Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Suddenly the dragster sags, except for the propped-up side of the wing; the wrinkled strut has heated up and stretched out. Kalitta jams another two- by-eight between the struts and throws his weight against this lever to fine tune the straightening. After considerable additional work, he steps back to examine the results, which aren't wholly successful. But then, a normal start tends to lift the opposite side of the car anyway. Maybe a crooked wing will counteract that. He raises his hands in a papal blessing and grins. "The torque'll lean it just right," he declares...
While only 5 percent of all individuals with eating disorders are men, Honnet believes men are starting to become more vulnerable. "In the 1980s, men's magazines increasingly focus on looks--GQ and Esquire both have clothing spreads. There's more focus on men's weight," she says...
Jennifer C. Keeler '86 studied men and women on the lightweight and heavyweight crew teams as well as the basketball team for her senior thesis for the Psychology Department. While she found that men on both teams were more concerned about weight than normal, they did not have an excessive or dangerous preoccupation with weight. "In general, athletes tend to be pretty healthy," she says, though she adds she did find some individuals who had problems. "It's more of an individual thing or predisposition than something that is caused by a sport that has a weight restriction," she says...
...coaches of the crew teams try to watch their rowers and catch any students who may be having nutrition problems, says Harry Parker, the men's heavyweight crew coach. "Certainly when some of the lighweights have to lose weight, they think about it a lot. But I haven't seen anybody exhibit what I would consider dangerous levels." Parker says the coaches try to counsel their rowers about good nutrition and eating patterns. The counseling "has been very effective in recent years," he says...
Crew teams have an obvious reason for concern about weight. Lightweight rowers have to weigh in at a certain level or they don't row in that boat. But for many other people, weight concerns develop for less discernable, psychological reasons...