The full week of sun, sunscreen, road trips and beaches is near. Students are preparing for spring break by getting into shape to achieve their “beach bod,” according to an informal survey conducted by JOUR 3190 last week.
Students prefer to exercise off campus instead of occupying the Ramsey Student Center the interviews revealed.
Of 12 students interviewed, five students are working out in preparation for spring break.
“I want to look really good in my bikini,” said sophomore Alexandria Purdue, who is from Conyers, Georgia.
Of 12 students, less than half said that they work out at Ramsey. The other interviewees expressed how inconvenient the crowds are and how parking is not free throughout the day.
Sophomore Tristan Pugh, an employee of the Ramsey Student Center, said, “It is very crowded during this time, most people are there preparing for spring break.”
Other students find the gyms at their apartment complexes sufficient enough. “I live at The Standard and they have an elliptical and treadmill in the gym so it is more convenient for me to just work out there,” said junior Kelly Higgins who is from Atlanta, Georgia.
Other students are not looking forward to physically get ready for spring break.
Junior Alexa Lee said, “I am not physically preparing for spring break because I am simply not going anywhere. I wish I was going somewhere.”
Some students said they decide to take it a little further and join places off campus to work out. Senior Savannah Kornder from Decatur, Georgia, does an hour and a half long class of hot yoga. “I leave class feeling extremely stretched and also super sweaty,” Kornder said.
Senior, Martha Nixon, has a membership to Pure Bare. “In the classes I take we do more strength exercises like lifting weights, pushups and squats,” Nixon said. Nixon stopped going to the Ramsey Student Center after freshman year. “Parking was too difficult,” Nixon said.
Most popular types of workout regimes were cardio and strength training, according to the surveyed group. Also among the group, the elliptical, weight lifting and treadmills were the most common ways of exercise.
Pugh’s favorite exercise is “anything, but cardio,” he said. “Cardio is the worst. Are you kidding?”
Cydney Karlins, a senior from Suwanee, Georgia, swims for exercise. “I grew up swimming and I am able to think things through unlike cardio where you are focused on running,” Karlins said.
Some students also gave various reasons for why they workout in general and not just in preparation for spring break. Some students exercise to stay in shape or for mental health reasons. Student Fikrte Adebe, who is from Tucker, Georgia said, “I like how it makes me feel rather than how I look.”
The most preferred time to exercise according to interviewees is the late afternoon or evening. Other obligations and extra curricular activities take up most of the students’ day.