Exercise
All the hype about bungee fitness
January 8, 2024By: Hailey Miller, Staff Writer Bungee fitness is the latest fitness trend among fitness classes and social media users alike, and it’s sure to take your workout to the next level. Bungee fitness, for the most part, is exactly what it sounds like: taking the best of the fitness and bungee jumping worlds, and putting the two together. Of course, bungee fitness comes without the fear of major heights or plummeting off a platform with a mere wavering cord to keep you attached. The idea behind bungee fitness is that it’s a low-impact indoor workout in a group or class…
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Three physical activities to enjoy this winter season
November 28, 2023By: Saije Rusimovici, Staff Writer There’s a winter chill in the air, and it somehow seems like all of our favourite outdoor fitness activities are coming to an end. The outdoor pools are closed for the season, and the tennis…
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Fitness should be fueled by the desire for health, not beauty standards
March 2, 2023By: Sangwoong Choi, SFU Student Content warning: mentions of eating disorders. On Instagram and TikTok, workout videos are uploaded countless times a day. If you watch enough of them, you’ll likely feel guilty about your body image. It’s almost as…
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Fitness for first-timers
January 19, 2023By: Natalie Cooke, News Writer New year, new you! As you step into the gym this January, you’ll see many people at different points of their fitness journey: from old-timers, to people on day one, and those starting fresh on…
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Your weekly SFU Horoscopes: July 19–23
July 18, 2021By: Tiffany Chang, Peak Associate ARIES: After a great workout, you’ll (rightfully) choose a homemade smoothie over Tim Hortons. But I sense that your non-existent smoothie-making skills will result in some sort of spill. Some advice? All blenders have minds…
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Select Burnaby recreation facilities reopen with limited services
June 4, 2020Written by: Paige Riding, News Writer In the midst of a pandemic, finding the time and place to exercise may prove difficult. Until recently, almost all recreation establishments in Burnaby were closed due to COVID-19 restrictions. The SFU fitness facilities…
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SFU researchers on healthy ageing and effective wildlife conservation
April 4, 2018By: Nathaniel Tok, Peak Associate Super seniors are not couch potatoes The longest living elderly in Canada generally have parents who live longer than average, but according to Angela Brooks-Wilson, a SFU biomedical physiology and kinesiology professor and distinguished scientist at…
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Video games are a terrible alternative to exercise
January 25, 2016[dropcap]B[/dropcap]eginning next August, Norway’s Garnes High School will be offering students gaming classes in place of gym class, including only 90 minutes of exercise optimized for their favourite game. This is not the first time a school has made this…
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Boohoo, Woohoo
April 7, 2015[caption id="attachment_2061" align="alignnone" width="976"] Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons[/caption] Boohoo: Exercise Exercise? Ain’t nobody got time for that! You have last-minute essays and finals to procrastinate on. There is no time in your already busy schedule to go work out…
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