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They take running shoes with them on business trips, hoping to squeeze in a jog between meetings; they argue the virtues of their Adidases and their Pumas; they boast of surmounting new thresholds of pain and experiencing the mysticism of the second wind. They are the evangelists of fitness, a religion that has captivated the nation. We examine the phenomenon in our Living section this week...
BULLETIN: Actress and Fitness Enthusiast Farrah Fawcett-Majors has disappeared, under circumstances not yet explained, while warming up for her nude jog around the Central Park Reservoir. Details will follow when available...
...months ago, Lucy King, 35, a New Orleans housewife, began getting up at 5 a.m. to jog with her husband. "The first two weeks, my body thought I was going to die and my mind was convinced. I didn't want to do it. I hated it." Now, she says, she feels buoyant after her mile-and-a-half run, and the feeling lasts for most of the day. 'Tm pleased with myself...
...Noel Nequin started an exercise program for heart patients six years ago. The first step is a stress test, in which the subject runs on a treadmill while wired to an electrocardiograph. Then an exercise regime is set. The beginning pace may be a walk or a slow jog, with frequent pulse checks. Conditioning is slower than with healthy joggers, but the results can be startling. Ten of Nequin's patients, one of them a 47-year-old merchant who survived a triple bypass operation, were planning to run in a ten-mile race along the lakefront...
...some, the Aerobics routine may seem too much like what Vic Braden said jogging is, a second job. Another profitable brawnstorm, this one invented in Europe and developed in the U.S. by Peter Stocker, is called Parcourse. Dotted around its 1½-mile track are signs, directing the faithful to stop and perform an exercise, then jog on. Pa-course suggests a hybrid of miniature golf and the stations of the cross, and citizens should be warned, because its franchises, creeping eastward from California, can now be found in 65 cities...