Rowing by Giannini E

Author:Giannini, E[ugene] J. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Rowing. [from old catalog]
Publisher: New York, American sports publishing company
Published: 1894-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

as such a case of procedure Avonid most probably culminate in a capsize—and lay out himself accordingly. More practice is required in this branch of the sport than in any other—that is to say to perform well—but plenty of rowing together, coupled with watchfulness and attention on the part of the bowman, is all that is really wanted. Coaching, as with eights and fours, is seldom or never thought of. though occasionally needed. When training for a race, the daily spin should equal, or rather slightly exceed, the course to be gone over, but it will be productive of much benefit to take long, steady rows, and to wind up the practice with the spin in question. A pair should ease up one day before their race. The heaviest man should be placed aft, unless the boat is specially l)uilt for a heavy bowman.

TRAINING.

The moral and physical man is connected closely and intimately, and if health, strength and longevity is to be secured, it is of absolute importance that while the mind is cultured and refined, an equal attention should be paid to the training and education of the creature. With the I)ody in health, the muscles in full and vigorous action, the mind is far better able to grapple with and overcome the more diJiicult ijroblems of intellectual philosophy. To those who never reflect, "to eat, drink and sleep," seem all that is necessary to prolong and sustain existence ; but man both thinks and acts. The brain, whence flow thought, reflection, mind, requires culture, and the human frame, the most perfect of all machines, with its muscles, bones and sinews, must be educated. The brain overtasked reacts upon the body, producing mal-assimulation, with its train of evils, indigestion, hypochondriasis, low spirits and impaired vital energy. The overtasked body, equally, though perhaps not so rapidly, pioduces the tame results. This being admittedly true in regard to the ordinary conditions of existence, is doubly so, affecting boat racing—a class of contest which taxes

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