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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Thursday, Oct. 10, 1985
Some KU men jumping at chance to do aerobics
By Susie Bishop Of the Kansan staff
Shed the image that aerobic exercise classes are just for women wanting to be fit and trim. More and more KU men are joining the aerobics craze and enjoying it.
"My friend coaxed me into joining my first aerobics class," Eric Bowie, Wichita senior, said yesterday.
"I went just to have fun, but it was really tough. It's harder than anything I've ever done. Aerobics is a great workout."
People used to joke about men who took aerobics classes, Bowen said, but times are changing and many more men are realizing the value of aerobic exercise.
Men need to take aerobics courses, said Bob Johnson, owner of The New Me Factor-E Aerobic Fitness, 711 W. 23rd St.
Aerobics strengthens the heart, which should be important to all men because they are more susceptible to heart attacks than women, Johnson said.
many men signed up.
"Most of the aerobics guys do is in their room in front of."
Tim Slater, Chanute freshman, said he didn't think many men signed up for aerobics classes.
If students won't go to exercise classes, sometimes the class will come to them.
Templin, Joseph R. Pearson and McCollum hires hired an aerobics teacher to give classes at the halls three times a week, said Mark L. Tucker, Wichita sophomore, who lives at Templin.
The dorm classes make getting in shape easier and more convenient, Tucker said. Aerobics is attractive to the busy student because calories are burned off rapidly, he said.
"It doesn't bother me to have people know I do aerobics," he said. "It's a challenge. Everytime I do it, I feel like I've improved myself."
Classes at Templin and JRP are designed for men and concentrate on flexibility, strength and muscle tone. Tucker said.
The teacher of the residence hall classes, Tracey Sargert, Overland Park senior, said, "Men have a tendency to want to work out alone."
"Men want a good workout and to work up a sweat," she said. "Women want to go out there and kill themselves."
Because aerobics involve each person monitoring his own heart rate, Sargert said, she views aerobics as a sport for the individual in a group.
Some of the men participating in the classes said they wouldn't mind exercising in a co-ed situation, but Chris Yeager, Arkansas City sophomore, said that for now he was more comfortable in the all-male atmosphere.
"I feel better that it is all guys," he said. "Men aren't accustomed to doing aerobics. I'd feel stupid if there were girls around."
If men had the option of signing up for an all-male or a coed course, most men would choose the coed one, Slater said.
He said, "If 10 guys signed up for an aerobics course, 100 percent would opt for the coed course because of the scenery.
"This isn't a existent comment," he said. "Men at KU are at the height of their sexuality."
The aerobics courses offered at KU are coed
Having women in the class provided incentive for Griffin and his friend to go to class and work out, he said.
Brian Griffin, Omaha, Neb., senior, said about 50 students were enrolled in his aerobics class, but only eight of them were men.
"We signed up for the class because we kind of want to do something about our stomachs." Griffin said.
The course is geared toward getting heart rates up, he said, but he hoped more muscle-toning exercises would be added.
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