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he Bay Area Boys Clubhelped kids such asRichard Ross and ChrisLivingston stay off thestreets and on the basket-

ball courts when they were young— now these men are giving backto the community.

Ross created and founded AgapeYouth Basketball (AYB), a non-profit 501c organization, in 2005 inorder to provide skill and develop-ment training for Bakersfield-areakids.

Livingston came aboard a shorttime later. The organization placesan emphasis on the student-ath-lete, building character, accounta-bility and discipline in gettingthese players to the next level ofcompetition.

“We want them to develop andgrow and become better playersand better people,” Livingstonsaid. “We do that through basket-ball instruction and by finding thebest tournaments we can for ourteams and by getting them to com-pete hard, but the other stuff has togo along with it too.

“Sportsmanship and developingstrong character qualities is veryimportant.”

There are currently 65 boys andgirls in the program, ranging fromages 10 to 15, and playing on fiveteams: two 14 and under boysteams, a 15U boys team, a 12 Uboys team and a 14U girls team.

Most teams play from Marchthrough August.

Playing particularly well this sea-son is the AYB girls 14U team.

Under the guidance of coachBruce Godfrey, the Lady Warriorshave won nine of 13 games head-ing into the Porterville Blaze Spring

Showdown at Harmony MagnetAcademy.

A Lady Warriors Car WashFundraiser was also held — withproceeds going toward the Stan-ford University Tara Hoops Basket-ball Camp trip scheduled for June22-25.

Other camps include the L.A.Sparks Pre-Game Advantage Bas-ketball Mini-Camp July 3 and theUCLA Girls Basketball Camps July29-Aug. 1.

Earlier this season, the girls 14Uteam competed in the PortervilleBlaze Shoot Out March 20 at Har-mony Magnet Academy, theYosemite Spring Fling-Oakhurst atYosemite High School, the 13thannual Ventura Seaside Tourna-ment at Ventura High School, theTop Gun-Hanford Elite at LemoreHigh School, and the One DayShootout at Blair High School.

One of the boys 14U teams

recently won the HAX Focus Bas-ketball Tournament under theguidance of coach RobertRodriguez, and earlier, they cap-tured the title of the Arvin Christ-mas Tournament.

They also competed in the Acad-emic Basketball Association’s 10thAnnual Bring It On Classic on May15-16 at Cal State University,Dominguez Hills in Carson.

“One of the things we reallystress with the kids is the need toget an education,” Livingston said.“We’ve had kids who weren’t evengoing to their classes when theycame to us, and we’ve helped turntheir behavior around.”

Coaches, who volunteer theirtime to AYB also include KeithBlank, Greg McCall, Ed Parra, EdClarke and Rodriguez.

Those interested in learningmore about AYB may visit:www.aybbasketball.org.

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don’t want to offend anyone aboutperforming endurance exercise — itburns a ton of calories while yourdoing it and contributes to a longer,healthier life, no question — but I

have to tell you, it’s overrated as a tool forfat loss.

Doing 28,000 repetitions on the treadmilljust isn’t the most joint friendly way to abetter body either — resistance training is.

Endurance is only an option for fat loss,not a necessity, because the two most pow-erful drivers of fat loss are diet and anaero-bic exercise.

What is anaerobic exercise? For simplici-ty’s sake, it’s lifting heavy things, runningfast, jumping, climbing, pushing, pulling,fighting — all the things that were vital tothe survival of our species.

Being able to jog for an hour at a specifiedpercentage of your maximum heart wasn’t... er ... unless there was a super sale goingon someplace and the only way you couldget there was via foot!

According to Dr. Kenneth Cooper, steady-pace exercise was the key to everything.

In case you’re too young to remember, Dr.Kenneth Cooper was a former college trackathlete who coined the phrase “aerobics” —and we all know how popular that term hasbeen for about four decades.

I do — I taught those classes for 20 years!

