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Students get motivated to lose extra pounds gained over winter holiday
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By Eric Aikin
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One thing is heavy on the minds of students
who just returned from winter break: their weight.
A break from school and studying
means a break from regular exer
cise for many students. Workout
and eating habits might have gone
astray during vacation, but now is
the perfect time to get back on
track.
Angela Stanton-Anderson, ad
vertising manager for the Texas
A&M Department of Recreation
al Sports, said the get-back-in
shape crowd usually increas
es considerably this
time of year.
“Between now and the second
week in March [The Student Recreation Cen
ter] is flooded with people getting ready for
spring break,” Stanton-Anderson said.
No matter what a student’s
motivation for exercising, getting
started can often be the hardest
part. A big crowd of people who
all seem to know what they are do
ing can intimidate someone just
beginning a fitness program. To as
sist beginners, the Rec Center has
a personal training staff.
Stanton-Anderson said she rec
ommends working with a personal
trainer for at least a session or two.
She also said this can help students
ease into their fitness program and
feel more comfortable in the gym.
“They can bring you into
the comfort zone,” she said.
One of the problems she
said she sees is people
walking into the weight
room and having no idea
how to use the equip
ment. A personal trainer
can help students use the
equipment and make a
workout run smoothly.
Personal trainers at
the Rec Center will work
with individuals or
groups.
Bill Windscheif, general
manager at Gold’s Gym in
College Station, said per
sonal trainers can motivate
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people to stick to their program^.
“You’ve got to have clearly defined, attainable
goals,” he said. “A personal trainer can help you set
and reach those goals.”
Another unfounded fear of newcomers
is being out of place in a weight room filled
with body builders. Windscheif said most
people who come into the gym are not body
builders.
“Come in and see,” Windscheif said.
“Less than 1 percent of all Gold’s members
are what you would call a muscle head. At
Gold’s, you see everyday, average
people.”
A “normal” diet includes lots of fruits and vegeta
bles. A daily diet should follow the Food Guide Pyra
mid, which recommends six to 11 servings of bread,
cereal, rice or pasta; three to five servings of vegeta
bles; two to four servings of fruit; two to three serv
ings of meat, poultry, fish, dry beans, eggs or nuts;
two to three servings of milk, yogurt or cheese; and
a sparing use of fats, oils and sweets.
Rahn said a dieter should be careful
with salads.
“It’s easy to make a healthy salad
bad for you by piling on the ranch
dressing,” she said.
Students living in residence
Windscheif
also said it is important for peo
ple just beginning a fitness pro
gram to work with personal
trainers.
One obstacle to meeting fit
ness goals is a lack or loss of
motivation. Stanton-An
derson and Windscheif
said variety is the best
way to maintain interest in working out.
The Rec Center offers a wide variety of exercise op
tions including free weights.and a 42-foot indoor rock-
climbing structure.
“This is one of the most amazing facilities I have
ever seen,” Stanton-Anderson said. “There are so many
different things people can do to stay motivated.”
Windscheif said a good way to stay motivated is to
have a workout partner.
“That makes it fun and provides accountability,” he
said. “If you know someone is waiting for you, you’re
more likely to go to your workout.”
Once a workout program is in place, it can still be
hard to lose holiday pounds without a proper diet.
Rhonda Rahn, a health educator at A.R Buetel
Health Center, said people should try to stick to a sen
sible diet in order to stay healthy.
“It’s OK to splurge, but get back into a normal diet,”
Rahn said.
halls are allowed to use microwaves.
Healthy foods such as steamed vegeta
bles and baked potatoes can easily be
prepared in the microwave, Rahn said.
Rahn said eating six small meals a
day rather than three large ones is a
—— healthy way to eat. Students can carry
sandwiches and fruit with them for be-
tween-meal snacks.
Rahn said she suggests cutting back on alcohol,
which contains empty, or non-nutritive, calories.
A person trying to lose weight should eat at least
1,200 calories a day.
“Your body needs a certain amount of calories to
maintain its functions or you get sluggish,” Rahn said.
Jenny Dean, a senior nutrition major, offers advice
to those trying to lose weight.
“I recommend taking it slow,” she said. “If you stop
eating or fad diet, you’ll gain the weight back.”
To set up a proper diet, students should research and
consult with professionals. Beutel, in conjunction with
the Rec Center, offers the Food Processor Program,
which gives students an individual dietary and fitness
analysis. For more information, call the health educa
tion office at 847-8910.
Gold’s Gym also offers a free online nutrition guide
at www.goldsgym.com.
ster to head jury
Cannes festival
. , PARIS (AP) — Jodie
^ foster will head the jury at
tie 54th Cannes Film Fes-
)SPM mK : jival in May, festival offi-
m wn iWls announced Tuesday.
