Success in Athletics and how to obtain it

SUCCESS IN ATHLETICS of stride as compared with the casual easy walking of everyday life. To obtain this movement the spine must be supple, especially in the lower part, or "small of the back." It is this portion of the spine that, by constant practice from youth upwards, allows the acrobat to accomplish the marvellous contortions of his profession. It would be well for youths who have a taste for walking to cultivate this swaying movement of the lower girdle. The wonderful " boy walker," Master Vowles, of Sutton, by his early Diagram 8. trammg and experience, may develop into a classy walker when he attains manhood. The sway or swing of the haunch-bones forming the basin at the lower end of the trunk to which the lower limbs are attached, carries each limb alter– nately farther forwards, and may be represented as in diagram 8. ROAD WALKING The road walker will want to build up his body even more determinedly than does the track man, for the sport is more exacting on the road, from which there is not to be got the same resilience as from the cinder-path. All, or nearly all, the road-walker's work is done on