Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.
The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.
I did six years of planning to win the championship from Jack Dempsey.
A concave chest means that your diaphragm is sagging.
But I do say that, if you will regularly devote 15 minutes a day, preferably before breakfast, for 60 days to the simple set of exercises that I devised for conditioning men in the navy, I guarantee that you will enjoy increased physical buoyancy and mental vigor.
If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.