Track Athletics in Detail (extract)

THE RUNNING BROAD JUMP • 71 jumps twor three times a week will be Enough to keep him n practice, and I should advise him by allmeans to rest for three or four days before going into a contest. When the time for jumping at a field-meeting arrives, never try to do the best work on thefirst jump. Be satisfiedto makeyour marks well and to catch the take-off squarely. Do your very best on the second jump and thereafter. Before mak­ ing the first jump, however, try a spin around the track, and take one or two short jumps on the grass, so as to be thoroughly limbered up; other­ wise, ifyou havenot softened your muscles, you may injure yourself on your firstattempt, and be laid up, as a result, for weeks.