Protecting yourself while working out
Here are pointers to keep you out of trouble and allow you the most fun—pointers to help you avoid nuisances and injury. These are tips you otherwise will learn the hard way. Hardened sportsmen and competing athletes know that the best workout can be wrecked by inattention to several small, yet important, details. It will not take you long to discover your own sensitive and tender areas. Experience will soon be your guide. Do be most attentive in the beginning.

Protection For Exposed Areas
In your "exercise infancy" pressure surfaces and exposed areas are subjected to unaccustomed abuse. Lips are very susceptible to chapping and cracking, not only in windy or cold weather, but during almost any activity rigorous enough to cause mouth breathing. Worse yet, there is an unexplained tendency during strenuous exercise to lick the lips, which further aggravates chapping. A thin coat of vaseline or lipsil should be applied over the lips and around the mouth to provide reliable protection.

Under all climatic, seasonal, and diurnal vicissitudes, exercise increases secretions of the respiratory tract. Such mucus tends to accumulate in the trachea and nose, becoming watery and copious. In the mouth secretions are ropy and thick. Whether a workout is confined to the four walls of a YMCA or is enjoyed under cloudy, dismal skies, runny noses and juicy coughs can be predicted. Carry an adequate supply of facial tissues—two or three should be sufficient. These can be tucked under the waist since most sports clothes do not have pockets.