European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                By Allen Cowan and Judy Sarasohn staff writers Michael Benenson stays fit by playing bicycling and walking upstairs at work and Calvin Neptune Robert Gilmore plays bicycles and Roger Landry does and then theres William who Doest an orthopaedic surgeon at the army Hospital in Smith has seen too Many injuries and just Doest have the time to 1 we just dont know what we1 re doing to our Smith its very you get five doctors together and in certain cases you end up with six that the dilemma in picking an activity for physical what might be Good for one is bad for a lot depends on variables such As body warming up and i do not like said a preventive Medicine consultant for the 7th medical i keep waiting for this magic moment when everybody says you feel its never a social work officer with 7th medical is a he finds Jane fondas workout routines Golf is an enjoyable Way of getting some exercise by director of Hospital services at the Wiesbaden air Force its not the but the for those who rent Golf is Little More than a social like the rest of these experts have personal preferences based on their needs and with that in a preventive Medicine risked rating Corrion sports on their practical value toward getting or staying team sports Are Landry theres not enough exercise activity is usually people rarely warm up and the Competition forces people to Landry says Safe statistics support his last year Safe reported 321 working Days lost to injuries stemming from of 69 percent came from team there were 85 in softball and or 26 percent 76 from basketball and or 24 percent and 61 from Rugby and or 19 these Guys Are not Landry there not these Guys still have the mindset of when they were the first no team sport on the shows 16 or 4 what does Landry suggest most beneficial Are Cross country skipping least productive Are martial golfing if carts Are baseball and aerobic or those that Burn fuel with Are the taxes the heart and lungs so that the body can make better use of the oxygen it heres what happens the exerciser breathes in which the lungs Transfer to the the heart then pumps this oxygen enriched blood throughout the especially to the Muscles where it combines with other fuel sources to produce the More Energy the better the body gets at using the its this More efficient use of oxygen created by aerobics that makes us More physically these Are much More valuable for cardiovascular Landry if youre aerobically you can do much anaerobic exercises Are not As they require Short bursts of Energy that dont strengthen the the Best exercises Are those that use All the muscle groups and have cardiovascular Landry they should be not to get the most an activity should be done for about 30 three or four times a heres Landry assessment of sports and exercises As contributions to physical fitness aerobic dancing but needs to be done with too Many people dont exert themselves and think there exercising when there just going through the Little Chance of Burns lots of challenges All muscle Good forms of both aerobic and anaerobic the danger comes from the Quick can rupture tendons and especially the Achilles singles Tennis is a Little More demanding because theres More area to baseball pretty Aero Binally its a step above doing lots of Back and Arm its it gives people the idea there healthy when there basketball a High level of aerobic uses a lot of muscle the problem comes from being ill too Many injuries from jumping and As a pure its Bike Riding just for the lower risk Good for weight need to Combine with other exercises for better upper body bodybuilding not challenging for the can participants overextend themselves and breakdown too Many people do it to build not can be a liability in old can turn to fat if not Bowling extremely limited for calorie potential for muscle Back calisthenic Low risk of Good aerobic and anaerobic value depending on the intensity and readily Burns lots of tests most muscle highly football not a desired activity to enhance aerobic its intermittent and leaves a lot to be without proper its not Golf people who dont walk lose 75 percent of the a isometric incredibly few people can do it regularly and keep at Fine if All Muscles Are exercised for a Long can rupture tendons without proper jogging excellent aerobic requires no a minimum of readily great risk from cars and for knee and Shin greatest danger people who think that if a Little jogging is a lot of jogging is they overdo should be limited to 20 to 30 three or four times a rowing essentially injury challenges most muscle at the top end of burning Sauna not an its a cleansing like taking a opens the Burns a few More calories than sitting in a major risk is dehydration or getting locked in the skipping rope generally risk not too much Benefit for the upper readily not country probably the Premier exercise for the amount of calories burned and Muscles can be done the big problem is its not always better than aerobically limited value because it Only exercises lower has some value As an but has to be rated swimming All muscle groups aerobic and anaerobic very Low risk of need to warm has a lot of value for weight Tennis aerobic not particularly not highly volleyball not As much injury As other team risk is to wrists and caloric exercise value somewhat mid to Low value for average walking weve been doing it for highly aerobic when done Burns the same amount of calories As risk yoga Low calorie does Little for aerobic Fine As part of a regular helps people look maintains does a lot for prevention of Aff affair of the heart is that daily stroll working out your heart did you do enough aerobic dancing for it to be a Benefit one Way of knowing How hard you should be exercising is by keeping track of your heart that muscle pumping away will Tell you if youre exercising you need a goal what therapists Call a training heart to find subtract your age from then take 70 percent and 90 percent of the these figures make up the heart rate Range needed to achieve if you dont exercise enough to reach these youre not doing much for the Range for a 35year old is about 130 to How does this 35yearold know if Hes exercised enough to reach his Range at any Point during the he should take his pulse for six seconds and multiply by if its within the Hes if he should continue for another five minutes and test a beginner could Stop at How does he know to increase his activity before he should take his pulse for six seconds and multiply by after if his heart rate returns to its resting rate within 10 he can increase his beginners should aim for the lower end of the Range and build up people taking Medicine to control High blood pressure should consult their 16 the stars and stripes june the stars and stripes Page 17