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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...
...East Bank Club, where Mayster and 8,000 other puffing Chicagoans work out, is one of the glittering sweat palaces that have proliferated to service these upscale fitness enthusiasts. Like its fancy counterparts elsewhere-New York City's Vertical Club and the New York Health & Racquet Club, suburban Washington's Sporting Club, Houston's Texas Club, the San Francisco Bay Club, West Los Angeles' Holiday Health Spa-the club has a clientele of well-to-do professionals, whose Jaguars, Mercedes and BMWs crowd the underground garage...
...fitness has other, more enticing attractions besides health. "Meeting people goes with it," says Dale Price, 29, a restaurateur in Arlington, Va., who spends a couple of hours daily playing racquet ball, pumping iron and jumping rope. "No one's hitting on someone, like in singles bars. The meeting is casual and easygoing." At some of the fancier coed clubs, the appeal is strongly sexual, and less serious members spend more time cruising poolside or matching sweatbands with leg warmers than they do working out. The laid-back atmosphere of the clubs and the sheer physicality of sleek, scantily...
...Waltke's costume signified, the decidedly un-Victorian game of tennis is visiting its past again, spending a 97th fortnight at Wimbledon. Last week, on just one typical afternoon at the old club, eighth-seeded Vitas Gerulaitis lost, chucked his racquet into the stands and refused to talk to anybody. Fifteenth-seeded Hank Pfister, able to put more top spin on his racquet, bounced it off the spongy grass court 15 ft. into the sky, across a fence and into the audience. He also lost, owing to a warning for "racquet abuse," a point's deduction...
...umpire's chair threatening to walk out of the tournament. In an injured voice, McEnroe said later, "I was warned for delay of game just for trying to put grass back into the hole I made." By the way, he had just gouged the turf with his racquet...