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is to cndeavor to inake your training as much a pleasure as pos-sible. I f necessary, enter into little competitions with your friends. 1 liad almost said a smali l>et would be an incentire to work, but I suppose I must include bctting among the list of viccs we luiman beings arc apt to give way to, but tllis will not preclude one front a friendly compctition occasionally in which points nuty be conceded, and lifts performed on handicap and compctition lines.

Carefully adjust your work to your condition at the moment. Ask yourself eaeli time you lift. "Am I in good form totlay?” If you fccl yourself in good form—specially "lit"—then that is the time to try a “limit" lift. Notę what you have raised that day— the wcight and the datę—and at another suitable time see if you can surpass your last record lift by a few' [joints.

Such pica sam, invigorating and helpful aids to training as massage, towel friction and sponge-down, are all dircct helps in aiding one to continue constantYy and persistently with the prac-ticc. Without regularity good results cannot be expected, yct immcdiately your mind. always t|ucstioning your condition. and ever ready to appreciate a weakness, tells you that you are stale, an immediatc and entire rest is imperativc. To go on when stale is to imitc an entire hrcakdown. 1 havc known evett nenous exhaustion to attend the misdireeted efTorts of the athlete who |iersists in hard training when he leels himscll going to picccs through oyerwork. To try to work like a machinę, knowing that ever at ones sidc stands the bugbcar of training. ready to weaken ones resources through overwork, and bring about a hrcakdown, is the lieight of folly. Naturę has givcn one an instinet which will make hcard. with warning notes, the danger signal when overfatigue threatens, and this signal should never be allowed to pass unnoticed.

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