European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Row Row your boat to stay fit and Strong by Shirley Levy the Toledo Blade t s Early morning on the Maumee River and the rising Sun reveals an upside Down Skyline on the surface of the Calm Gray water. Stirred by a Light Breeze leaves Drift eerily across reflected images. The Lone sculler rowing upriver and some fishermen Angling for White Bass on the seawall Are the Only people around to see the fantasy City and smell the fresh morning air. A a Tom Cook 33, Maneu vers his narrow racing Shell past the seawall to the Low wooden Dock in the bight of the River lifts it dripping out of the water and carries it to a rack in the dimly lighted Boathouse. Morning on the River is a magic time says Cook who works 6 . To 6 . As a Conrail train master. The water is Beautiful like Glass and you really notice the Sunrise. I leave Wor k All stressed out and by the time i get in the rhythm of rowing my mind goes into a trance and i forget about everything else.�?�. Rowing not Only feels Good but it s Good for you according to Gunnar. Brolinson medical director of sports care at Toledo Hospital and a recreational rower himself. Rowing he says is one of the Best aerobic exercises because it engages All the major muscle groups in a rhythmic fashion. Like running it can help develop a High degree of cardio respiratory fitness and is also great for losing weight but rowing does t have the Impact loads on the body and is easier on the Knees he says. Even a casual observer can see at a glance that a sleek sliding seat rowing Shell is not a traditional Rowboat. The Shell is about eight times As fast. It also is much narrower and equipped with a sliding seat that lets a rower utilize the strength in his legs to propel a rower glides Down the Neckar River near Heidelberg Germany. A amps file the boat Forward. The seat is a drop in Assembly fitted with adjustable warlocks to hold a pair of 9-foot, 9-Inch oars. A rowing stroke is a two part operation. You Start by sliding Forward bending your Knees and leaning Forward at the Waist. Then you dip your oars into the water and slide Back extending your legs and pulling with your arms and Back. Although the sport in t difficult to learn it takes some practice to coordinate the movements of the seat legs and Back so the boat glides smoothly Over the water. Novices should go outa few times with a More experienced rower until they get the timing Down and learn to Feather the oars a Man Euver that lets the Blade skim Over the surface of the water without digging Imor stopping the boat. Quot learning to Row is like learning to ride a bicycle Quot says George Leboutillier general manager of Valley scullers inc. Quot for the first half hour you re wobbly and weaving All Over the Road but you quickly overcome your initial clumsiness. After that your rate of improvement is  a wide variety of recreational rowing boats with sliding seats is available. They Range from 16 to 20 feet in length and sell for around $2,000, on average. But the versatile Alden Ocean Shell is the Best Choice for beginners Leboutillier says. Fitness rowing also can be done at Home using a machine that provides the same Type of resistance and feel you get on the water. Scripps Howard news service costs by promoting prevention by Mitzi Perdue Scripps Howard news service when former Brig. Gen. Clara Adams Ender Speaks about reforming our health care system its Worth listening. At the Peak of her 34-year career in the army she was a responsible for managing policy development for More than 100,000 military health care professionals. The salary budget she handled was close to $2 billion. 1 a Adams Pindur says that virtually All of us can have better health and we can achieve it while reducing health care costs. Her idea does t depend on politicians and special  to agree of anything. Quot in this country Quot she says Quot we Don t have a health care system. We Hae a sickness Caje system. We spend less than 1 percent of our. Health care budget on prevention and ill the rest goes to illness care. We need to put chore Effort into the real health care which is prevention Quot we will never be Able to pay for All the diseases that people can get so instead we need to educate people to maintain their Good health while they have  she quotes the following list As proof that americans need education on Good health. It s a 1992 Michael Robbins Survey of the top 10 items americans buy in grocery stores Marlboro cigarettes Coke classic Pepsi cola Kraft processed cheese diet Coke Campbell s soups Budweiser Beer tide detergent Folger s Coffee and Winston cigarettes. On this list she Points out seven of the 10 items Are based on nicotine caffeine or alcohol. Of the remainder one is High in fat and one is generally High in . Quot we Are consuming too Many items that we know harm our health Quot she says adding she d like to see us eating More unprocessed foods such As fresh fruits vegetables and whole  subject sex before sports won t Hurt game performance by Ira Dreyfus the associated press does sex before a game reduce athletic performance some experts downplay a recent study indicating that it does. A a there a never been Good evidence that sex makes a difference and the new research does no to change this the experts say. At Issue is a study by israeli sex researchers who looked at 36 israeli soccer players. The athletes answered questions about their sex lives and their game performances. Forwards played better if they abstained for six to eight Days and defenders and the goalkeeper played better if they abstained four to five Days said researcher Mordechai Halperin of the Jerusalem Center for impotence and infertility. The study made its Way into the news earlier this summer when Germany the defending world cup Champion took the findings to heart and banned wives and girlfriends from the team s hotel in Chicago. However the findings were preliminary because relatively few players were involved and because the study did not actually measure performance on the Field Halperin said. Without an objective measure of play its possible that the players made false assumptions about How they played. Experts in the United states doubt the results would hold up under objective measurement. A people have raised this question for Many Many years a a said or. Gary i. Wadler a clinical associate professor of Medicine at Cornell University medical College in Manhasset n y. A i have seen nothing to support anyone changing their sexual  some coaches have encouraged abstinence for athletics Sake Wadler said. But it May be partly a result of magical thinking a the idea that for instance a male player May become More Macho on the Field by holding Back manliness elsewhere he said. A until i see hard evidence to the contrary this May be an old housewives tale a Wadler said. A on a physiological basis i see no justification for  in terms of Energy expenditure there a nothing in sex to Wear anyone out said or. Barry a. Franklin director of the cardiac rehabilitation and exercise laboratories a William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak Mich. Sex can raise a Middle aged Many a Energy. Expenditure by about three or four times what it would be if he were resting quietly Franklin said. But that a Only the equivalent of moderate walking he said. And sex does no to continue Long enough to us a of of ene.r9y at that rate Franklin said we Aren t talking about an activity that lasts hours. And it s possible that sex could help instead or Hurt athletic performance said Wadler a it could make a player feel Quot More  he underlines however that Little is known about any relationship Between sex and athletics. A the Point is its All hypothetical Quot Wadler f a pre 9ame adv be is to ignore any advice that Calls on a player to make big changes a Lead As Normal a life As you normally  20 the stars and stripes tuesday september 13,1994