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If you thought Arnold Schwarzenneger was all muscle and movies, this will be further proof that you are wrong. Concerned for the fitness and health of our youth, he travels the country to wake up the kids as well as school administrators to the sad fact that our youth are out of shape. He's a dynamite chairman for a very motivated President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. "Our chief task is to facilitate a working relationship among many health and exercise programs so that they complement one another in the communities they service," says Arnold.

Thus he comes to Indianapolis to give awards in a series of relays at the Fitness Farm of the Children's Better Health Institute.

Beginning at one o'clock on April 11, the Farm will come alive as children and their grandparents start pounding the 200-meter track in a fun relationship that may well become a precedent for future good times in joint exercising adventures.

There will be Time Prediction Races, cleverly contrived to get participants to practice ahead of time. They must announce their predicted time for mastering the mile, choosing to walk, fast walk, or run. The person or family that comes in closest to their predicted time is the Grand-Time winner.

Grandparents and children can walk it together, or parents with children, children alone, or the whole family. Each contender or family is given a number, and a computer keeps track of the time.

Dr. John Cates of the University of California, a long-time member of AAHPERD and a special advisor to the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, will be on hand to officiate at the Family Time Prediction Races on April 11. He was an early developer of Time Prediction Races.

Thanks to Arnold's personal daily fitness regimen, he will still have the stamina to participate in the gala Saturday Evening Ball. After all, his mother, Aurelia, is coming all the way from Graz, Austria, to be his partner. We expect there will also be some relays on the dance floor, as Arnold is a pretty popular fellow.

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