Success in Athletics and how to obtain it

146 SUCCESS IN ATHLETICS particularly those of the abdomen, on which the strain IS very severe. Sprinting and half-mile running should also be in– cluded in the hammer-thrower's syllabus of training ; the former will teach him quickness and agility, while the latter will build up his stamina, a quality to be by no means despised. The hammer-thrower's diet is a little difficult. He needs to put on weight without fat, and he should therefore take foods and liquids which tend to make flesh and bone, but only in such quantities as will permit him, by means of strenuous exercise, to turn the superfluous flesh which he gains into good hard muscle.