NGU Skyliner

Jessicah Peters
Staff Writer

Photo by Jereme Green / The Skyliner

As the spring semester has started, the Younts Health and Wellness Center is trying to become a more facilitated and better equipped gym to offer not only more to the students but also to the faculty and staff.

The fitness center has a good range of equipment including treadmills, weights and machines to work your abdominals. Soon more equipment will be added, such as some new attachments for cable machines, jump ropes, new medicine balls and even new yoga mats for stretching.

“Right now we don’t have any classes scheduled but are working on it,” Steven Pearce, head of Younts Health and Wellness Center, said.
The class he is currently working to set up is an aerobics class that will meet two times per week, but he is trying to figure out a schedule with the instructor.

In addition to the new equipment coming, and new classes starting, Younts Fitness Center is going to start an eight week Fitness Challenge which will be open to all faculty, staff and students here at NGU. This challenge is scheduled to begin on Monday, Feb. 9. Participants will form a team of four and make an account of all the exercise they are involved in. Also included in this challenge is an individual weight loss challenge. The prize for the winning team is four free 30 minute massages from a local massage therapist in Greenville. More information about the challenge can be found in the Younts Fitness Center.

Ladies, there is now a special time just for you to work out. Because it is a proven fact that most females do not feel comfortable exercising in front of males, Younts offers Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11:00 a.m. to 1 p.m. a time just for the women to exercise.

“The gym has improved a lot since it was a little hole-in-the-wall room before last year. Because I live in Crusader Courts, it is not a far trip, and the hours are generally good as well,” Steven Carter, sophomore MAJOR, said.

However, Carter mentioned that the fitness center could improve its maintenance on the machines. “If something breaks, it stays broken for a good amount of time and no one can use it,” Carter said.

“Younts Fitness Center is a great asset,” Pearce said. “I hope more people take advantage of it.”

Tags: Spring 2009, Vol. 108 - Issue 2

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