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Hazleton Standard-Speaker, Thursday, May 23, 199S 9 jtzmzm wuiuz yiiig wiir uui iiiui jjHui iiuipxumis By IRA DREYFUSS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -Aerobics, facing declines in participation, is trying to invite more people to the dance. Fitness instructors are adding exercise bikes and weight training to the choreography, hoping to gain participants instead of sliding backward. aerobic crosstraining, including parts of step, slide and strength exercise, said Libbie Armstrong, aerobics coordinator at The Health Club of Reston. And the club in the Virginia suburbs of Washington is trying to draw senior citizens, with lower-intensity workouts to a slower beat, Armstrong said. more wearing than the front-to-back movements in other aerobics, which can call on larger leg muscles.

"People get tired of it," Davis said. However, slide seems to work if it's interspersed in other aerobic routines, she added. Instructors also are trying out other programs. Among these is CRYPTOQUIP QOSIE QOU GBJUA GNIEUJ, CUJZ JUTJUQQNGPZ, ONA PBLQ SIQUJULQ SI UCUJZQOSIT. Yesterday's Cryptoquip: MANY OF YOUR TEEN-AGED KIDS THINK THAT FREE SPEECH PURELY MEANS CALLING COLLECT.

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However, aerobics has yet to find a new trend-setter. One recent attempt, slide, has participants move from side to side on somewhat slippery plastic mats. "That is one ofgthe areas that did not do well," Davis said. The side-to-side movement is The decrease was cited in a survey by a demographics firm, American Sports Data. Its analysis of questionnaires from nearly 18,000 Americans found that high-impact aerobics was down 8.2 percent in 1995, low-impact was down 3.3 percent, and step aerobics was essentially flat at a .3 percent gain.

Aerobics still has a strong base. The Hartsdale, N.Y., firm found that 10.5 million Americans ages 6 or older had done high-impact at least once in 1995. More than 13.7 million had done low-impact, and 12.6 million had done step. High-impact requires more forceful movements and is harder on the bones and joints than low-impact. Step, in which participants step up and down on a low bench, has a foot in both camps; its adherents say it's less jarring to step than to jump through a high-impact aerobics class.

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