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Friday, October 10, 1986
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
triathlons. I've met a lot of
great people through that, a
lot of friends.
"I try to find time to go
out. It's hard. Competing
changed my lifestyle. I don't
stay up real late because I
can't. I just couldn't do what I
do on no sleep ...
"It was tough when I had
homework, but that was, of
course, eight months out of
the year, the school year. I
didn't take classes in the
summer, most of the time. A
couple of years I did."
She emphasizes that her
friends and family, including
her parents, Dr. and Mrs.
Martin Jacobs, and two older,
married brothers, are more
important than her competi-
tions. "All the stuff I do, I do
for fun . I make time for
my friends and I make time
for my family."
Her athletic career did
influence her studies, and
thereby influenced her pro-
fessional career choice: exer-
cise physiology. "When I de-
cided I wanted to get a mas-
ter's, I was getting more and
more involved in running and
kind of, along with that, you
become conscious of your diet.
It just all goes together,
without even trying. And I
thought exercise physiology
would be of interest to me
and applicable to my lifes-
tyle, definitely."
While athletics influenced
her education, her studies in
body motion eventually influ-
enced her athletic career,
even though she finds some
differences between, theory
and practice. "Things affect
different people differently.
Certain things that work for
me don't work for other
people. That's why you never
take a tailor-made training
program and just go out and
do it. There's nothing like
experience, learning from
what works for you and what
doesn't.
"I've learned as much from
the actual experience of
training and competing as I
have from the books. But it's
good to have that (book-
knowledge). It's good to
know."
She also believes that men- .
tal strength is as important
as physical ability and train-
ing. "That's number one,
there's no question. What you
do in an event is probably
it's over 50 percent mental.
You have to be physically
prepared and you have to
have the strength and. the
endurance ... You look at
the Olympics. Those profes-
sional athletes — "elite
athletes, I should say —
when it gets down to the line,
they're so perfectly-trained
and perfectly-tuned and the
one who wins, they win, I
the.y're
because
think,
stronger,
psychologically
mentally stronger ...
"I know, personally, you
can psych yourself out of
being able to even complete a
workout. Like some days ...
let's say you're gonna do a
workout with a buddy or
something, and you think,
`Oh, thank God,' like, espe-
cially a 22-mile run, or an
interval workout on the
track. I used to think that I
could never do either of those
by myself, that it would just
be too agonizing, and well,
I've had days where, you
know, I didn't have anyone to
do it with and I just had to
say to myself, 'Hey, you're
She also believes
that mental strength
is as important as
physical ability and
training.
gonna do it.' And all of a
sudden you realize that you
can do it."
Her new job, and new
career, is in fitness analysis
at Meadow Brook Institute.
Clients will range from
people with health problems
who need an exercise pro-
gram, to relatively healthy
people who want to be more
fit. "One of my goals now is
to get more involved in my
new career," she says, add-
ing, "I'm excited about it."
She leans forward as she
discusses her new career, ges-
turing animatedly as if to
demonstrate that she puts
the same energy into working
as she does into athletics. She
points out how the media is
saturated by fitness informa-
tion, and misinformation, and
how it "overwhelms" those
who want to improve their
fitness level. "That's where
we're needed so badly," she
says.
"Because if you're really
gonna achieve something on
a (fitness) program, no mat-
ter what your goal is, if your
goal is to lose weight, or to
gain weight, or gain muscle,
or gain flexibility, or get your
blood pressure under control,
no matter what it is you have
to_ have a method to what
you're doing. It's got to be
progressive . and it's got to be
laid out specifically for your
lifestyle, for the time that
you have available, for the
time that you're willing to de-
vote to it and depending on
what you want to achieve.
And it takes someone who
knows what they're doing to
lay that out."
So Jan Jacob's athletic
career has turned her profes-
sional career in a new direc-
tion. But how have athletics
changed her as a person? "I
feel very good about myself,
because of my accom-
plishments. They're fulfilling
to me because by setting
goals for myself I never feel
stagnant. I always feel like
I'm achieving things that I