Organization Background
Ithaca College fitness center: a safe environment where students and faculty are given the opportunity to participate in group exercises. However, if one prefers to work out alone, they are provided with a wide range of fitness equipment that caters to their needs and desires. Services offered besides the basic exercise area consists of an aerobics room for group exercises such as yoga and zumba, a rock climbing wall, a mondo and wood floor gym (Ithaca College Fitness Center, n.d.).
IC’s fitness center hopes to achieve “... excellence by modeling integrity and professionalism that leads to a comprehensive educational experience, community pride, and personal well-being” (Reilley, 2016).
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Therefore, a fitness center that provides an inexpensive and convenient place to exercise is perfect for students who live on campus. As stress levels rise and students begin to binge eat, because that is the only way to stay warm in Ithaca, without having to bundle up in plethora of layers, many students may feel the need to work off all the calories. With the facility being in close proximity to most on campus housing, students are able to go at relatively reasonable times. Beside students, faculty whom have hours in between lectures are given the opportunity to work out on campus as …show more content…
This means that the funding is assembled through the college. As for our goal of spreading awareness, there are many collaborators within the school who are closely linked to the facility. Specifically, these include organizations, programs, and buildings like the Hill Center whom advertise the fitness center to exercise science students, A&E Center, PT students, The Ithacan and Intercom for advertising purposes, as well as IC social media, and other members who make up a secondary audience who have contributed to the publicization and success of the
A college campus is nothing without a gym. College sports, and cultural events take place in the T.M. Elmore Gym on Alabama A&M’s campus. This gym is located on the west side of A&M’s campus between Louis Crews stadium and Dr. Ernest L. Knight West Campus dorms. This building has made a large impact on the culture of the school considering that the gym is home to sports teams, classrooms, pep rallies, guest speakers and convocations.
Kilpatrick, Marcus, Edward Hebert, and John Bartholomew. "College Students' Motivation for Physical Activity: Differentiating Men's and Women's Motives for Sport Participation and Exercise ." Journal of American College Health 54 (2005): 92. Mintel . Web. 4 Dec. 2013.
The gym is a place where a typical American college student goes to work out their bodies. Based on the fact that I personally could be considered a gym rat, a stereotypical name for someone who spends a lot of time in the work out area. This is partially by choice being on the swim team requires the strength training equipment that is available to our disposal in the gym. While I have been to the gym many times I haven’t really taken the time to take in the other people around me. Within this ethnographic exercise I will explore the college gym norms within Roger Williams University.
Both Darian and Keara have been members for now a year. They had different perspectives on why they joined. Darian’s reason behind joining the club was to work out. Keara’s reason was to receive community service hours, get active, and work out. Darian felt that the community is not yet connected, but he does believe it will be soon. Their purpose as members of AMFC is to help people achieve their goals for fitness. Darian stated that transforming the campus is what motivates him to stay active in the group. Keara is motivated by getting people involved in American Muscle Fitness Club to live a healthier lifestyle. AMFC’s main goal is to promote health, fitness, and diversity. They strive to achieve their fitness goals and have fun with fitness as a family. American Muscle Fitness Club encourages others to participate in activities related to the group by working out as a fitness family to become a better version of yourself. These methods work because they do have people constantly wanting to
McGuire, T. (2012, October). Georgia department of education annual fitness assessment report. Retrieved from GaDOE: http://www.gadoe.org/Curriculum-Instruction-and-Assessment/Curriculum-and-Instruction/Documents/Georgia%20Annual%20Fitness%20Assessment%20Report%202012.pdf
Over the course of my observations of McComas Gym’s weight room, it was easy to figure out what type of audience would be interested in my essay. Based off this audience, I developed a persona who represents the weight room community by combining many of the characteristics I observed in individuals in the weight room. My developed persona is an ideal representative of an “insider” to the weight room community, as well as a representative of my essay’s audience.
...hat the facilities are at best decent and nothing relatively superior, is for the use of a gym that isn’t over crowded, and filled with like-minded individuals of the same age and race. My research methods such as an inductive method including participant-observation allowed me to observe the members and how they interacted amongst each other. Most of what I learned came from the women’s locker room, where many of them felt as ease as they discussed diets, workouts, and health issues. The one aspect that did change after using the facilities was that the price included within the membership was not for high end machines, or for state of the art locker rooms with luxurious amenities. The price is paid to be part of a network of older individuals, with like-minded ideas of staying fit for the sake of being healthy, and to work out in a crowd-free, judgment free area.
And to coach an intellectual development on a larger scale, inclusion of civil activity that generates a sense of the acceptance should absolutely be part of the overall theory of a good balanced workout program.
The gym is the world of gods and heroes, goddesses larger than life, a place of incantations where our bodies inflate and we shuffle off our out-of-gym bodies like discarded skins and walk about transformed. . . . Here, in this space, we begin to grow, to change. The transformation has begun, and our flawed humanity is falling off fast. We are picking up our shoulders, elevating our chins, shaking ugliness from our shoulders with a series of strokes, the glistening dumbbells, listening to our blood's rush. Our pasty misshapen bodies are developing clean lines. Our day's tribute of trials and heartaches is fading, for here, in this gym space, we become kings and queens. Larger, invincible, gods in ourselves. (Introduction, Bodymakers: A Cultural Anatomy of Women's Body Building)
"LA Fitness grew out of three clubs, each owned by one of the founders. In 1990 Fred Turock, Jeremy Taylor and David Turner decided to get together to jointly manage these clubs, with the aim of building up a network of gyms with first class facilities. In 1996 they created the LA Fitness brand and the following year they joined the top ten health and fitness club operators, catering to a wide variety of people of all shapes and sizes and with a huge range of goals. In 1999 the growth and success of the LA Fitness group led to a listing on the London Stock Exchange. In 2005 the team decided they needed more control - they wanted to make sure LA Fitness could continue to provide affordable membership and a fun environment for its growing band of members. LA Fitness now has more than 88 clubs and over a quarter of a million members all over the United Kingdom" (LA Fitness, 2007).
...I have come to the conclusion that the Boston College gym is primarily a place the improve or show of appearances in a sexualized manner for the most part, whether it be girls dressing in tight clothes, girls working out to look better in a bikini, guys lifting to build muscle, or guys attempting to look like they know what they are doing, all participants are partaking in this situation for the sake of getting noticed by others.
The gym is relatively square with widows covering half of the room. The other half of the room has a wall of mirrors with the last wall having a hallway to bathrooms as well as the fitness trainer’s office. On one of the window walls it has a row of cardio equipment (that has attached TV’s on them) facing the outside. In the back corner near the cardio equipment is a stretching and body exercise area (kettle bells, mats, exercise balls, medicine balls, and stepping stands). In the center are weight machines that range from leg, arm, and abdominal equipment. The wall with the mirrors contains the free weights and other bench press and weight machines. Overall...
that 81% thought that the price of the gym was fair for the quality of
Strategy: I contacted Jillian Michael to discuss how I want the activity to be done and whom it is for. I will inform her on my objective and goals for this activity and tell her the population of interest. We then will discuss the needs of the community regarding exercise and healthy eating and the best way to incorporate them in a college student’s life.
Designing a Fitness Program When designing a fitness programme it is very important to remember that the traing period and structure must be split up into three main sections. Warm up, Conditioning and warm down. Warming up is a must for all training programmes as it reduces the risk of injury this can come in the form of star jumps jogging and flexing. Warming up also increases muscle contraction and it also stimulates the cardio activity (heart rate). The warm up may also increase the mental preparation of the mind Conditioning Conditioning is the main bulk of the activity that is going to build your muscle strength etc.