This happens very often among athletes.

The ordinary man should fight shy of such plans.
Superfluous strength is only for those who have need of it.

What we really want is strength enough to carry us through our daily rounds with comfort and _a feeling of efficiency_.
In a sense we all live by our wits and these decline when not properly fed by our general physical organization.

Prize fighters are not the longest lived people, nor are the professional athletes.

Their calling requires extra building up which would be a positive handicap to the average man whose manner of life doesn't require this super-development.
In other words, there are intemperate methods of exercising just as there are of eating and drinking.