Practical Training for Running, Walking, Rowing, Wrestling, Boxing, Jumping, and All Kinds of Athletic Feats by Ed. James

Author:Ed. James [James, Ed.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783734012983
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Publisher: Outlook Verlag
Published: 2018-09-22T00:00:00+00:00

TRAINING IN REGARD TO PUGILISM AND WRESTLING.

The work necessary to reduce or otherwise bring the pugilist into something like condition will be, of course, nearly if not precisely similar to the training required for a pedestrian or other match. The physicing will require great attention; all drastic and griping medicines are to be avoided, if possible, and cases will occur from time to time where no medicine ought to be given whatever. The man in one of these instances will be in a low state, and require feeding and training up. In another, the body will be in so open and relaxed a state that the prescribing and giving the usual dose would be followed to a certainty by the patient training right off, and failing into a low and prostrate condition. In the general state of health, however, which characterizes the pugilist when matched to fight (with a full habit of body, flushed countenance, and a pulse full and slow), the usual dose, salts, etc., may be introduced with advantage, but the quantities and frequent use left to the usual habit of the man, or to the judgment of the trainer. The physicing and preparation for the hard work should occupy the first week; and the number of sweats taken during the second week should be regulated by the state of inside and the loose flesh on the body. A sharp run will soon show the state of the inside by the state of “the bellows,” whether the wind is short or not, and the manner in which the looser flesh shakes when sparring is a pretty fair criterion of there being a good quantity of outside superfluity to get away. He ought to be rubbed down after his runs and fast walks, and dry clothes put on in a warm, dry room. The loss of weight should be gradual. If, on the contrary, the loss be too rapid, and continue daily, the reducing system must cease, and feeding up take the place of sweating for a few days until the system is restored. The meals, of course, must be taken regularly, and consist of the same kind of animal food as recommended previously, and the beverage most suited to the constitution of the man taken in small quantities—the kind and quantity, of course, being left to the judgment of the trainer. Wine is principally given when the man has to be trained up, and then good old port wine will be found to be of the most service. The pugilists of the present day strengthen the arms, loins, and shoulders by hitting out at a striking-bag suspended from a beam, and a large bladder hung in like manner; by exercise with pulleys, the ropes passing over wheels and having weights attached; plenty of practice with the gloves, diversified with the use of a skipping-rope, and finally, but by no means of minor importance, by continual sharp practice with dumb-bells of about seven pounds weight or under. Good condition

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