This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... Why Athletes in Training Do Not Smoke Athletes, when in training, are never allowed to smoke. Every trainer is familiar with its deadly effects. Some years ago Dr. W. P. Lombard, professor of Physiology of the University of Michigan, himself a smoker, conducted a lengthy series of observations for the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... Why Athletes in Training Do Not Smoke Athletes, when in training, are never allowed to smoke. Every trainer is familiar with its deadly effects. Some years ago Dr. W. P. Lombard, professor of Physiology of the University of Michigan, himself a smoker, conducted a lengthy series of observations for the purpose of determining the influence of smoking upon muscular work. The amount of the work done was carefully measured and recorded by means of delicate instruments of precision. The results are thus summarized by the Professor (Jour. Phys. Vol. XIII, p. 44): "The record of these successive observations shows that the effect of one cigar of moderate strength was to lessen the work of which the subject was capable, from 10.4 kilogrammeters (75-foot pounds) to 2.1 kilogrammeters (15-foot pounds), the number of times that the weight could be lifted being reduced from 86 to 12. This occurred, too, at the time of day when the strength is usually increasing. The influence of the tobacco was not felt until more than five minutes after the subject began to smoke, and it increased throughout the hour that the smoking was continued. "The depressing effect began to pass off very soon after the cigar was finished. A considerable recovery occurred within eleven minutes; but it was not until 72 minutes after the cigar had been laid aside that the strength was completely restored." Dr. Abbe, a famous New York surgeon, states that at West Point, "smoking was prohibited in 1891, and fifteen years later the summary of medical records shows the great advantage in work and discipline. In college, a group of men subjected to ergograph tests during abstinence and again after four days' smoking, is said to have shown a forty per cent, loss of muscle power. In...
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