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University Daily Kansan / Monday, December 9, 1991
Is it me?
Looking for something to fight the biting wind, Chris Allison, Olaite sophomore, tries on a stocking cap from a display at the Kansas Union. The cold weather attracted many students to last week's display.
Regular, vigorous exercise can help burn extra holiday pounds most people gain
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Sin creates its own punishment, and this is the busy season for the sin of gluttony — for which the punishment is fat.
Expiation for this sin is exercise.
"What I really hate is to have a person go into the holidays and it's a disaster," said aerobics guru Dr. Kenneth Cooper of Dallas. "They gain and they stop exercising and they don't start back."
People can expect to gain some weight — a couple of pounds is reasonable, said Cooper, founder and president of The Aerobics Center in Dallas. Experts estimate the average holiday weight gain at five to 10 pounds.
"They have a devil of a time taking it off." Cooper said.
Exercise alone cannot control your weight if you insist on eating and drinking everything in sight. However, regular exercise *will* help you prevent a real splurge, and may help you lose it afterward," Cooper said.
Walking a mile in 15 minutes or jog it in eight, can burn about 100 calories
per mile. Cooper said. So covering
compensation for lesions
(Coward) can be compensate
A good time to get vigorous exercise is before eating, he said.
"Exercise before a meal suppresses appetite," he said. "It makes you tired."
A bad time for vigorous exercise is up to 90 minutes after eating, he said. A big meal makes your body shift blood to the stomach, Cooper said, while powerful exercise shifts blood to the heart and increases flow feeding the heart and brain and can trigger suffocation or spasms in some people.
However, if you're capable of moderate exercise 45 minutes after you eat, you can do your body a lot of good, said David A. Levitsky, professor of nutrition and psychology at Cornell University.
A brisk walk of about 20 minutes can burn off maybe 10 percent of the meal's extra calories. Levitsky said.
You also can put your pounds into perspective. If you can increase your exercise and bring your eating habits back to normal after a holiday meal,
you can create enough of a caloric deficit to slowly shed the weight.
Besides, the damage may be less than you fear.
"Most of us don't really pig out as much as we think," said Charles T. Kuntzleman, an adjunct associate professor of physical education at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. "We allow one meal of (uncontrolled self-indulgence) to sort of skew us into a guilt trip."
Most people will "eat 2,500 calories or whatever and feel gross out," he said. There is a reason for that — 2,500 calories a day's total or more for most adults.
It can be less difficult than you think to burn off the extra calories, if you work exercise into your ordinary patterns of living. Kuntzler said,
Maybe you can establish a family tradition of a walk on a big holiday meal day. Kuntzleman said.
Scott Roberts' family has. When the instructor at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque gets together with his folks in California, about 20 of them go for a run of three to five miles
Kansas teams work for success both in and out of classroom
Continued from, p.1
For the third straight year, the Kansas swimming teams earned All-Academic team honors from the College Swimming Coaches of America. The men's and women's teams recorded identical 1.30 GPs during the 1990-91 academic year.
"There is no professional swimming, and I hope there never is," said Kansas swimming coach Gary Kempf. "We our priorities very clearly. They are here to get an education."
Kempf said he did not judge his value as a coach at the end of the season.
"I gague the success of our program 10 years after they're gone," Kempf said. "If they're happy and successful if they, I know we've done a good job inbhert."
Degree vs. the pros
However, the athletes in sports that do offer a professional career have slightly lower GPAs.
Baseball, football and men's basketball bring up the rear in Kansas' academic rankings
In 1988, the Jayhawks' national championship basketball team recorded a 1.86 in the fall and a 2.16 in the spring.
The Jayhawks' 1991 First Four team showed considerable academic progress from Kansas' previous Final Four team. Last spring, the team's 2.66 GPA was its highest in the past six years.
Baseball coach Dave Bingham said the sports with professional career tracks fought an added difficulty in keeping students focused on academics. Some athletes see college as the path to the pros, not a place to learn.
"In many cases, a kid will come in with his only hope being to get a pro contour."
The baseball team recorded the athletic department's lowest GPA with a 2.48. During the past four years, the team has been placed in school to pursue professional baseball.
Bingham said that though there was a chance an athlete may be signed, very few made it to the major leagues.
"Any kid might have that chance." Bingham said. "The unrealistic part is, will he make a good living at it?
"The critical factor is how much money is involved. He might be better off
Sports GPAs on the rise
Five Kansas sports teams recorded new record grade point averages in Spring 1991. Kansas student athletes compiled a cumulative 2.81, the highest GPA since the statistic was first recorded in 1986.
Source: Kansas Sports Information
putting his degree to work for him. In the baseball program, there's an opportunity academically and athletically. We offer our students the opportunity to provide our athletes with a solid career."
Working toward a goal
Michael Gier/KANSAN
Though Jayhawk student athletes have a respectable graduation rate, at least one of Kansas' peer institutions has a significantly higher rate.
The University of North Carolina's student athletes have the highest graduation rate among peer institutions at 70.7 percent. Overall, North Carolina students graduate at an astounding rate of 74 percent.
Fredrick said the Kansas athletic department had set a graduation-rate of 80%.
"Obviously, we would like to have a 100 percent graduation rate, but with transfers, injuries and dropouts, that's unrealistic," he said. "We feel a realism goal is 75 percent. We hope to be into the 70s within two or three years."
The expansion of the Parrott Athletic Center might help Kansas reach that goal. Part of the expansion, expected to be completed next fall, will provide student support services with additional space. Walden said that new facilities, combined with improved recruiting of student athletes, made 75 percent an attainable goal.
"I think we have the resources in place," he said. "I'd like to think that with the freshman classes we've had the last two or three years, we'll reach that set."
Coaches and the support staff can do
down to the individual. Randall said
"At KU, they stress graduation and getting a diploma," he said. "The coaching staff pushes you to do well in the classroom, but you have to have dedication and motivation academically. It comes down to you."
Sands said he used the program as an underclassman but now studies on his own.
"I used that program all the way up until last semester," he said. "It helped us on our feet."
Now within reach of his goal, Sands said that as an underclassman, he did not know what he was going to do.
"It itdn't really sink in to me until got older," he said. "I've got a family, and I really need my degree to achieve my goals outside of football."
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