The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-01-18
TELLS
HOW WREsTlERsTRl
Russian Lion" Discourses Enter
tainingly-Tells How Mus
cles Are Developed.

CHICAGO, Jan. 17.-The method.
OF training pursued by George Hack.
enschmidt should not only prove in.
teresting to wrestling fans in general
but many wrestlers who have, per-
haps, been following the wrong meth
DDS of training ~~s4
Hack bases his exercise on ra-
tiohaf foundation which means On
the muscular makeup of a human be-
ing. 1t is well to keep in mind that
the big fellow is about the only sue
cessful wrestler in the world who has
also INDUCED extensively In heavy
weight lifting. Any man lacking the
marvellous physical makeup of the
Russian lion could not mix the rais-
ing of weights with graphing.
Hack explains the meaning Of the
term muscle-bound more clearly than
anybody else In the business. AS he
shows no man Is ever muscle bound
In the literal sense Of the word. This
is condition where certain muscles
are developed and certain other mus
cles are not developed.
During his training in Chicago with
Adolph Ernst, Hack explained to
Adolph where certain methods were
wrong and where others were right.
Ernst had taken hold Of the handles
OF one of the weight machines in the
gymnasium, with his back toward the
machine and his arms extended. He
started working the weights very rap
idly, but Hackenschmidt stopped him
and said Every time you jerk the
weights your arm and shoulder mus
cles become tense. These are the
heavyweight muscles and are. of
course, developed through this rapid
exercise. Your object, undoubtedly,
was to develop speed, but you will find
that the results are exactly opposite to
what you intended they should be.
Keep your arms as loose as possible
work the weights slowly and easily,
swinging your arms forward and back
ward in full, long sweep. The mus
cles you develop are the long ones, orI
the muscles you need in wrestling,
and the development is even through
out" This same principle applies to |
the use Of dumbells, Indian clubs or |
any other apparatus for physical de-
velopment.
Varies His Stunts.
In his training Hackenschmidt
varies his stunts, spending, perhaps,
only five minutes at each one, and in
Guiding considerable repertoire. He
will put in about five minutes wrest-
ing AWl lsSasazs
with ms partner and will fhGafteS n
ote the same length of time to hand t
all exercise. Perhaps his next move t
) to spend few minutes on the hori-
ontal bars. Then he will work with I
he weights and then with the light
umbells. One of Hackenschmidt'sl
avoiite forms of development is to
AXE two ordinary chairs, placing ,
hem back to back about foot apart.
standing at a point about is feet from
he chairs he walks up to them lels-
rely and jumps over them with his
eet held together. He will do this
so times, and If athletes think
t is easy let them try It out. One OF;
lis favorite forms of outdoor exer-
Use is walking. He never attempts
o make any records, but takes gait
between three and four miles an hour
Ind stays with it for two or three
hours at a stretch. He always takes
/ shower bath and a good rundown
after any of his exercising practlces.
Building Muscles.
The value of using all Of the long
and alternating the method
IF training lies in the beneficient eff
rects of nature in responding to the
repeated proper use of the muscles.
The good comes about in two ways,
which, of course, harmonic. When e
A. HI
ally throws off its waste tissue into
the veins and gathers new material
from the arteries. UP to a certain
limit every muscle can grow both in
tensile strength and in size. When
the maximum has been reached
which nature prescribes in every body,
then the one method of improvement
is in the continued application Of that
strength.
The second phase Of development
inheres in the control through the
nerve system. Using every kind Of
muscles as required with speed and
precision calls for the proper reflex
action somewhere in the brain, as well
as in the nerve centers themselves.
The only kind of education that
teaches this control over the muscular
organism is lOuliu III Si0 AA6AAe @AAN -
peated principle.
1t may be added that Hacken-
schmidt never trains until he is ex-
hausted, but is more regular in his
training than most people are with
their meals. 1t may be peculiar fact
but it is nevertheless true that the
training that counts is based not only
on the right methods, but on regular
|ity. The reason a Mohammedan is so
devout in his faith is because he puts
over the same stuff day in and day
out. 1t becomes a dominating factor
in his life. Training to greet Allah
at the dawn of day is not so far re-
moved from training for the mat as
many people would imagine. There is
the same underlying principle OF regu-
larity or syncopation.
Must Keep 1t Up.
| The grappler who trains like 90
horsepower engine for week and
then quits for two or three weeks may
not be able to understand why he is
not UP at the top, but if he stops to
figure that regularity is essential he
NAV understand. The point is simply
this; Years of faithful training may
be required to reach the maximum in
muscular development and menta
control of the development A very
nominal amount of exercise and train
ling each day thereafter VIII keep th'
grappler in condition for years. Ii
fact for a period of more than
lquarter of a century Farmer Burns