Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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White
McDivitt
White
I had the feeling that my capacity and my desire
to do strenuous physical exercise decreased
during the flight. Actually,it kind of decreased
to a point and stayed at that point for the
whole flight. Shortly after I got up there, I
really didn't have any big desire to do a great
deal of physical exercise. I did do the exercises
as indicated, and I did about eight extra series
of exercises with the exerciser, but I noticed
a definite lack of interest in doing heavy
physical exercise.
I concur with what Ed said, although I'm not
really sure this came about because of the small
amount of sleep that we bad or just .:w -a.n effect
of the zero-g thing.
I did use the M-3 exerciser
to do other exercises.
I used it to exercise
my arms , not oql.y in the manner that was de.mon@trated
but by holding on to one end and pul ling the
other end with the other band.
I used it to
exercise my legs also.
I did a few other exercises, just with the
exerciser.
I yanked around a little bit on it,
as Jim indicated. But, I also did some exercises
in which I pressed pretty bard up against the
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