apart. Push ups with a hand clap. Pushups with a chest slap.
Variations with running on the spot. And stretching.
Close up view of the plan.
