Hockey without the ice ‘a great way to sweat’
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Goalie Nell Gearheart tends off an attack from the offense during a Floor Hockey Club session.
By Rod Porsche
■ The Daily Barometer
Oregon State U.
Kvery Thursday night at 8:30, they
take the floor in Oregon State U.’s
women's PK building ready for another
night of intense action
At a time when most students are in
front of the “Cosby Show" waiting for a
pizza to arrive, Floor Hockey Club mem
bers are turning over benches to form
boundaries for the big game
“I had never even touched a hockey
stick liefore, hut it’s real easy to pick up,"
said Boh Thayer, who is in his second
term as a club member “It's a blast.”
“It's a great way to sweat,” club mem
ber John Lance added
It's shirts against skins every week
The most difficult task is convincing
someone to be goalie “I'd rather take
shots at people than have them take
shots at me.” newcomer lee Hatter said
They don't use a puck, opting for a
Mylec ball (about the size of a racquet
ball). "The plastic puck just bounces
around too much," club President Joe
Conyard said. “A ball in floor hockey
works more like a puck on ice."
Conyard started the club at OSU last
fall “This is kind of a ‘feeler’year for me
and the club I would definitely like to
see floor hockey form a league.”
Floor hockey, also called Deckhockey,
has powerful leagues on the Fast Coast.
In the West, a league may just be a
dream, but Conyard is still optimistic.
“You only need five or six guys to make
a team," he said.
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Exercise junkies
can cause more
harm than good
By Sonja Lewis
■ Stale Press
Arizona State U.
An increasing number of men and
women are identified as obsessive-exer
cise pathorexics people addicted to
exercise as a way of controlling their
weight
Pathorexics do not realize what they
are doing to themselves, according to
Arizona State l'. health officials.
Pathorexic exercise is characterized
as an eating disorder and is often more
difficult to detect by the victim and oth
ers than eating disorders like anorexia
or bulimia.
There are often visible signs with
anorexia or bulimia, such as vomiting
after meals and use of laxatives, but
overexercisers conceal some of the harm
ful physical effects of their disorder.
AST Health Center Physician Dale
Howen said “massive amounts of run
ning” often result in bone fractures,
muscle pulls and back problems.
Mary Iou Frank, ASU coordinator for
treatment of eating disorders, said most
overexercisers who think of phvseial
activity as the only healthy way to lose
weight, deny that they are harming
themselves.
“People don't realize they have it
because they don’t see it as a problem,"
she said She said that exercising
becomes both physically and mentally
unhealthy when people exercise
because of feelings of guilt and remorse
after eating.
Al vne Yales, a U. of Arizona associate
professor of psychiatry, has studied
overexercisers and found some runners
resemble anorexics in several ways:
• most are self-effacing, hard-working
achievers,
• most come from affluent or middle
class families,
• intense exercise begins after a time
of depression or uncertain identity and
• exercise gives them feelings of self
control.
ASU Health Center Nutritionist
Karen Moses said bulimics and
pathorexic exercisers are very similar
except in the way they manifest their
eating disorder. “What you might be see
ing in pathorexic exercisers is athletes
that like to exercise and don’t like to
vomit," she said.