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GUARD AGAINST CHILLS.

This, by the way, is an unnecessary risk, which many athletes foolishly incur, particularly during the intervals between training rune, between heats at a meeting, or while watching other events. A man seems to think that as long an he done a sweater or a thick flannel jacket, and so protects the upper part of his body, that he will be impervious to cold, quite oblivious of the fact that his success will be mainly achieved by his leg muscles, and that these are (on this account if for no more) every whit an important as his heart action.
The warmer muscles are the more easily they move. The blood flown to them and courses round them more freely, conveying the needed nutriment far more readily and freely when its action is not rendered sluggish and thereby impeded by cold. You must all be aware that supposing you have fallen and hurt yourself, or have been kicked at football or otherwise contused, that you can stave oft the consequent bruise and stiffness by keeping in motion. Bruises and stiffness are the result of congealed blood, and if the flow can be kept constant and rapid they cannot manifest themselves.

So whether you have just run, jumped, thrown a hammer, or put a weight, or are about to perform any of these feats, you should avoid standing still, and should pay equal attention to the item of immediately covering up the whole of your body.

Let your trainer be in close attendance with a long bath robe or dressing-grown which will envelope you from your head to your feet, and don this immediately, both before emerging from your dressing-room and as soon its you have “pulled up” from a spin, whether practice or in A race. Doff it only before you are going into your bath prior to dressing.

Don’t pay any attention to any desire you may enter-tain to let the wind play about your body. You can indulge in all the “air baths” you wish for at other times. They are out of place either just before or just after exercise. You are, or should be, perspiring freely then, and the discharge of waste tissue through the pores of your skin is at all times a healthy discharge, which should only be terminated or checked in any way in a warm (but not too warm) bath.

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