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Show { enemas October 1996. TA ER Until recently, I had paws every time I’ve run on banged a serious bone to pick with slickrock at Moab, so I was anxious to try them. chin pretty good on some of the crashes. So after a you people. All you think about You even is your own feet. spend _ hundreds, | thousands, of, up my ankles and for all the sports you do picked up some burrs on Running shoes, mountain | the ride, and the biggest bike bummer road shoes, hiking boots, snowboard climbing bike | shoes, ski| even| snowshoes. You want me | to join you on all these | ventures, but you large fitness dollars. This month we take a quick look at the— - Vectra On-Line 3800 Home Gym. While you won’t get it home for the price of a bike, it will sige ak the nature of your workout forever. The Vectra is the Rolls Bare: of home gyms. In any room, no matter how packed with fitness equipment, the Vectra is what catches your eye. The ergonomically designed Vectra for maximizing your workout time. Too many stack type home gyms have byzantine pulley system that remind you of the move Brazil. Twisting, pulling, pinching, raising, lowering, to I couldn’t scratch them to get them off! I’ve since gotten boots, | shoes, was gused to my HPD’s so I the point of absurd frustration. Vectra has redesigned the home. mi don’t crash all the time. make} They me go barefoot all the| time. I hear you all} kvetching about your! blisters and sprained | never come off if tightened properly. I still- prefer the traction of my |own paws for technical _stuff and high-speed cornering, but for long- ankles, and then you have | the gall to blame it on the | _ shoes. What do you think | ride: up Guardsman’s abuse. to. wouldn’t and back, JESSIE and almost drowned when & TRAINING PARTNER PHOTO BY ROXIE they filled up with water. I think the manufacturers_ was limping and slowing down; what tipped you off, — the bloody prints? Sure, Zola Budd ran barefoot, but she didn’t last long, did she? _ But I haven’t properly introduced myself. _My name is Jessie. ’'m a fourteen year-old golden retriever (that’s two to you _ people) and I’m just coming into. my athletic prime. People think I’m a puppy because I’m only sixty pounds and I’m _ always ricocheting around; that’s okay with me, it just gets me more food and attention. My owner does all kinds of sports, and although she’s always been oblivious to my sore feet she loves me and. always takes me along. She felt terrible after my pads got _torn up on that ride, so before she took me to Moab this few steps I felt like that time the frat guys fed me grain might look good alcohol punch; I kept falling down. Roxie and her friend killing laughed their asses off, which — -I hate, so I pulled my hind feet out of the shoes and sat . Golden down defiantly. them on again, cranking the Roxie this velcro put time straps really tight so I couldn’t get out. After a little while I started to get used to the size of the things, but I had to high-step to keep from falling, looking like Roxie does when she walks in swim fins. Of course they kept laughing at me; I just kept my chin up and followed my savoir (just next because_ I’m Lo don't haves sa » Hopefully more-owners will get | libido!). shoes sO for their dogs, we fashion At gain a little acceptance. $44.95, about for so little! Until they become a trend I you all could cut us Roxie, between her peals of some slack with these new shoes: we don’t they’re made Dog”) and in Salt Lake laughter, said I sounded like City.They looked pretty cool a galloping horse. Thanks a lot. The extra padding felt out of the box, purple hightops with velcro straps and artificial pads that supposedly look and function like my own. I’ve gotten sore nice, but the soles aren’t as ‘Tf you want to ~ gamble, go to Vegas. eleven bucks a shoe, every owner can afford them. Try finding people shoes loud: _ Performance ~ spayed doesn’t mean shoes pretty have. door shoes. They’re called Endo’s were a faire with Johnny, the Extreme “High on only exercise which was-not ideal, was the lat. pull while facing the machine. My knees kept hitting hard metal obstructions. This was my only complaint. The Vectra can be seen at Foothill Fitness. 2350 South - Foothill Drive. Call 484- 9489 to ask aay petom you —_ , Lipazanner Stallion, but it’s — guess I’ll get used to (for fiddling with other adjustments, but mostly with success. The ae They seemed kind of — ‘should streamline the shoes, “maybe make them out of big, but my owner (I'll call her Roxie,to protect her stretchy spandex so they privacy) assured me _ that don’t brush each other on “one size fit all.” On my first every stride; my new style along. I got so I could mun full speed, if I concentrated. The past week she got me some HPD I recommend swimming in them; I tried when you finally noticed after fifteen miles that I of 29 exercises in all. A typical four stack machine often has jpn one ¢ or two exercises per stack. Pay | The company claims you can complete an entire workout without ever reconfiguring the machine or adjusting cables. We were not able to accomplish that during our test session. While we did not play with the cables, we were constantly : arr that gym from the ground up. Every piece moved fluidly, and setting it for your body style-was far more intuitive than most. The Vectra comes with three weight stacks, and three _ separate weight stations. This means that with a modicum of cooperation, three people can work out at the same time. Each station is set up-to provide the maximum number of bio- mechanically correct exercises. Each station provides at least six separate legitimate exercises, with a minimum my feet feel like? How} about Line : When high end mountain bike prices are exceeding $3000, it comes time to look around at what else you can get for your twelve-mile ‘ride on - Poison Spider my paws felt great but the rest of me hurt like crazy. I dollars on specialty shoe shoes, Vectra 3800 On the laughter. Maybe laugh at you when you try to do things doggy-style! ~ grippy as my own pads and I lost traction on the steeper stuff and on sharp turns. I if you want the opportunity to own your own business in one of | the fastest-growing industries in the world, go to the phone. We _ require no capital investment’, no inventory, no delivery, no quo- tas and no experience. We provide the potential to earn long_ term, residual income and immediate cash bonuses. Just call our Independent Representative — more _information. : Call 801-553-1 834 *$56 fully-refundable deposit required. Page 11 INDRPRMORNT vepisiens erie TELECOMMUMICATIONS The Opportunity is Real. The Time is Now. |