By Deann Hess
Men, muscles, iron, weights, sweat.
But wait, something is missing.
Women, Capital Iron has several
female members. This is a fitness club,
fitness being the key word. It is not a
club of thick-brained, muscle-bound
jocks.
"There is more to lifting weights
than just lifting. The idea that we're
muscleheads who only know how to lift
weights is nonsense. We have to know
about our bodies, nutrition, and safety,"
said John D'Ambrosia, secretary/treas
urer. '
A proper diet and exercise can help
improve the way a person looks and
feels. Resistance training is used by
most professional athletes as a
supplement to their regular sports
training.
"Weightlifting/Body Building, isn't
just physical. . . . Better body, better
mind," said Rich Stransky, president.
The club's main goal is to get more
students involved.
Stransky stressed that it's the
students' gym.
The gym is open Monday through
Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. and
Saturday and Sunday 1:00 p.m. to 7:00
Students pump iron in the CUB weightroom
Intramural Golf Scramble Is Fore! Novices, Pros
By Derrick Stokes
Beginning Oct. 7, students and
faculty will start their quest for birdies
and eagles. Please don't alert the
humane society.
Penn State Harrisburg's Intramural
Golf Scramble will be held next week at
the Sunset Golf Course.
"The I.M. Golf Scramble is a
recreational way to stimulate interest in
golf," said Athletic Director Duane
Crider.
Each group will have four players;
Participants will be seperated into
Capital Iron
Boosts Fitness
D'Ambrosia is currently training
several females.
Capital Iron will be co-sponsering a
seminar for beginners with the
Recreation/Athletic Department.
Capital Iron is hosting a bench-a
thon Oct. 20 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Each participant will go out and get
sponsers for the maximum weight they
can bench on three attempts.
Standard competition lifting
regulations will be followed.
With the funds raised from the bench
a-thon, the club plans to do minor
renovations with the weight room.
"The weight room has been neglected
since before Capital Iron was founded,"
said D'Ambrosia, club founder.
You don't have to be a Capital Iron
member to participate in the bench-a
thon.
Contact one of the club's 12 active
members for more information.
Capital Iron has special hours for
members only: Sundays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays -- 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. and
Saturdays from 11:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Only persons with a club
membership I.D. can use the gym at
these times.
different groups according to skill.
Skill levels will be determined by the
information filled out on the entry
forms.
The levels range from the lowly
novice to the weekend Arnold Palmer.
Each group will consist of four
players with various skills. With I.M.
Golf Scramble, it's possible for Pee Wee
Herman and Tom Watson to be
teammates.
Everyone participates because it is a
best-ball scramble.
In non-golfing English this means
that a player's best three tee shots must
Aerobics Heat Up CUB
A good outlet for a stress-filled day is
aerobics. Liz Tammaro can provide
this for all Penn State Harrisburg
students and faculty in the Capital Union
These students work out with Liz Tamaro as she paves the road to fitness
With the help of Julie Rocks, theyb
started these classes in 1986. Twog
semesters later PSH officially hired them
to work as aerobic instructors.
There is usually an average of ten
people in every class.
"The same people keep comingt
back," said Tammaro.
"I always get positive feedback, but Ik
would really like to see those people r i
who are afraid of aerobics for whateve
reasons to come and try it."
For more information, call Tammaro
at 948-1817. It%
Our own PSH basketball team uses
aerobics as a way to clear the mind and
warm up before each practice.
Each class begins with a warm-up
and a waist exercise.
The class then does 20 minutes of
aerobic dancing and one-half hour of
toning on the floor.
Class ends with a cool down.
Low impact sessions are available on
Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:15 p.m.
to 6:15 p.m.
High impact sessions are available
Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:00
p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Tuesdays and
Other tips you can follow to keep
your back and body healthy are:
*Stand tall. Good posture is neither
relaxed, slumped-shoulder stance nor a
military, shoulders-back stance. If you
stand as tall as you can, the whole
weight of your body will be straight up
and-down and squarely centered over your
feet.
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be used.
This reinforces the non
competitiveness.
A team's best and worst players will
have the same number of shots.
Therefore, individual scores will be
discouraged but team scores will be kept.
"Competition is not the purpose,"
said Crider. "The main purpose is to
have fun."
Unfortunately, the $l5 entrance fee
only pays for the golf cart, the greens
fee, and the soon-to-be-famous I.M. Golf
Scramble T-shirt.
The Sunset Golf Course does not rent
By Christine Reilly
Continued from page 10
*Don't sit for long periods at a time
Thursdays from 9:00 p.m. to 10:0(
p.m., and Sundays from 6:00 p.m. tc
7:00 p.m.
Tammaro, who became an aerobic
instructor seven years ago, started hei
own aerobics classes here at Penn Stat
H. 3bi
The cramped position you assume
working at a computer terminal or
hunched over books is very taxing on
your body. Take short breaks and
stretch. Also, as you sit, try resting
your feet on a book or two. If your
knees are higher than your hips, some of
the stress is taken off the back.
*Always stretch and warm up before
exercising. Stretching exercises will
help keep the body flexible and increase
your range-of-motion.
out clubs; because the athletic
department only has a few sets,
prospective golfers will have to scramble
for ownership of golf clubs.
"Basically, what you need is six
clubs -- a putter, a driver, a three-iron, a
five-iron, a seven-iron, and a nine-iron,"
said Crider.
Golf will be an inter-collegiate sport
next semester at Penn State Harrisburg.
This is an opportunity to sharpen and
improve skills for next year.
So, don't be alarmed if you see trees
and bushes walking on the golf course;
it's probably the golf coach.