CANADIAN BARBELLE GLAMAZON SEEKS OLYMPIC GAMES VICTORY

By JIM MURRAY

ISN'T EASY to reconcile the thought of a 5'10", 160-

I pound shot putter with the photos of glamorous

schoolteacher Jackie MacDonald on these pages, but Barbelle MacDonald is exactly that. She ranks high among the best women shot putters and discus throwers in the world, and hopes to beat them all at the 1956 Olympiad in Melbourne, Australia.

Miss MacDonald is trained by progressive Canadian track and field coach Lloyd Percival, who has her following a weight training routine at Cooke's Physical Culture center in Toronto. Coach Percival believes the shapely schoolteacher can build up to 180 pounds in weight and that she will then be ready to toss the shot on even terms with Russia's husky entrants. (Incidentally, Percival doesn't believe the additional 20 pounds

will make Miss MacDonald any less cover-girlish, since barbells build solid, well-proportioned pounds.)

To increase strength for shot putting and discus throwing, Miss MacDonald trains 12 hours a week with barbells, dumbells and other gymnasium apparatus. Her exact weight training routine is as follows:

Warm-up with flexibility exercises (as practiced in acrobatic dancing), followed by repetitions in the two hands snatch, working for speed and explosiveness. Miss MacDonald does three or four repetitions and adds weight, usually reaching 100-110 pounds. She then does two sets of 8-10 presses behind neck with 65-70 pounds, and two sets of 8-10 regular presses with 80 pounds. While "resting" between sets she practices the rise-on(Continued on page 44)

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Jackie MacDonald is most outstanding as a shot putter, having recorded a best toss of 44' 10" with the 8-pound weight, but is also a competent discus thrower. Above she spins en route to sailing the platter past the 120-foot distance. At right Miss MacDonald is shown snatching 100 pounds, an exercise she does for speed and explosive power. Below she trains with 110 pounds in the supine press while preparing for the Pan American Games in Mexico City. Standing by is world heavyweight lifting champion Norbert Schemansky. (Photos at right and above by the Toronto STAR, courtesy Jim Dick)

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(Inset) No more attractive model could be found to display the British Empire Games uniform than Jackie MacDonald, schoolteacher and shot putting star from Toronto. One of Miss MacDonald's favorite exercises to improve her shot putting strength is the alternate press with dumbells. She uses 30-40 pound weights and does 12 repetitions with each arm. (Toronto STAR photos)

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STRENGTH AND HEALTH JULY, 1955