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Salient. The Newspaper of Victoria University College. Vol. 20, No. 8. September 14, 1956

Weight training club formed

Weight training club formed

This is a new club whose aim it is to make a scientific approach to fitness. Membership is free and it is a club for all clubs. Weight-training gives excellent ancillary training for other sports and may be undertaken all the year round. It can give that extra fitness to athletes, footballers, swimmers, and others, which marks the champion. Remedial exercises based on clinical methods will speed up the recovery of strained muscles and twisted joints.

For the athlete who wants supple speed without bulk the club has individual courses; for the footballer who wants extra weight also with his speed there are other routines. But of equal importance are the opportunities afforded the ordinary young man or woman to improve his or her physique and to gain that fitness so vital to stand examination conditions.

Organized sport often means great inroads on personal time, and also has a tendency to catch one up in its social side. The two or three short workouts called for in weight train-stand up to the strain of long hours and also build up a resistance to colds and other ailments.

The VUC Weight-Training Club provides the amenities and the expert instruction necessary to achieve these objectives. You can train at any time and the facilities are close at hand. In addition the Club will be organizing a scries of coaching lectures and demonstrations by various experts. All students of both sexes are invited to attend, so watch the notice boards.