Fitness on the rise

Students go into detail on there fitness plans for the summer and the future

by Tim Wood Managing Editor

Over the past few years the fitness industry has boomed. With more and more people turning to fitness to better themselves for overall better health for themselves, or to get in better shape for the sport that they may play.

“Sports and playing soccer kind of brought me into working out and fitness, you know I wanted to feel strong and be fit for my sport,” senior Kate Widler said.

After his commitment to Baker university Senior Tucker Armstrong has been and will still be going down to Baker to do basketball conditioning and to also workout with the team and coaches.

“When I decided I wanted to play college basketball I knew I had to change my body for the sport… I’ll workout three times a week as far as weight lifting goes, and then I’ll have basketball workouts five days a week,” Armstrong said.

Junior Ashton Smith gives his explanation on why he started his workout and fitness journey.

“When I was a little kid I was always on the bigger side. So these past few years I was tired of being the bigger kid,I decided to make a change, to better my health, and fitness while also getting stronger,” Smith said.

Sophomore Noah Mabie shares his fitness plan, meal prep, and the type of training he will be doing over this next summer.

“I’ll probably do some weight training in the morning, Monday through Friday. Probably some cardio later in the day. For my diet I’ll try to keep it to a whole foods diet. I will keep working out five days a week with Saturday and Sunday as rest days because it’s always important to let your body recharge and refuel itself after like an hour and a half workout,” Mabie said.

Junior Logan Sell explains his fitness and the types of muscle group he works. Fast twitch muscles help for explosive movements for sports like baseball, wrestling and football.

“We workout a lot of explosive muscle/fast twitch muscles. I will be working out about six to seven times a week for wrestling . Even if I do take a rest day it won’t be a true rest day. I will do some type of cardio. Wrestling will take up about half of my day then soccer will take up the rest,” Sell said

Armstrong gives a description on the types of things he will work on for basketball, while at Baker University.

“You know obviously I work on my explosiveness. I will also work on my shooting and also do just some other basketball related stuff. Our lifts will be an hour and a half everyday, and then we will have team workouts which will be two and a half hours.” Armstrong said. e