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Title: The complete athletic trainer
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Mussabini, S. A Ranson, Charles
Subjects: Athletics Physical education and training
Publisher: London, Methuen & co. ltd
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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ning is a push of thefeet, made right under the body, with all themuscles behind the leg and up the back broughtinto the effort. The correct sprint-runner isquite an artificial product. He uses his armsdifferently ; and the angle at which his headand body should be pitched, to bring him up onhis toes and keep his legs well under him, isnot possible to be maintained but for the fastestrunning. Walking is a draw and a thrust, lacking in thesmoothness of both classes of running, the pulland the push. It stands for the finest naturalexercise and the easiest mode of progression(away from the track), for the simple reason, thatevery step means the application of the pull-and-push effort in greater or lesser degree. The value of track practice, regularly butlightly taken, in the various branches of pedes-trianism, is to be found in the gradual develop-ment of the needful muscles. Those most in usewill draw upon other and less active parts of thebody. Thus, by degrees, the legs, the arms, the
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A FINE SPECIMEN OF THE HUMAN FRAME SHAPED FORSWIFT RUNNINC; NOTE rARTICULARLY THE LITHE, TAlERING LEGS RUNNING AND WALKING 7 back, loins and shoulders are given their pro-portionate share of the required power accordingto how they are employed. This being so, isit not easy to understand that a poor runningor walking style will induce to the cultivation ofthe wrong cords at the expense of others which,really, rank as first in importance ? And once afaulty style gets hold of a runner or walker it isonly subdued (never fully eradicated) by dint ofmuch striving and a redistribution of strength.In every respect Habit is second nature. There is an outcry, at the moment, for novicesscratch races. The idea is commendable. Butthe best of these young runners should at oncebe put into the hands of those capable of im-parting the correct carriage, arm and foot workfor the class of race they have done well in.May the writer be allowed to ask where suchtuition is to be found ? The multiplicity of f

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