Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1895 — DONT OVER-EXERCISE. [ARTICLE]

DONT OVER-EXERCISE.

The Dinger Which Confront* the Novice of the Wheel. When Corbett always rugged far beyond his fellows, goes into training, no exacting exercise is undertaken at the outset so greatly do his mentors fear the evil consequences of over-ex-ertion. The young men of the Yale and Harvard crew, exercise gently aH winter in the gymnasium before undertaking any severe work upon the water, and even then the solicitous “coach” permits no man to reach the limit of his endurance. Zimmerman, king of the bicycle, as Hanlon Was emperor of oarsmen for so many years, trains in precisely the same manner. When out of form in consequence of a long period of inactivity, he resumes work with the utmost care, avoiding all fatigue and over-exertion. Every few days his task is slightly increased and in the course of time he is ready for the starter with every muscle trained to its utmost capacity, and a reserve of strength up his sleeve, to use the expressive words coined by the great cycler himself. What a contrast there is between all this and the reckless expenditure of energy by the young woman and the young man who have just become enamored of the bicycle. With no previous training of any kind, and no attention to diet beyond that involved In consuming as much ice water, cake and ice cream as possible, reeling off miles by tens and twenties, and then go home overstrained and almost in a state of collapse to recuperate slowly and repeat the folly when they have sufficiently recovered to drive nature to another dangerous test