5BX

Eleven minutes a day. Is that too much to ask?

Original 5BX booklet cover and still from the video “5BX ‘Five Basic Exercises’ Royal Canadian Air Force Training Film (1959)”. Credit: Canada 150 Archive

At the beginning of every year, people start thinking about exercise routines and new regimes. Exercise schedules are drafted, gyms are joined – and our social feeds fill with all manner of miraculous …