The main problem with repetitive motionis that your body will make adaptations tobecome very efficient at the exercise you’redoing, but efficiency means you actuallyuse fewer calories to perform it.

Without getting too scientific, I want toclear a few things up.

If you compare thenumber of caloriesbeing burned duringendurance training,then endurance winshands down. But whatyou may not know isthat strength training(your anaerobic path-way energy systemused for short, explo-sive movements) willproduce an after burnthat endurance exer-cise cannot. Yourbody continues toburn fat calories after

the work out is over.But calories are not the only considera-

tion.Serious strength training also signals

your body to burn a HIGHER percentage offat calories for many hours after you leavethe gym. Fat oxidation occurs — what thismeans is that your body uses oxygen to

turn fat into energy, just as it does whenyou’re doing aerobic exercise!

Wanna burn more calories while yousleep? Well, strength training has also beenknown to increase your resting metabolicrate. Seems like more bang for your buck tome.

Also, did you know the body has to workharder to repair and rebuild the muscles

you tore down in the gym? That takes ener-gy. Energy IS calories.

Now, let’s add rebuilding the connectivetissue and the bones. And, since the mus-cle you’re adding is metabolically active tis-sue, whew, that total amount of caloriesbeing burned is steadily climbing.

See where I am going with all of this?To be fair, aerobic exercise is a good fat

loss tool. It’s just not the best.Combine a tough workout lifting

weights, using large muscle groups and thecaloric expenditure climbs.

Besides, who wants to put hours uponhours in on the treadmill? I don’t!

Not into lifting weights? Well, OK, try this.Do two minutes of endurance exercise onyour bike, followed by all-out, one-to-twominute bouts of hard cardio. This at leastmimics strength training in the form ofanaerobic capacity.

Shake up your workout — it will pushthat metabolism to another level.

Lift weights, preferably free weights,which use more muscle fiber thatmachines do. Work as hard as your able to.

If your ultimate goal is fat loss, then this isthe path to choose. It will also add to yourbalance, strengthen your core and makeyour muscles shapely.

Perform some metabolic mix up andwhat the body does afterward when it triesto recover will produce a fat-burningmachine.

Please consult a doctor before beginningany exercise program.

Questions, comments? Please email Gina,Body by Gina atFitness4life5959@yahoo.com.

Source — Lou Schuler author of “The NewRules Of Lifting For Women.”

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Petroleum wives doing their part tohelp finance local MS programs

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AYB girls under 14 basketball team.

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BY CHRISTINE GRONTKOWSKICommunity contributor

n the heels of World MSDay, the Association ofPetroleum Wives (APW) isdoing its part to bring usone step closer toward a

world free of multiple sclerosis(MS).

The Bakersfield nonprofit organ-ization for women with husbandsin (or retired from) the petroleumindustry presented the Kern Coun-ty office of the National MultipleSclerosis Society a check for$13,000 at a luncheon on May 25,one day before World MS Day.

The APW raised the funds over amatter of months during its signa-ture events.

The two biggest events were theCharity Sporting Clay Shoot held inApril at the Kern County Gun Cluband the Charity Bunco Night heldduring MS Awareness Week onMarch 11 at the Petroleum Club.

Every year, the APW choosesnonprofit organizations to benefitfrom its fundraisers; APW memberLynn Califf said, “I think this yearwas our best year ever.”

The money that will be donatedto the National MS Society will beused to help fund local programsand services for those peopleaffected by MS.

The check was presented toCommunity Development Manag-er Fotini Alfieris and SpecialEvents/Program staff memberChristine Grontkowski at the GuildHouse in Bakersfield.

The check presentation camejust one day before World MS Day,which was celebrated May 26.

The National MS Society isencouraging everyone to getinvolved in the global movementto help the 2.1 million people whohave been diagnosed worldwide.

You can register at:www.worldmsday.org, or if youwould like to make a donation, text“MSAWARE” to 20222, and $5 willgo to the National MS Society.

About Multiple SclerosisMultiple sclerosis interrupts the

flow of information between thebrain and the body and it stopspeople from moving.

