Avoid the Freshmen 15!

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Avoid the Freshmen 15!

• Submitted by Nina
• Nova Southeastern University

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Regular Exerciserunning, swimming, cycling

• Burn fat and calories
• Increase the metabolism
• Boost your energy
• Improve your immune system
• Build a healthy body for yourself 20 years down
  the road
• Helps tone the muscles

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What to avoid in college

• Too much bread
• Try to consume wheat bread rather than white.
• SODA!
• Abstain from soda for 2 weeks and see how you
  feel!
• Eating late at night
• Its harder for your body to digest food when
  youre sleeping horizontally ? laws of gravity!
• Excess Alcohol
• Dont drink pointless calories.

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How to survive with Shark Dining

• Instead of chicken fingers get grilled chicken
  without the bread
• Instead of lemonade, get an iced water
• Choose egg whites
• A chicken salad over Papa Johns Pizza
• Reduce your Starbucks trips and visit Juice
  Blendz
• Remember FRIED lt GRILLED!!!

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Staying Fit

• Fitness classes free
• 1 hr of spinning 700 calories
• 1 hour of facebook procrastination
• Jog for twenty minutes 3 times a week
• One lap around the UC 0.5 mile
• Play basketball with your friends
• Lift weights to tone your muscles
• Know what youre doing first!
• The RecPlex offers a free fitness assessment!

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AB Exercises!

• Crunches
• Keep your elbows close to the ground your chin
  pointed upwards
• Bicycle
• Captains Chair Leg Raise
• Plank on Elbow Knees
• Keep a flat back, knees above the ground, and
  hold for 20-60 seconds

http//www.fullfitness.net/exercises/abs
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Why Exercise?

• Youre more likely to have a healthier life style
• Your behaviors may improve
• You may start to perform better in school
• Youll have a positive attitude
• Youll feel better about yourself
• Youll have a healthier body in 20 years
• Youll motivate others to do the same