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...hour of vigorous squash or racquet ball is followed by a 70-minute workout on the Nautilus weight-training equipment and a brisk four-mile run. A hundred sit-ups on a steep slant board, then 60 leg lifts, are topped off by 45 minutes of aerobics, propelled by pulse-pounding rock music. A muscle-stretching, gut-wrenching hour of calisthenics is succeeded by a karate class or a lengthy swim...
...muscular-ripple shows of the '80s: Magnum, P.I.; Voyagers!; High Performance and The Fall Guy. Nighttime TV resembles nothing so much as the locker room of the local Y, and the ability to read a line is less important than knowing how to use a Nautilus machine. "Young girls don't watch my show to see my wonderful acting," says Jon-Erik Hexum, star of NBC's Voyagers!, with what might be called naked honesty. "The hunk thing is the catalyst that gets them to watch...
...with emphasis on maintaining an intensity in drills that they will need for games. The last minutes of practice are spent on a conditioning circuit, which includes jumping rope, toe raises and push-ups. Before tryouts, Delaney Smith encouraged her athletes to work out on their own, in a Nautilus program, while alternating days with sprint work and skill drills...
...many Harvard professors use the Nautilus, maybe because they don't want weight room attendants to laugh, maybe because--as Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France Stanley Hoffman points out--"it's hard to park at the ITT." But a number of faculty members pursue physical fitness in other ways...
...weight room at the Indoor Track and Tennis facility on the Business School side of the Charles, funny stories about James Q. Wilson abound. Supervisory personnel claim that the Shattuck Profesor of Government tries to press "way too much weight" for his strength on the Nautilus machines. They say he uses both arms when he should only...