Party Hopping and Body Rocking: The College Workout

The college years are said to be the best years of one’s life, but it can take a serious toll on one’s body. The college lifestyle typically consists of late nights, parties, and many empty Top Raman Noodle cups making a recipe for disaster to a growing body. Fear not, though, for there is a way to balance making college memories and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

For instance, regularly going to the gym may be difficult at first as you will have to manage your time with studying, working, and keeping up a social life, but by setting a few goals for yourself will help give you the motivation you need to work out. The most obvious and true goal you should have is to look good and be healthy for yourself, to be able to look at your reflection in the mirror and be proud of what you see. This alone is enough to give me the drive to hit the gym and has worked for the past 6 years. If looking good for yourself isn't enough to motivate you then go to the gym to look good for others as well. This may sound conceited , but let’s be honest here we all like to show off in some way or another and having a nice, tone figure is hard to miss, especially when those spring semester pool parties roll around.

Partying in college is nearly impossible to avoid, and even if you are responsible your body will still take a toll. Those late nights will tax your body and keep it from recovering the way it needs to, especially your brain which you use for the gratuitous amounts of studying you do, right? And those who like to party hardy will tax their bodies even worse. Rusty Moore has a few great tips in his article about this which you can view here. He advises eating sufficiently less during the day before a party so that the alcohol hits you faster which means, hopefully, less drinking and less carbs/calories as well as switching from alcohol to water 2 hours before going to bed which will kill the possibility of a hangover the next day which means you will have the energy and drive to hit the gym the following day.