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Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), February 14, 1979, p. 31

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HERALD Wefaeafay Full slate of activities for Fitness Week Fitness Week in Ha on Hills begins Feb is and Operation Action is groups to get involved in during hat week Operation Action Is a three person team sponsored by a Canada Works grant and the own or Hills whose goal is to Increase area real dent awareness of and part icipatlon In physical fitness activities Fitness Week has been organized by Operation Act Ion as one means of ving hat goal The week leads off with the Regional Winter Carnival al Kelso Conservation Area Feb 18romillo4pm The day activities Include sleigh rides tobogganing skating crosscountry ski rentals rentals log sawing contest and many other activities On Monday he winning entries In the Flair for Fitness art contest will be put on display McDonald s Restaurant where they will remain for the rest of the week The contest calls for elementary school students working Individually or in groups to design collages or murals with a fitness theme McDonalds will be supply trig plaques for the winner The deadline for entries is Feb Tuesday Operation Action will be holding on exercise session for the members of the Blue Triangle Club at the 30pm In he evening Tony Walker will be giving a demonstration of judo Tor the First District Cubs and Seoul On Wednesday the Sports Travelcade will be at Gordon Alcott Arena from to p to talk about various sports There will also be a boxing clinic held by the travelcade from J SO to pm in the halt at he arena Also on Wednesday is the gymnastics night at SI Fra School starting The service clubs will be hearing presentations from Don Payne of Fitness On tario and Norm Woods of Running scores best Which physical activity is the best for one fitness A couple of years back 21 of North America most knowledgeable people when it comes to physical fitness gathered in New York City to discuss what benefits can be derived from eight activities The eight sports and activities discussed were running bicycling swimming hand boll squash tennis walking golf and bowling These sports were the ones studied because they are he ones which are participated in most by average North Americans That is people who do not heir profession or labor of love The way he wonng worked was that each expert who were doctors educators and he like gave each sport a score out of a possible on nine categories The scores were then averaged out Running was the only sport Riven in two categories It was judged by all the ex to be the best for cardi endurance and also for weight control The only other sport lo receive a perfect score was swimming which did for endurance The one aspect of this chart which may be questionable is the great disparity bet walking and golf Walking receives a much higher score than golf Apparently the experts judged golf on purely the hitting of the boll They must have forgotten that to get to the ball most people who golf still have do a great deal of walking Regardless of that possible flaw the results of the conference are very interesting With fitness week coming up we thought the chart would make for very interesting reading EIGHT SPORTS HOW MUCH THEY HELP WHAT HUM SWIM BALL WALK BOWL CLINC SQUASH TENNIS GOlF Physical Fitness Cardio 21 19 21 16 13 respiratory endurance Muscular 20 16 endurance Muscular 17 16 strength Flexibility 9 9 15 16 14 7 Balance 18 17 16 Genera Well Being Weight 19 16 13 control Muscle 14 15 1d 11 11 definition Digestion 13 12 13 11 Sleep 16 15 16 12 11 14 148 140 140 128 102 66 51 on Moms at the Wednesday from to p lo for the badminton clinic being held at McKenzie- Smllh Middle School in Acton Thursday evening from to The Lions Club Is holding a Challenge Swim Night al the Georgetown Indoor Pool from 9 to id p A little earlier In the day at noon Operation Action people will I be conducting an exercise ibreak at McDonalds The Sports will be open from to and 30 to on Saturday and Sunday Also on Satur day and Sunday are the Georgetown Racquet Club Mens Squash Tournament and the Georgetown Figure Skating Carnival at the Georgetown Memorial Arena Sunday from to 11 a m Operation Action people will be doing some fitness testing at McDonalds Colonel Sanders DELICIOUS DINNER SPECIAL nli tinrlkivin fkuuikL Im mllKumlnil A I timilt r I Mm in I ri air it in it a A complete dinner for just upon it a lit 1 1 i 1 punli i illi t until Mm in Kentucky fried Colonel Sander boy run I i chickenytfia SHEET GEORGETOWN

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