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What Sports Help Weiglit* Lifting and How

I AM not so narrow-ntinded as to say that it‘ you take up weight-lifting you shoultl have pratticed it to the excIusion of all else. There is no reason \vhatever wity you should stop prac-ticing your favorite sport or pastime, indeed there are several such which are a distinct aid to the weight-lifter. Take cycling— here we have a pastime which gives strengtli to the Iegs, a most important part in weight-lifting; especially in double-handed lifting is the need for good deyelopment felt. If you take such sports as boxing, tennis, fencing, golf, etc., where quickuess is necessary, even these help the li fter. proyided they are not oyerdone, as the ability to move ąuickly is by no means inyaluable in weight-lifting. All outdoor sports should be beneficial, inasmuch as they get one into the o pen air and help one keep generally fit. It must be taken into consideration that a weight-lifter lifts not only by possession of large ntuscles, for it is possible with comparatively smali ntuscles to raise a heavy weight by pure energy. Outdoor work helps to deyelop this energy, and such sports as wrestling, swintming, walking, etc., etc., keep the ntuscles in order, and give enduring strengtli which stands the lifter in good stead if he has to make a number of attempts at any giyen lift. At the same time. there are few sports which deyelop the rigltt kind of musclc for lifting. Therefore, it does not necessarily follow that a man who has obtained good physical deyelopment from any sport will excel without training in weight-lifting, evcn when a position for test be choscn where slteer strength alone can avail. To prove this 1 may say I have tested many wrestlers of splendid

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