Training in theory and practice / by Archibald Maclaren.

Date:
1866
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Credit: Training in theory and practice / by Archibald Maclaren. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    No. 7. THE AUTHOR OF ROWING AND STEERING 'S SYSTEM^. GREW ON MONTH'S TRAINING. [This System is for the Thames, on the course from Putney to Mortlake, reckoned at 4 miles, 3 furlongs.] Rise at about 7.0 a.m. Exercise Breakfast, 9.0 Luncheon at 1.0 Exercise A Day's Training. The crew meet at 7.0, walk and run for four or five miles ; or, in later practice, quick run of two miles. Wash and dress. Meat (broiled). Bread (brown) and Butter. Tea, two cups. Smoking allowed (conditionally). Beef Sandwich with half a pint of Beer, or Biscuit and glass of Sherry, or Egg in Sherry. At 2.30 go out to row, and row over the whole course. (Glass of cold Water re- commended.) ' Cocoa made of the nibs boiled for four hours is better than Tea for breakfast. Smoking is barred. For though here also a man's habits are to be taken into account, the subjects of training in match boats are usually too young to have contracted a custom of smoking so inveterate as to have made tobacco indispen- sable to the body's internal functions, though it is not unfrequently so in older men. After breakfast is the only time allotted to the pipe. This altogether depends on the state of the crew. h The Principles of Rowing and Steering. Oxford. Shatter and Rose, High Street,