The JC Life

At the University of Kentucky many students worry about how they look, a log with many other college aged students. What most people do at this age is eat poorly with poor eating habits and take in many empty calories from drinking alcohol. All of these things add to the freshman 15, which many students are worried about.  What many people worry about is how they look in the mirror and how other people see them. What many people try to fix their body image is one, they try to change their eating habits and to fix new habits on eating healthy. But, for many students eating healthy isn’t such a quick fix. What a lot of students have done and really enjoy doing is working at the Johnson Center. At Kentucky, the Johnson Center is a place where everyone can work on their fitness and improve what they don’t like. At the Johnson Center campus recreation is here to support student success in academic, personal, and social areas by providing programs, services, and facilities that are responsive to the physical, social, recreational, and lifelong educational needs of the campus community as they relate to health, fitness, and learning (Ron Lee) . At the Johnson Center there are so many ways that people can stay, from cardio, weight, cardio classes, and to racquetball. The Johnson Center basically as something for all of the UK and BCTC staff and students. The Johnson Center is place where everyone can work to  improve their body image. 

Johnson Center Survey

The Johnson Center is a place that everyone at Kentucky knows about or either attends. The survey was asked to students on the street between Rose Street and the library because of the high student traffic. For our documentary one of the surveys that we felt met all the needs of students, we came up with this question:

1.        Where do you live (Campus or OFF)?

a.        Campus

b.        North

c.        Central

d.        South

2.        How do you stay healthy?

3.        If you work out where?

4.        (Above) do you work on, Cardio, weights, or basketball/racquetball?

5.        Do you work out alone or with others?

These seemed like the basic questions that you could ask people about gym life and being a college student. The location that I choose to issue the survey gave me a verity of students.  But for most of my findings I found that more females work out with partners then men. Also, more males lift weights and play basketball then females, but females focus more on cardio and resistance. Both men and women lift weights, but women worry more about tone and men worry about size. Gym life is the same for both sexes, students want to stay fit, healthy, and improve their body image.  Many Kentucky students are worried about the freshman 15 and they use the Johnson Center to fight the pounds that they put on with their new eating habits. In the documentary presentation I will have passed the survey out at Commons and in the Whitehall Patterson area, which will give me a larger student body population and maybe different results.     

Blog Post: "Easier Said than Done"

One thing that I found very difficult about all the blog posts was actually doing them. Some blogs were easier to write then others. Frist things first, I had to had figure out what I was going to say and had to make sure that I met [nb1] the word count. This became very hard to do since my topic was the Johnson Center, I felt that you could only say so much about the Johnson Center. Many times I felt like I was saying the same things over and over again about the Johnson Center. As the semester carried on it become very hard to find new sources about the Johnson Center. I had to start finding sources that were about fitness or anything about health that was also related to the college age group. The Johnson Center is one of the smaller buildings on Kentucky’s campus, meaning it has a smaller impact on the campus. With this it makes it hard to find information using the databases that Kentucky has to offer. The blog post that had to deal with using a Kentucky database was more difficult because I wasn’t able to use google. The database blog post was a more stressful than the other ones because there isn’t information on the Johnson Center nor Bernard Johnson. Being an active gym person I felt that I knew everything that you could know about a recreational center. Over the semester I began learning new things about the Johnson Center which made some of the blog posts a little bit easier to write.

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How Do You Workout

 In the picture the girls are in the pool swimming, are they working out? There has been a change from the running on the treadmill and pushing weight traditional working out. There is nothing wrong with the traditional way to work out it still gets the job done but there are more new fun ways to stay fit. At the JC there are so many things to do to stay fit and heathy. One thing that many other recreational centers don’t have is a rock wall, the JC has one right square in the middle of the building. Also there are adventure trips where you can be taken to go rocking climbing for real (along with many other outdoor activities). At the JC you are able to take cardio classes (and other non-cardio classes) from cycling to hip hop dance. There are so many ways to stay fit without following the tradition. Many people play basketball to stay in shape, but have you ever played racquetball. On the other side of the basketball courts there are four racquetball rooms and it gets very intense and you really work up a sweat.  

So at the JC you are able to work on everything from lifting weights, using resistance bands, to running, or having a cardio class the JC has it. There is something at the JC for everyone to do to stay fit and in shape. Finding a certain work out might be one of the harder things that you’ll do, besides actually getting to the JC.

New Statesman, 3/22/2010, Vol. 139 Issue 4993, p61-61, 8/9p, 1 Color Photograph
Color Photograph; found on p61

Make a change fight the 15

Many young people today all have this one problem in common and it’s how they look at themselves in the mirror. Body image is what you the viewer sees when you look in the mirror and a lot of people don’t like what they see. College students are seen as at risk for becoming overweight (International Journal of Health, Wellness & Society) Also a report was done by International Journal of Health, Wellness & Society where they asked 210 (college) men and woman were they satisfied in their body. Most men were dissatisfied with their muscles and most women were dissatisfied with their midsection. What would you do to become more satisfied with your body, what did the rest of the people in the study do?

Make a change, many people in college fall into the freshman 15 which is where you gain and extra unwanted 15 pounds. Something easy to fight the freshman 15 and to fix a poor body image is to workout tone and shape your body. For men who are dissatisfied with their body image in terms of muscles are encouraged to go lift weights. At the JC there is a weight area where men (and women) can shape their bodies into something they want to see in the mirror. Also at the JC there are many areas and classes for women (and men) to work on their core and fix the midsection problems that they. Poor body image is something that college students think about, and at the JC you’re able to change your body image. 
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Adventure at the JC

The Johnson Center has many basic things to make it a nice recreational center. The JC comes with weights, cardio machines and classes, basketball and racquetball courts, and a track. A few things that make the JC different than other schools recreational facilities, one you’re allowed to have guest. Being able to have a guest doesn’t seem like a big deal to many but if you have a friend or family member in town they have the opportunity to work out if they want to. This helps many who don’t know the area that well or who don’t really have the means for transportation. Also a big program that the JC offers might not be at other schools, and it the Outdoor Pursuit Program. This program is here to provide outdoor recreation and education for the JC members. This program gives members the chance to try new things make new friends by doing fun activities off campus. These opportunities provided at UK are for the JC members and are human-powered. More information on how to get involved on going on a trip or planning one or any upcoming trips can be found by the rock wall. But some of the adventure tips that the JC has to offer are rock climbing, hiking, bouldering, and skiing along with many others. Going of these trips is very easy, to join these adventure trips all you’d have to do it fill out an application, pay the fee, and be reading when the bus comes.

Where are in the JC

In this photo, standing on the track next the ellipticals and over-looking both the basketball courts and weight area (behind me). These are some of the main areas in the JC many heated basketball games happen on the court. Most people that work on in the JC have specific things they work on, most of the females stay on the ellipticals, use the free weights on the second floor, and attend many of the cardio classes. On the other hand most males stay in the weight area or on the basketball. With this, many people either have work out partner or a small group, but many flock to the JC.

From basketball, weight lifting, and using an elliptical they are great ways to work out. With so many worried on how they look, being at the JC working in these areas or many other areas help us stay fit. A documentary would high light these positive areas and many other things the JC has a does for UK students.