Athletic training for school boys (1910) (14804695743)

Identifier: athletictraining00orto (find matches)
Title: Athletic training for school boys
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Orton, George W., b. 1873, ed
Subjects: Athletics
Publisher: New York, American Sports Pub. Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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n should also be paid to ex-ercises that will develop the heart and lungs. Club swinging,dumb-bell work and deep breathing exercises will develop thechest. Body movements (either with or without dumb-bells),from the erect position until the fingers touch the floor, move-ments from side to side, and similar exercises, will strengthen theback and abdominal muscles. A very good exercise for this pur-pose will be found by lying down, placing the hands back of thehead and then drawing up the legs outstretched to a perpendicularposition several times. This exercise can be varied by keepingthe legs still and rising to a sitting posture several times. It ismost important that the body should, be very strong and wiry,and I lay especial emphasis on this because so many scholastictrack athletes neglect their bodies and then wonder why they donot improve. Those trying for-the field events will see at oncethe force of the above, for in all the field events the body is justas important as the legs.
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si <J :z; iz; ;? ?5 o o o O^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Spaldings Athletic Library, ll DO NOT SPECIALIZE TOO SOON.In line with the previous paragraph, I would advise the boy notto specialize too soon. Take part in many kinds of sport. In thisway the eye and the mind will be trained to work in harmonyand at once, and the right sort of courage will be developed. ButI suggest this especially because this all round work will have thevery effect desired above, namely, in developing the whole bod3^ SPEED IS THE BASIS OF SUCCESS ON THE TRACK. Speed is the basis of success on the track. This reads as a self-evident fact, and yet how many quarter-milers do we find tryingto run fast quarters without doing any sprinting; or how manyhalf-milers are there who keep at this distance and never do anyquarter-mile running or even 220 yards running for speed; andhow few distance runners do we find paying any attention tospeed at all. Of course, it is foolish to ask a sprinter to keepspeeding, for that is what his event