Page 8 University Daily Kansan, September 17, 1981
Weights, exercise combine to help heart
By EILEEN MARKEY Staff Reporter
As one of the early fitness freaks, Michael Kelly, a KU alumnus, was a strange sight when he took to the roads and dug 1980s and began a running program.
"People used to drive by me and say, 'Hev, need a lift?'
Now, as millions of runners flock to the Olympics after year, Kelly is the odd-man out—he's not
KELLY IS the author of "The Fitness Factor," a book that explains how body building techniques can develop carbohybridness as well as strength and endurance.
Kelly will be at the Town Crier Bookstore, 930 Massachusetts St., to autograph copies of the book, which she has been Aroo, Inc., Saturday from 11:40 a.m.
"Most people think you have to run or jog for cardiovascular fitness, but you can build your cardiovascular system and keep your blood pressure up by
using relatively light weights and doing movements quickly," Kelly said yesterday.
Kelly said his book used pictures and charts to explain eight basic movements for a beginning body building program.
"Each move is broken down into a start, a movement and a finish," he said.
THE BOOK also includes advanced techniques and a chapter on self motivation to help eliminate negative feelings toward exercise. In fact, Kelly said he went through great pains to keep him from "kicking out" and "exercise" out of the book.
Kelly said when he began his personal program in 1970 he needed a lot of help.
"I was working out only 14 times a year and not doing very much," he said. "There were some good television shows on that I used to watch, so I made a rule for myself that I couldn't watch TV until after I had lifted."
Eventually, Kelly said he began to watch television while he lifted. When
he got tired of television, he would listen to the stories or do other things to get him through.
KELLY RECEIVED an master's in human development from the University of Kansas in 1973 and a Ph.D. in behavioral science in 1975. During that time, he also was researching ways to develop aerobic capacity with the use of weights and weight-lifting exercises.
"There are 128 footnotes in the book to support the things I learned over the years."
In his book, Kelly negates many of the current myths about exercise, weight lifting and fitness in general. The "summer shape-up" programs are the most popular magazines advocating seven-day spot reducing are really a fallacy, he said.
"They're worthless programs because they don't achieve much," he said. "You need some form of aggressive resistance to build strength."
Kelly also squeaked the myth that intense training and increased weight
lifting would create the type of muscles flaunted by Mr. Universe and many competitive body builders.
"They all use sterilis and drugs to achieve that look, and they use them in large doses," he said. "It's dangerous because it causes cancer and destroy kidneys."
"I wrote it non-sexist," Kelly said.
UNLIKE MANY current fitness books, Kelly's doesn't include a separate chapter "for women only." He writes a separate chapter on the sonal level, using "you" or "they" to refer to all readers who wanted to benefit from his fitness program.
Buzzie Gentry, Kelly's wife and coordinator of development at KU's early childhood institute, is also a body builder, and she helped Kelly write the
"She did most of the writing," Kelly said.
Gentry and Kelly have been married for three years, and Gentry has been body building for four. She went from 120 pounds in one year, Kelly said.
The fitness factor
Michael Kelly, author of "The Fitness Factor," and his wife, Buzzie Gentry, have both appeared in several body-building contexts. They are residents of Lawrence.
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