The regimen was severe, since the training included strict abstinence and dieting. Horace, a poet of the first century B.C.E., said that contestants “abstained from women and wine ” to“ reach the longed - for goal. ”
बहुत कुछ तो खुद खिलाड़ी पर निर्भर होता था और यह भी कि उसे दिए जा रहे सख्त प्रशिक्षण के लिए उसमें कितनी लगन है ।