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In regard to the terms and routine of the training here presented, the writer has merely set forth that which would best serve a seasoned professional athlete who could devote all his time and energies to a fairly strict daily routine. This is, of course, impossible to all but the select few.

The average athlete only able to spare an hour or so in the early mornings or evenings will, naturally, take a longer period (and train even more gradually) to prepare himself to arrive at his best state. He is of a class to whom natural physical exercise in the Open air means every thing - and he should miss no real Opportunity of practising either the training exercises (shown in another chapter) or his particular form of athletics.

Boys and youths under twenty years of age (at the least) must be content with much less ex acting work until they are grown up to manhood. They only need to practise, without exerting themselves severely, to find style and get a grasp of things. The rest will come later on.

I cheerfully acknowledge the hints and suggestions that I have received from my old friends, Charles Ransom and Harry Perry, in the preparation of this work.

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Excerpt from The Complete Athletic Trainer

In the multitude of physical culture counsels derived from all parts of the world, the author believes that none surpass or even equal the old-fashioned English training methods which once stood for our unassailable supremacy in the field of athletics. The American coaches, supposedly gifted with supernatural powers, freely admit that the foundation-stone of their reflected successes in recent years was laid by the teachings of the old school of England's professional athletes. These imply an adherence to simple and therefore natural health rules combined with a nice technical understanding. Nowadays, elementary details are mostly neglected or overlooked, for the reason that most of the qualified track trainers have gone out of business. They and their kind have had to seek other occupations. Some have gone to America, and many are to be found tending to the professional football teams up and down the country.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.