BANDSWIOATH GCES FOR V-BALL GLORY AGAIN

The Handsworth Royals senior girls AAA volleyball tearn is in Westoank this week for the B.C. chaninionship. The team is i the contest for a ninth straight year and is hoping for its third title. The Royals are seeded fourth in the 16-team event. See story on page 56.

improve aerobic

Capacity

AEROBIC capacity (read: fitness) has been explained in a nurnber of ways.

One thing it definitely ” isn’t, however, is the mea- surement of one’s ability to consume 2 specific and tasty chocolate bar.

Rather, it is the measure- ment of an individual’s capa- bility to exercise for a pro- longed period, using oxygen as the primary fuel source, without developing a signifi- cant increase in lactic acid. When a person goes into a lactic state (anacrobic) the

. result is muscle pain, fatigue . and the inability to continue at the same Icvel of exertion.

There is a multitude of ways to develop and improye aerobic capacity and three of the most common (and effective) are swimming, cycling and jogging.

As good as the above dis- ciplines are, same creatures don’t like going outside to breathe fresh air or get wet and they get their acrobic “fix” by working out on machines specitically designed for the purpose, either at home or at their local health club.

Some of the more cons- mon contraptions include upright and recumbent bicy- cles, cross-country ski machines and treadmills. Newer devices include Stairmasters as well as ellipti- cally engineered bikes, but the bottom line is that they can all de the job to a greater or lesser degree, depending on your needs and goals.

After you have picked your favourite piece of appa- ratus, you must decide how to get the best results. Most health clubs and gyms offer qualified staff to help get you started, but in the event that you don’t have that luxury there are a couple of points worth remembering.

First of ell, it’s really help- ful co pinpeint your individ- ual “aerobic zone.”

This can be simply estab-

- lished in approximate terms by taking your age, subtract

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WILL THEY USE A LABDER?

District of North Vancouver firefighters are hesting fire and police teams from around the Lower Mainland in a charity basketball tournament Friday and Saiurday at Capilano College SportsPiex. Action goes 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. Admission is by donation of a non-perishable food item. The event will aid the B.C. Professional Firefighters Summer Camp for Burn injured Kids and the Harvest Project Food Bank.

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CHRIS Burns of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats (left) and Caigary Stampeder Tony Martino chat at the Grey Cup opponenis’ last practice Saturday. Both were raised in Wes’ Vancouver. — ;

Boh Mackin News Reporter

CHRIS Burns finally played for the winning team at B.C. Place Stadium.

But superstition led the Hamilton Tiger-Cats’ offensive guard to ask his family to avoid attending Sunday’s 87th Grey Cup game.

Burns arranged. for his. North Vancouver parents and siblings to watch the fall classic trom the quieter confines of the Waterfront Centre Hotel instead of the din-filled dome.

“I had to bar them. from the game today,” Burns said after hoisting the Grey Cup in a post-game celebration. “In six years Pye played here, [ve never won.”

Burns, who grew up in West Vancouver, got to sip from Earl Grey’s mug for che first time after the Tiger-Cats defeated the Calgary Stampeders 32-21 before 45,128 fans. Burns and the Ti- Cats saw their Grey Cup dreams dashed a year earlier when Stampeder Mark McLoughlin kicked the game-winning fieid at the end of regulanon time for a 26-24 win.

“It’s absolutely unbelievable to win a championship with this team, plus it’s in my hometown.”

Burns and his finemares prevented the Stampeders from sacking quarterback Danny McManus, thus giving the game's most valuable player the time and space he needed to compiete 22 of 34 passes for 347 yards and two touchdowns.

“We didn’t run the ball as well as we would like to have early, but it worked cut in the end and now we're drinking from

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CHRIS (right) and Matt Burns celebrated with the Grey Cup Sunday.

the cup!”

On the other side of the ball, West Vancouver secondary grad Tony Martino was busy in a losing cause. The Stampeders had trouble sustaining drives into ‘“fi-Cat territory, so Martino was called upon to make 19 punts for a total 380 yards.

Burns’ Vancouver College high school teammate Vince Danielsen only managed five catches for 40 yards, including onc touchdown, for the Stampeders. “They wor it last year, it’s our turn this year,” Burns said. “i love him to death, but f don’t feel a bit sorry for him.” -

Burns, who turns 27 on Dec, 12, also played with Danielsen for the Stampeders in 1997 but was traded at the beginning

of the 1998 scason to Hamilton. He started his Canadian Football League career with =the ~— Saskatchewan Roughriders in 1994 after being drafted second overall, He was waded to the Ortawa Rough Riders where he played for two seasons until joining the Stamps as a free agent.

Burns played for Portland State University, an NCAA Division 1 school.

Without his family at the game, Burns did have one lucky charm: a Buzz Lightyear doll bearing the sumber 55 was attached to his locker. Ti-Cats’ defensive line coach Dennis McPhee gave it to him after a namber of players noticed Burns’ uncanny resemblance to the. spaceman from the animated Toy Story movies.

_ From the News’ sports

pages, this week in 1981; Hector Saddul’s 20-yard touchdown pass to Scott Mitchell helped give the Falvons a 26-0 win over the Patriots in Gordon Sturtridge League football finals. Tim O'Brien had a convert and touchdown of his own. Darrin White and Tom Locke also scored majors. In other divi- sional finals, the Rockies upset the unbeaten Huskies 26-6, the Lions bear the Browns 13- 6 and Chargers beat the Esks 12-0... Kypriaki had its seventh win of the season, a 4-0 shutout of Vancouver Dortmund at Kiimer Park. Ron Wilson had three goals while Bruce Beli registered his fourth shutout... The Capilano College women’s Blues had their third basketball win in as many games. The team led the ‘Totem Conference after a pair of weekend wins over Okanagan College (78-39 and 53-28). Joy Elliott had 34 points in the two games.