Training

Training, in the wider sense equal to practical education in any profession, art, or handicraft, is frequently used in the specific sense of the method adopted by athletes for developing their physical strength, endurance, or dexterity, or to qualify them for victory in competitive trials of skill, races, matches, &c. Training in this sense consists mainly in bodily exercise, both general and specially adapted to the particular sport in view (as for running, rowing, boxing, &c.), and in sufficient and carefully regulated dieting. General exercising has been already considered at ATHLETICS and GYMNASTICS. The special training for boat-races, and the dieting suitable to all athletes are sufficiently dealt with at ROWING, Vol. IX. p. 10. Training may be overdone, to the serious and even permanent detriment of health. See Maclaren's Training in Theory and Practice (2d ed. 1874).