Elizabethtown College Student Analysis

Point Loma Nazarene University (PLNU) has an established community living agreement, which directs all its members on how to carry themselves within the institution’s environment, as well as in the community. The institution’s mission is to offer higher education within a Christian community where character is modeled and transformed to express Christian faith. Students who join the institution are expected to maintain good conducts, which are guided by the Holy Spirit.

Main Points: Included in this speech will be a step by step guide on how to prioritize fitness among a world of other things in our lives that may seem vastly more important, on how to eat healthy even on a college kids budget, and how to take the work out of workout by making exercise more convenient and fun.

First of all, students do not have much knowledge about the different fitness components; they do not understand the relation between the fitness components and health. If students acquire the background knowledge about fitness, it could improve the class engagement and motivation, and increase the independent drive to exercise. Second barrier to students’ achievement is the lack of motivation to be active, and even more difficult, to specific fitness activities, such as sit-ups and push-ups. In today’s society, students spend more time sitting in front a screen and less time moving. Parent and school today have more responsibility making sure the children get enough physical activity. According to the New York Times (2016), “early school physical education (PE) programs can make a significant difference, and the earlier these routines are learned the more likely they will be carried forth into a healthy adulthood”. Another barrier that prevents students’ success is the loss of instructional time due to discipline problems. The classes are too big, with many diverse students with individual problems, which are difficult to address when these issues are from very different backgrounds. Finally, there is not enough support from home affecting not only physical education, but

“Being aware of the common exercise barriers among college-age students is critical to the understanding of the underlying reasons why some individuals are sedentary.” A college environment comes with its own unique challenges to maintaining a consistent exercise regime. There are multiple aspects of life that students are required to make time for, such as school, work, friends and family. The increasing pressure to excel academically can push students to neglect their physical fitness.

The college that I am going to is St. Petersburg college in Florida and they do not have a fitness center. My goal is to meet a few new friends and skate everyday in Florida. I will potentially join an intramural football league or basketball team. I will potentially go for a dip in my pool at least 3 times a week and maintain a steady schedule. The weather is about one hundred times better than Chicago so I will benefit by being outdoors more often. These opportunities will help me maintain a fit body.

When students add exercise to their life, they will develop a routine. If they commit, they will have different eating habits and will have to fit exercise into their schedule. Students will develop a meal plan, and an exercise routine, that fits their lifestyle. This will help them have a schedule for their everyday lives. If all students participated in the exercise, their lives would become more organized.

As a college student, my economic situation will change and I will need a job to support myself. This means however that I will have less free time to allocate to exercise so I will have to plan athletic activity into my schedule. My motivation may change because of my focus on college or my career. To stay motivated I can set short term fitness goals to encourage me to exercise daily. My accessibility to fitness resources will change when I go to college because I will no longer have access to my school gym and track and my local gym. I will have to find other places to exercise such as running at nearby parks and joining a new gym. My ability to participate will change because I will no longer be part of my school track team and will have to continue running on my

I drag myself to the gym several times a week. The drive to Healthbridge is agonizing because most of time, especially in bone chilling weather and when I’m working thirty hours a week on top of school, I rather be curled up in bed reading or catching up on my latest Netflix addiction Shameless. But exercising is important, and I try to squeeze in a good workout in between the several other things sucking up my time. I’m a biomedical science major; I understand the science behind why exercise is good for the body, but I also have the common sense to understand that the way physical education is taught is not intense enough for students to benefit. For example, today we pulled each other around the gym on towel. . .what are the students getting

-Most universities now have some form of a Campus gym. This allows you to find time to work out before, after or in between classes.

As we move into week two of college the reality of having to be almost fully independent is finally setting in. As my daily schedule in high school was the same day-to-day it made it easier to find time to work out and set a schedule. But now as my schedule is different daily I find that I can not work out at the same time everyday or even be able to every day. So for my Physical goal I would like to be able to keep in shape by attending the Rec Center at least five times a week in the hope of not gaining the freshman fifteen. I am going to achieve this goal with time management. If I set aside enough time to finish my assignments or at least start them the day they are assigned and do a little at a time I think it will be possible to have them done on time which should make it easier to at least find an hour five days a week to work out. Seeing now that I have to share a room with another person and live in a hall with many more my social-civic goal is to get to know the people on my floor and at least become friendly with

All college students have heard of the dreaded “freshman fifteen.” The majority of students see it as inevitability. This college curse is caused by a drastic change in lifestyle and eating habits. College students are more likely to eat unhealthy food and less likely to exercise. However, steps can be taken to avoid needless weight gain. Despite the hectic lifestyles of teens, they know that a balance of exercise and good nutrition is the key to health.

Going to university can be an incredibly exciting time for many young adults, but once these students arrive on campus, their level of physical activity takes a sharp downturn. Students are unmotivated, have no one to workout with, and barely know anything about the exercise culture around them. Studies show that this decrease in exercise leads to depression, poor grades, and mental health problems. A solution to this exercise epidemic is an all-inclusive workout app called Sweat Buddy.

College life is a time full of fun, friends, activities, classes, and homework. All of these activities however, add up to a busy life style. Being busy is not in itself harmful but when the busyness becomes so great that it turns into stress, problems start to arise. The formation of stress leads to many unhealthy trends, such as lack of sleep, loss of immunity to disease, and a change in personality traits. How then can stress in the busy lives of college students be reduced? The answer is a simple one that has long been known; exercise relieves stress. Colleges across the country need to implement a program of required exercise classes to promote the well being of students.

“Physical education hopes to accomplish, to engage all students, not just the athlete elite, in fun activities that will instill a lifelong commitment to fitness.” (Johnson, 264). Physical education in the classroom can be a vital steeping stone to the way that teenagers think about fitness. Lifelong fitness is something that everyone should be guaranteed, it mainly depends on the experience that a teenager has. Like many other subjects in school, the

When I came to college I never knew how difficult it would be to exercise on a regular basis. I was a high school athlete who had always found physical activity important and figured that would continue during my college career, but I was mistaken. I quickly became overwhelmed, and my time at the gym was quickly cut out of the schedule. I gained weight like most college students and looking back now I realized I had irregular eating habits, extreme levels of stress, and lack of sleep which is typical in most college students. When thinking of a personal self-care activity I found that exercise helped improve all of these problems in some way. When I realized exercise was the personal self-care