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Japanese Physical Training

amount of time he should devote daily to each feat and to the aggregation of feats to be attempted in a single day's work.

As the muscles, lungs, and heart become gradually toughened, the beginner, if he uses the discretion that has been indicated, will lengthen the period of his practice bouts. The Japanese takes all of his instruction in one daily lesson at the school. In the rush of American life the Occidental may find it to his advantage to divide practice into halves, one for the morning and one for the late afternoon or early evening.