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Healthy Living Monday, May 30, 2005 E8 Austin American-Statesman statesman.com LEBLANC: Shower your sweaty body, no water required! Continued from El in 11111 jk jjl 'X A 4 Brian K. Diggs AMKltlcAN-STATESMAN When you can't get to water, use Rocket Shower, Walking, hiking, running, tennis and weight training. Members can search the site by sex, age, ZIP code and activity. "One of our goals is to help (Mayor Will Wynn) make this the No. 1 fittest city in the country," says McCluskey, 31.

Now Garcia is looking for someone to play tennis. No luck yet, but he's hopeful. Prepare to go into thin air If you've ever tried biking up a mountainside in Colorado, you know what a difference altitude makes in performance. I learned that lesson last summer while cycling from Durango, to Moab, Utah. I was gasping for breath just a few minutes in.

Maybe a month's worth of visits to Austin's own simulated altitude training center would have helped. I stopped by AltiMax Training Center, 4201 Marathon last week, where a couple of cyclists were lounging on easy chairs, watching television and holding what looked like oxygen masks to their faces. Breathing air with a lower concentration of oxygen triggers the body to create more red blood cells, which allows the body to grab and use more oxygen. That means better performance, according to AltiMax co-founder Todd Clarke. At AltiMax, customers spend an hour alternating every five minutes between breathing regular air and lower-oxygen air from a "hy-poxicator." Their blood oxygen level is monitored during this intermittent hypoxic training.

"It's part of taking it to the next level," said Shaun Dean, 27, a Bicycle Sport Shop employee and competitive cyclist who was soaking up his 16th treatment. Besides experiencing less lactic acid build-up in his muscles, Dean says he can now chase down the fast group on weekly Tuesday night group rides. I decided to try it myself. In Austin, the air we breathe is about 20.9 percent oxygen. Clarke set the machine to pump out air that was just 12 percent oxygen, roughly the equivalent of what you'd find at 14,763 feet.

My heart rate increased slightly and my blood oxygen level dipped. After a 5-minute break, Clarke set the machine at 9 percent oxygen, the equivalent of being at the summit of Denali 21,653 feet. My heart rate climbed to 71 beats per minute. When I started to feel light-headed, I removed the mask. Clarke says it takes about three weeks for athletes to see results.

His customers include tri-athletes, a firefighter training for a firefighting competition in Colorado, a goat hunter traveling to Uzbekistan and a runner who races up mountains. Treatment costs $375 for three weeks (that's an hour a day, five days a week) or $450 for four weeks. For more information, call 300-2212. I mil T'ffr 'Mi'na Mil 1 Al.TIMAX Shaun Dean breathes in low-oxygen air, which helps the competitive cyclist decrease the amount of lactic acid in his muscles and increase his red blood cell production. swim coach again.

I'm always going to be posi- tive, I swear. This after reading an advance copy of his soon-to-be-released book, "Dr. Keith Bell's 76 Rules for Outperforming the Competi- tion." Bell, who has penned 10 other books, most of them about swimming or sports psychology, and coaches an adult swimming team called TeamTexas, says this volume applies to busi- ness as readily as sports. The idea arose after he put his swimming philosophy down on paper. "I wrote 25 rules that were mine, things like, 'If you lose count (during swim practice), start and 'First in, last out' things that I thought were really important in the pursuit of excellence," he says.

He realized he'd just scratched the surface, and that his rules applied to more than just swimming. Among his favorites in the book? Rule No. 13: If you're going to do it, make it fun. (Thus, we never call our swim practice a Rule No. 34: Find a way to make it happen.

Rule No. 75: Act with honesty and integrity. "Because the world is a much better place when we do, in the long run we tend to have more true success when we do, and we tend to enjoy our actions and our successes more when we do," Bell says. So why 76 rules, instead of 75 or 100? "Conventional things like round numbers interfere with creativity, with superlative performance," Bell says. The quick read, which sells for $14.95, will be available locally at Lane Four Swim Shop and online at keelpublications.com.

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So far, the group has raised $315,000 of the $1 million needed to restore the 1936 building. Saturday's party will feature live music, food and drink, with proceeds benefiting the restoration fund. Deep Eddy, the oldest pool in Texas, is at 401 Deep Eddy Drive, off Lake Austin Boulevard, in Eilers Park. For more information, go to www.deepeddy.org. Coach's rules all 76 of them I'm never grumbling within earshot of my Don't stink up the office Stinky, sweaty and in need of a shower, but have no running water? Try a squirt from Rocket Shower, a spray-on body cleaner created by Linda DuPriest, an Austin woman who knows what it's like to ride a bike to work and not have access to a locker room.

Former head of the bicycle pedestrian program at the City of Austin, DuPriest, 46, tested her product for two years on cyclists and co-workers who walked at lunch. "I just tried to think of a way you could get yourself a little bit cleaner than splashing around with water in a sink," she says. She describes Rocket Shower as "kind of like Windex for your body." The spray-on blend of witch hazel, alcohol, peppermint oil, grapefruit peel oil, Vitamin and water, wipes away sweat and is designed to stop bacteria from causing body odor. Rocket Shower sells for $8.95 for an 8.5-ounce bottle or $5.25 for a 4-ounce bottle and is available in Austin at RunTex, 360 Cycleworks, Wa mm MmM 4f Vanciftg vff Come m. ficfo tfotyw Beginner's Series are 50 off in June! Only $49 for 8 classes.

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