['Jj S ate; Foster, “has received
« ‘• N he highest honors. It was time for
.fcnvH le rto come to Cannes,” Gilles Jacob,
p festival’s president, said in a
tement.
“I’ve dreamed since my childhood
r 4fhaving the honor of being president
ALIZEIN )f the Cannes jury,” the statement
quoted Foster as saying.
1 The festival runs from May 9-20,
sj* 03- yt the rest of the jury will not be an-
lounced until the end of April.
^ _ Foster won best actress Oscars for
iniALtpeAccused in 1989 and The Silence
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Liz Taylor rules out
Jnarrying ninth time
r/lI L0S ANGELES ( Ap ) ~ Twice an 0s -
4 I j()ar winner and eight times a bride,
Elizabeth Taylor says she has no iQ-
terest in extending her string of mar
riages to nine.
“I’d live with someone if he were
cute, intelligent, compassionate,
adorable, had a good sense of hu
mor,” the actress, sporting a new loo^
with a bright red hairstyle, said on
CNN’s “Larry King Live” Monday nighf.
But she ruled out marry
ing again.
Taylor said she had
two great loves in her life,
actor Richard Burton, who
was married to her twice,
and Broadway producer
Mike Todd, who died in a plane crash
just 13 months into their relationship.
The actress, who has overcome
several serious health problems
throughout her life, also said,
“There must be some reason that
God wants me to live.”
“There must be something left for
me to do,” said Taylor, who has spent
much of her time in recent years
raising money to fight AIDS. “And I
have to find out what that something
is and go out there and do it!”
Chile gives Sting
human rights award
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — British
rocker Sting has been decorated with
a human rights award by
the Chilean government.
The Gabriela Mistral
medal, named after
Chile’s 1945 Nobel Prize
winning poet, was be
stowed Monday on Sting
by Foreign Minister Soledad Alvear.
“Sting has made a very important
contribution to the world and to our
country by promoting the cause of hu
man rights,” Alvear said.
Sting has met with rights groups
here, as well as leaders of an orga
nization representing dissidents who
disappeared during the 17-year dic
tatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
He has also participated in bene
fit concerts, and in the 1980s he
wrote the song “They Dance Alone,”
a tribute to women who lost their hus
bands. to repression during the
Pinochet regime.
Among those attending the cere
mony was Isabel Allende, daughter of
Salvador Allende, the Marxist presi
dent toppled by Pinochet.
Trump bans golfer
from Florida club
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) —
Donald Trump has swung back at a
golfer who allegedly clubbed an ex
otic black swan to death.
The golfer, who was playing at the
$40 million Trump Inter
national Golf Club two
weeks ago as the guest of
a member, has been
banned from all of Trump’s
properties worldwide.
“I spoke with the mem
ber and relayed to him that his guest
is not to set foot on any of my prop
erties again,” Trump said. “I don’t
care if it was self-defense or not. The
actions seemed excessive.”
Guest Cyril Wagner told investiga
tors he killed the 50-pound bird in
self-defense with one swing. One club
member said the swan had exhibited
aggressive behavior in the past.
Last Dance ranks
No. 1 in box office
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The hip-hop flick Save the Last
Dance topped the weekend box office, debuting with $27,5 mil
lion during the long Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend.
1. Save the Last Dance, Paramount, $27.5 million, 2,230 lo
cations, $12,344 average, $27.5 million, one week.
2. Cast Away, Fox, $19.8 million, 3,048 locations, $6,489 av
erage, $167.8 million, four weeks.
3. Traffic, USA, $13.4 million, 1,527 locations, $8,800 av
erage, $35.3 million, three weeks.
4. Double Take, Disney, $11.7 million, 1,631 locations,
$7,196 average, $11.7 million, one week.
5. What Women Want, Paramount, $11.6 million, 3,092 loca
tions, $3,762 average, $153.6 million, five weeks.
6. Thirteen Days, New Line, $11.3 million, 2,029 locations,
$5,561 average, $11.9 million, four weeks.
7. Finding Forrester, Sony, $11.1 million, 2,002 locations,
$5,551 average, $20.5 million, four weeks.
8. Miss Congeniality, Warner Bros., $10.6 million, 2,668 lo
cations, $3,968 average, $79.4 million, four weeks.
9. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Sony Picture Classics,
$10.3 million, 693 locations, $14,908 average, $30.3 million,
six weeks.
10. The Emperor’s New Groove, Disney, $7.8 million, 2,237
locations, $3,505 average, $71.5 million, five weeks.
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