. Discovery. Science. DISCOVERY 6ft in drawing the figure, viz. that all these records were made by different persons, presumably with different A's and different B's, different "credits" and different " ; It is hoped, by consultation with, and experiments on, a number of good athletes, to draw up a standard average curve of the same type for (say) a good mile runner, running all distances over the range considered. A good usually cannot, or will not, run a mile at all! More- over, by a series of experiments on such athletes, it should be possib
. Discovery. Science. DISCOVERY 6ft in drawing the figure, viz. that all these records were made by different persons, presumably with different A's and different B's, different "credits" and different " ; It is hoped, by consultation with, and experiments on, a number of good athletes, to draw up a standard average curve of the same type for (say) a good mile runner, running all distances over the range considered. A good usually cannot, or will not, run a mile at all! More- over, by a series of experiments on such athletes, it should be possible to make a reasonably accurate state- ment of the real relation, at all speeds, between the ratr of oxygen-consumption and the speed. The former is certainly not exactly proportional to the square of the latter. For the present, however, it would seem that the general principles are correct, and that the speed and power of human muscular effort are mainly limited by considerations of oxygen " income " and " ; The further exact investigation of these facts will add greatly to the scientific interest of athletics, and so will bring another valuable source of experiment and observation within the reach of those who are studying human function and activity. It is not contended that these considerations of oxygen and energy are the only ones ; there can be no question of the importance of technical skill and training in the use and correlation of one's muscles and limbs, of tactical judgment in the actual race or effort, and of the mental and moral aspects of what athletes call " guts," that most intangible and yet most certain aid to athletic success or bodily prowess. Neither can any one of the physiological functions of the body be left out of account. Given aU this, violent muscular effort still consists mainly in the degradation of energy, and this aspect of it gives us the clearest and most definite picture of its essential nature. Gariba
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