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Now It's PicasFor ExerciseUSdunrcrkrsterSUindetfcofbvrvnsvv“The Picas” is something new on America's exercise scene and will soon be a new addition to America’s vocabulary. The Picas Exerciser promises to sweep the nation and help make us all feel I ™ better, look better and have slim-mer waistlines and stronger ? backs. 1The Picas Exerciser is a pair of five fopt sticks or picks joined . with a swivel • socket to a small | _ base at one end, and with mbber handle-bar grips on the other end. They are now on display at the iHarman Sport Shop in downtown Geneva.'With the base firmly placed against some sort of support (desk, wall, step or piece of furniture ), enthusiasts use the sticks as uprights in a jungle gym, or as pivotal ballet bars — pulling, stretching balancing and generally evercising against them.Gabriel Alcover Bonet, a Spanish Physical Education Instructor, invented the Picas. The Picas, as well as being fun, is a simple easy answer to the basic exercise problem. It’s always ready for use. can be handled indoors or out, at home or at the office.With the Picas, all the muscles of the body are exercised at theei]4.a;k-K.n:same time.* And the Picas routineifis especially effective in red*icing the wasi-tline and strengthening the small of the back. Most ex-38 I ercises are* a bore at'best, but1a.ID»oepeople of all ages get a kick out. of mastering this pair of “tricky picks.”
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Penn Yan Chronicle Express
Penn Yan, New York, US
Thu, Mar 17, 1960
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