Training, in Theory and Practice

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: resources in the evening race1. This post-breakfast exercise should be the antithesis to that preceding it?exercise to the upper limbs, which, as we have seen, have little or no employment in Rowing or Running; exercise in which every voluntary muscle engaged in boat-propulsion will be systematically employed, so that no available particle of rowing- power may be lost, and in which every voluntary muscle not engaged in boat-propulsion will also be employed, so that the equilibrium of growth and development may be preserved?so that the man, in fact, as well as the rower, may be cultivated; andabove all, exercise in which the fair and full development of the chest may be ensured, and every muscle, voluntary and involuntary, primary and auxiliary, engaged in respiration may be strengthened to its fullest capacity. 1 The exercise in training practice on the Oxford system, allowing for the difference of some Colleges where a short run is preferred to the morning walk, amounts to this:? Walking?Say one mile, averaging four miles per hour .... 15 minutes. Rowing?Say twice over the course and back; part of the distance at racing pace, part at two- thirds speed, and part at half speed, averaging the whole distance, and allow- ing for backing and turn- ing (five miles), at say nine minutes per mile . 45 60 minutes. The training practice begins with the Term and lasts about three weeks, when racing commences. Once or twice during this time a crew will probably be taken to Nuneham (about 5 miles), but they do not always row back on the same day, and during the time of the races rowing over the course a second time is exceptional, although often done. See Appendix E, No. 1. Let no man be afraid to exert himself lest ' it take it out of him.' There is nothing in him that wil...