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Page 11 Spring Horn* Living (B) April IS, Iff* ONCE-IN-A-UFETIME OFFER Z™ ZVo 50% OFF Fitness motivating women to sign up for workouts By Fred McNeese United Press International The YWCA in Raleigh, N.C., gets a lot of calls these days from women wanting exercise pro­ grams right after work. And stay-at-home mothers call to make sure child care is available during the day so they can work out. Raleigh is not unique. Women across America who grew up with little or no physical activity are now hitting the roads, racquetball courts, spas and other sports facilities where men once ruled, experts say. Eva Auchincloss, executive director of the Women's Sports Foundation in San Francisco, said more women are signing up every year for road races and other athletic events in which only a handful used to participate. She sees fitness as the motiva­ tion. Pearl Berlin, of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, who has studied sports motiva­ tion, said women's athletic activi­ ty is at an all-time high and still growing. "We are riding a new wave of popularity," she said. "We have people who, never in their whole life did anything remotely athletic, now getting out there and doing it, and more importantly, enjoying it." Berlin said sports make women feel better physically and provide a sense of fulfillment mentally. Other motivations, experts say, include social interaction, friend­ ship, anti-stress benefits and per­ sonal development. Berlin said statistics on women's athletic activity are scarce. "We never had occasion to know before it became relatively accep­ table for women to say they are athletes," she said. "We never really knew who was doing what. "Now there is certainly a much broader societal acceptance of women athletes." Dr. Jane de Hart Mathews, director of women studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said athletic involve­ ment is an outgrowth of the "Me Decade" of the 1970s when the em­ phasis was on developing one's potential. She also said girls in elementary school have been receiving more encouragement to be athletically Continued on next page ON FINE CRYSTAL CABINETRY CHOOSE FROM STOCK TO CUSTOM CRYSTAL CABINETS FOR YOUR HOME! CREAIIVE KITCHENS & BAIHS 818 N. FRONT ST. (S. Rt. 31) 815-344-1180 M-F 9-5, TH 9-8, SAT 10-4 DOUGHBOY POOLS FACTORY AUTHORIZED • THE #1 SELLING POOL • 39 YEARS OLD •ALL SIZES AND SHAPES FOR YOUR NEEDS • WE INSTALL WHAT WE SELL! SPAS - SPAS - SPAS • HOT SPRINGS - THE CADILLAC OF SPAS • BAJA • MANY-SIZES AND SHAPES • MARLIN - SEVERAL DIFFERENT IDEAS 1 ES ippp iliii! --J