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30 • OUT & ABOUT NASHVILLE • JANUARY, 2003<br />
O&AN<br />
by Susan Gates<br />
O&AN Sports Editor<br />
SPORTS<br />
National Women’s Football League changes name<br />
Dispute with NFL forces move to avoid confusion<br />
The National Women’s Football<br />
League is now known as the<br />
National Women’s Football<br />
Association after a dispute with<br />
the National Football League.<br />
The NFL had no beef with the<br />
fledgling NWFL. Prior to the<br />
2002 season, they even sent best<br />
wishes. That all ended when the<br />
women’s league made it to the<br />
sports betting scene at the end of<br />
the 2002 season however. Then<br />
the boys got nasty. Seems the<br />
NFL couldn’t take any chance<br />
that gamblers might mistake the<br />
NWFL with their league when<br />
placing bets.<br />
Start the New Year off<br />
right by hitting the gym<br />
OK, the New Year is here. You’ve<br />
decided that it is time to do something<br />
about that body of yours. What to do?<br />
Hit the gym, of course. But it’s been a<br />
while since you were last in a gym. Or<br />
maybe this is your first foray into this<br />
arena. You have a green light from<br />
your doctor to exercise, but now<br />
what?<br />
Here’s a general program that will<br />
get you in and out of the gym in a reasonable<br />
amount of time and give you<br />
a good foundation to build on. Before<br />
we dive into the program itself, let’s<br />
cover some basic<br />
rules:<br />
• Before every<br />
workout make<br />
sure you warm<br />
up and do a little<br />
light stretching.<br />
• Lower the weights slower than you<br />
lift them, but not super slow.<br />
• Your last repetition of an exercise<br />
should be fairly tough to complete. If<br />
you can’t reach your target number of<br />
repetitions, use less weight. If you<br />
reach your target number and feel like<br />
you could knock out one or two more<br />
reps, then add weight.<br />
• Don’t train the same body part<br />
two days in a row. Don’t train a muscle<br />
that’s still sore from a previous<br />
workout.<br />
And now the program... This is a<br />
full body training program. That<br />
means you’ll hit all the major muscle<br />
groups in one workout. Perform this<br />
program two or three times a week<br />
and remember the rule about not<br />
training when you’re still sore.<br />
1. Squats (or leg press)<br />
2. Pull-down (or pull-ups)<br />
3. Hamstring curls (or straight leg<br />
deadlifts)<br />
4. Dumbbell bench press<br />
5. Bicep curls<br />
6. Overhead dumbbell press<br />
7. Ab exercise of your choice<br />
8. Lying tricep extension with EZcurl<br />
bar<br />
Do the exercises in the order listed<br />
and start off easy. It will take a few<br />
sessions for your body to adjust to this<br />
new activity. Perform one or two sets<br />
per exercise. Rest 60 to 90 seconds<br />
between sets. Use a weight that allows<br />
you to complete 10 to 12 repetitions<br />
per set.<br />
Your last rep of a set should be difficult<br />
to perform but not to the point<br />
of muscular failure. You should feel<br />
that you could knock out one more<br />
rep if you really had to. When you can<br />
comfortably complete 12 repetitions at<br />
a given weight for your sets, increase<br />
the weight at your next workout.<br />
Spend a few weeks with this program.<br />
It’ll get you off to a good start.<br />
Next month we’ll look at how to take<br />
your training to the next level. Until<br />
then, here’s to your health. �<br />
Three days after the NWFL<br />
first appeared on a Las Vegas betting<br />
line, the big, bad NFL began<br />
sending threatening letters to the<br />
NWFL offices. Three demands<br />
were made: the name of the<br />
championship game had to be<br />
changed (it was called the<br />
SupHer Bowl), two of the team<br />
logos had to be changed, and the<br />
George Lamons and<br />
Jason Allen at<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong> Nightlife.<br />
name of the league had to<br />
change.<br />
NWFL founder Catherine<br />
Masters agreed to the first two<br />
demands but held her ground on<br />
changing the league name initially.<br />
The NFL is a bit too much to<br />
fight however, and the league’s<br />
official name change was<br />
announced Nov. 26. The name<br />
The <strong>Nashville</strong> Storms Group is looking for a<br />
few good people. They have gotten so big, so<br />
fast, that founder Jon Hageman II can’t do it<br />
all anymore. He is turning over operation of<br />
the Storms Group to a newly formed board of<br />
directors, officers, and commissioners.<br />
Hageman remains as chairman of the Board of<br />
Directors and will continue to be heavily<br />
involved in the group’s activities and direction.<br />
There are other motivations for making this<br />
change. The Storms Group will be incorporating<br />
in 2003. They will be creating articles of<br />
incorporation, by-laws, and other organizational<br />
documents and procedures to support their<br />
application for non-profit status. This is a big<br />
step for the group and requires more time and<br />
resources than Hageman had available to<br />
accomplish.<br />
Debbie Russell and Ron Veasey will be<br />
coming on as vice chairman and president,<br />
respectively. Cennie Guree brings her experience<br />
with other non-profit groups to the Board<br />
of Directors and the officer board as secretary<br />
for each. John Brown comes on as treasurer,<br />
with Traci Jackson filling the vice treasurer<br />
slot.<br />
There are two member-at-large positions<br />
open on the Board of Directors. Hageman<br />
change is minor but apparently<br />
acceptable to the NFL. The<br />
National Women’s Football<br />
Association takes the field in the<br />
spring of 2003. For more information,<br />
see their Web site at<br />
http://www.nwflcentral.com �<br />
-photo by Mike Robinson<br />
<strong>Nashville</strong> Storms reorganize, name board of<br />
directors, new officers take positions<br />
notes that these positions might not necessarily<br />
go to Storms members. He suggests it may be<br />
best to tap some outside experience and perspective<br />
to make the group stronger.<br />
The last rung of the newly formed organizational<br />
ladder will be commissioners and/or<br />
chairs for individual committees. Committees<br />
are Volleyball, Softball, Bowling, Explorers,<br />
View, Community Affairs, Media/PR, Web<br />
Services, and Corporate Fund-raising. Darrin<br />
Sylvera and Julie Griffin take on the Bowling<br />
committee, Susan Gates brings her varied contacts<br />
with the larger community to the<br />
Community Affairs committee, and Ron<br />
Veasey brings his experience with other fundraising<br />
efforts to the Corporate Fund-raising<br />
committee.<br />
Hageman and Veasey want to fill all remaining<br />
positions by the next meeting in mid-<br />
January. Storms members are encouraged to<br />
nominate people they feel would be beneficial<br />
to the organization in any of the open positions.<br />
Interested parties may also nominate<br />
themselves by contacting Hageman or Veasey<br />
either through the Storms Web site at<br />
http://www.nashvillestorms.com or via e-mail<br />
at stormsgroup@yahoo.com �
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