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• May 26, 2011

  Workout Rundown: Partner Prowlin’

  I’ve been having what may be the greatest week ever, and I’m loving my 12+ hour days out of the house.  I’m taking advantage of that  4 hour break I have between classes, and completed an upper body workout on Monday, played racquetball on Tuesday, and completed a lower body workout on Wednesday.  Wednesday was…

• May 24, 2011

  Who Can Swim?

  Yesterday was the first day of Summer I, and I had my first of two classes.  During my Health Promotion for Children and Adolescents class, the class went over an essay that was so powerful that I wanted to share it.  When my professor began teaching this course, she had a tattered photocopy, and retyped…

• May 23, 2011

  Every Chance You Get

  When I was in 6th grade, the world was supposed to end.  Across the world, people were searching for prophets and profits to understand how to avoid the impending doom.  At age twelve, I wasn’t exactly mature enough to understand the implications of the world ending, but I remember laughing with my family when we…

• May 18, 2011

  (Re)Creating My Daily Routine

  At 11:44am as I write this, I’m just eating breakfast.  Across the country, millions of college students, exhausted from the final push, are eating at the same time.  It’s likely that they rolled out of bed, opened some pop tarts, and wished they slept later.  What’s the reason that I’m eating so late?  Well, I…

• May 16, 2011

  Designing My Own Gym

  In the years since I’ve become a physical education major, I’ve spent hour after hour reading books and websites, listening to podcasts and interviews, traveling to seminars and conferences, and trying to learn as much as I possibly can about the human body.  The range of these resources varies tremendously, and I’ll turn to everything…