The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-27
POINTERS ON
GETTING Fit
An Eminent Sporting Authority
Outlines Some Practical
Training Rules.

The following article on physical
training, by Tom O'Rourke, than whom
no man understands the subject bet
ter, is timely, now that the local sea-
While it was written for professional
athletes, it contains much advice
which amateur devotees of every
branch of sport will find exceedingly
valuable:
Be sure to get nine or ten hours
sleep every night. Go to bed at 9 and
rise az z a. m. When you rise take the
juice of one-half a lemon Gas your ap-
petite Graves and judgment dictates)
in as mach water as makes it pleasant
to drink without sugar. Under no con-
dition use sugar.
In the night, on retiring, take the
juice of one lemon in goblet of wa
ter. This will clear the system Of hui
NOR and bile, without any of the eff
feets of calome1. One should not irri-
tate the stomach by taking the lemons
clear. The powerful acid of the Juice
when taken alone invariably produces
Inflammation il continued. One would
think the lemon juice would make you
thirsty. Not SO. Instead it will quench
the thirst, and you are not continually
sneaking drink of water on your
trainer, for the least sip of the juice
in water will satisfy you during the
day.
Caution.-Do not use sugar with the
lemons. 1t neutraIizes the desired eff
feet. 1t will with sugar cause instead
of remove acidity.
What shall we eat?' I say, and /
believe, and always gave my boys in
training, whatever they liked best, as
long as Ii was sound and wholesome,
except salt meats and sweets. Ice
cream ] always allowed after dinner,
as it pleased and cooled them off; but
1t would be made special for them, so
as not TIC have much of anything but
milk and eggs. Eat fruit-apples,
pears and ripe plums-once a day.
Eat sraringly of vegetables-no po-
tatoes. When a man has to make
weight dc not use starchy food of any
kind
There are five essentials in training,
II a man intends to perfect himself. He
must sleep at least eight hours every
night. observe abstinence from hurt
ia. .h1ngs, cultivate regular and good
habits Calmness of temper, and have
a laudable ambition.
The first thing to do when about to
start training is to take a black
draught. Any druggist will put it up.
The first two or three days do light
work. Rise about Z a. m. After the
usual custom of washing the face and
hands and brushing the teeth the body
should be wiped over with a sponge
lamp with sea water-not too cold
then be rubbed perfectly dry with soft
sponge towels. After dressing take
your glass OF lemon juice in water as
desired, then moderate walk of fif-
-een minutes, just stroll along so as
lot to get the perspiration started.
Returning, breakfast about a. m.
Breakfast should consist of beefsteak
II mutton chop, cooked to suit the
aste, the rarer the more beneficial;
good, wholesome stale bread, one day
,ld-if a little coarse so much the bet
occasionally two fresh rare
iropped eggs Drink a cup of weak
ca About an hour after breakfast
prepare for morning exercise, which
hould be a go-as-you-please for not
more than eight miles, the first five
niles to be walked at a fast gait, the
emaining three miles to be run at
asst clip, arriving at the quarters in
bout one hour. Here there should be
Competent men ready to take you In
and, in a comfortable room with no
raughts, and rub you thoroughly dry
With towels and then wipe the body
Yer with sea water, as before. II
athtub is not available. When you
re through bathing you are rubbed
ry as before and thoroughly massaged
nd rubbed with witch hazel and a
mall quantity of alcohol mixed with
: (Take a quarter of an ounce OF
apsicum to a gallon of witch hazel
nd alcohol mixed. Then be rubbed
ry and dressed comfortably warm.