To Your Health

Top 3 Fitness Myths Debunked

With the weight loss challenge 1/3 of the way completed, I couldn’t be prouder of our dedicated members who have participated. Many of you have started to lose weight during the first month. When setting out to achieve fitness goals including weight loss, it’s important to maximize workouts to ensure you are doing everything you can to transform your body. However, there is a lot of misinformation about working out and below are the top three workout myths.

1.) Lifting weights will make me “bulky.” A common misconception about weight training is that it will lead to a “bigger” physique. It is true that lifting weights, especially heavy ones will make you stronger and lead to muscle hypertrophy, but the true culprit of a “bulky physique” is fat accumulation. Excessive body fat is what makes men and women look bigger. It is important to note that any exercise regimen is only as good as the diet that goes along with it.

2.) Sticking to only cardio will make me lose weight. People perceive cardio as a panacea of their weight loss journey. However, you need to incorporate both cardio and strength training as part of your journey. Muscle doesn't burn fat directly, but having more muscle mass means you burn more calories at the same body weight than if you had less muscle mass. Muscle is metabolically active tissue that requires energy to maintain, whereas fat tissue is not.

3.) Ab workouts will give me a six pack. In order to get a ripped core, you need to have about 12% body fat, which only about 2% of the world’s population has. This requires a robust training and diet program. However, abdominal exercises have many benefits such as stability and balance, and the focus should not be on aesthetic purposes.

Best in health,

Peter Wendzinski Athletic Director

First Vessel of 2023 Boating Season Arrives in Harbor

Each spring the members who keep their boats docked in the GPYC Harbor vie for the special designation of first vessel in the harbor for the season. Harbormaster Alex Turner and his team oversee the arrival of vessels and determine which member’s boat receives the annual designation. Photos and a bottle of celebratory champagne are part of the annual ritual.

This year, member Roger P. Eger, Jr. arrived in the harbor on Thursday, March 30 at 5:15 p.m. with sailboat Door Prize (a 30’ Nonsuch) which was declared the first vessel of 2023. He was joined by Riley and Raphael Eger as they docked in Well 29 on South Wall. The hardiness of the captain and crew on Door Prize should be noted since the high temperature on March 30 was only forty seven degrees!

Roger has been a GPYC member since 1992. This is the first time his boat has been the season’s first vessel. When asked if he planned to achieve the first vessel designation he stated, “No, and I am actually a little disappointed with the Schaden brothers” whose vessels have been previous first arrivals. Now that his boat is in the harbor, Roger is looking forward to the boating season when he will gather with family and friends to race and sail the Great Lakes, where his favorite destination is the North Channel in Canada.

Congratulations to Roger and his crew. If you are walking around the docks this summer, stop by South Wall 29 to say hello.