Every hour in the United States,someone is newly diagnosed withMS, an unpredictable, often dis-abling disease of the central nerv-ous system.

Symptoms range from numb-ness and tingling to blindness andparalysis. The progress, severityand specific symptoms of MS inany one person cannot yet be pre-dicted, but advances in researchand treatment are moving us closerto a world free of MS.

Most people with MS are diag-nosed between the ages of 20 and50, with more than twice as many

women as men being diagnosedwith the disease. MS affects morethan 400,000 people in the U.S.,and 2.1 million worldwide.

About the National MultipleSclerosis Society

MS stops people from moving.The National MS Society exists tomake sure it doesn’t. We help eachperson address the challenges ofliving with MS.

In 2009 alone, through our homeoffice and 50-state network ofchapters, we devoted over $132million to programs that enhancedmore than one million lives.

To move us closer to a world freeof MS, the Society also investednearly $36 million to support 375research projects around theworld.

We are people who want to dosomething about MS NOW. Tolearn more about MS and the workof the National MS Society, visit:www.nationalMSsociety.org.

BY KATHY MILLERCommunity contributor

he campus community atCalifornia State University,Bakersfield, has beenwatching as a dragon isborn in the sculpture patio

of the art department.Internationally known Korean

artist Byoung-Tak Mun is creating adragon tail as the final installmentof his Nine Dragons series of sculp-tures, which inhabit different coun-tries around the world.

When completed, the dragon tailwill spiral more than 20 feet into theair.

Made of rebar and branches, thesculpture will give the perception a

dragon is buried with only its tailshowing.

“Dragons are very important inKorea and they symbolize natureand often the wrath of nature,” saidJoyce Kohl, interim director of theart department at CSUB, as sheintroduced the artist to a group ofstudents on May 18.

“Now visualize nine dragonsaround the world, furious aboutwhat man is doing to the earth, andburying their heads into the earth.”

Mun has been working on theproject for 14 years.

The other dragon tails are in Aus-tralia, Belgium, Italy, France, Ger-many, and Korea. This will be theonly one in the United States.

The sculptor knows just enoughEnglish to describe the materials heuses: iron, reeds, branches and vol-

canic rock. Each tail differs

slightly in material,but all take a simi-lar spiral shape.

When one stu-dent asked Munwhy he chose Bak-ersfield for his finalinstallment, he

looked at Kohl, who said, “I thinkwe chose him.”

Mun has worked on internationalsculpture symposiums with twoother artists whose works grace thegrounds of CSUB. Those artists had

been invited to campus in the pastas part of the art department’sannual Visiting Sculptor program.

Paid by a Pelletier grant, the visit-ing artists are chosen from a pool ofapplicants voted on by studentsand finally chosen by a campuscommittee.

This year, Mun made the cut.It is Mun’s first visit to the United

States. He is staying in the dormson campus for two weeks workingdaily on the sculpture.

The public is invited to watch theprocess, as well as donate branchesfor the project.

Kohl is still negotiating with cam-pus officials on the location forinstalling the tail when it is fin-

ished.Kohl and Mun say they hope the

location is peaceful and can beseen from a wide vantage point.

Many of the other dragon tails arein natural settings — in woods, ongrassy slopes, and near bodies ofwater.

While the CSUB campus is amore urban setting, it does offerseveral natural expanses as possi-bilities.

For more information about theVisiting Sculptor program, to viewthe work in progress or to donatebranches, please call Joyce Kohl,Interim Art Department Director, at655-3095.

TVisiting Korean artist creates a dragon tail from the ground up at Cal State Bakersfield

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GINAROLOWFitness columnist

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Christine Grontkowski, Lynn Califf and Kim Kotrla at the Association ofPetroleum Wives Charity Bunco Night. The association recently present-ed the National Multiple Sclerosis Society with a check for $13,000.

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Byoung-Tak Mun’s dragon tailsculpture located in Australia.

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