to appeal to the opposite gender and some may do it for martial arts
said Radwany, an undecided major. Every time I am in here I see at least one big guy even on the slow shifts.
I once spotted for a guy who was benching twice what I weigh. He was really experienced and he only needed help on his sixth set. I had to apply extra pressure.
These regulars lift nearly every day.
Casey Osborne
a junior studying health services administration
goes to Ping five days a week and spends about an hour and a half there each time.,The weight room is the place where warriors are made.
Weight room warriors lift more than the average student in the Ping Recreation Center almost every day. They are the big guys who can be seen lifting heavy weights that most normal people would struggle with.
Freshmen Ping employee Rush Radwany said there are various reasons why these students spend several hours in the weight room.
People do it to get big for sports, to appeal to the opposite gender and some may do it for martial arts, said Radwany
an undecided major. Every time I am in here, I see at least one big guy, even on the slow shifts.
I once spotted for a guy who was benching twice what I weigh. He was really experienced and he only needed help on his sixth set. I had to apply extra pressure.
These regulars lift nearly every day.
Casey Osborne, a junior studying health services administration, goes to Ping five days a week and spends about an hour and a half there each time.
I lift because I do body building shows
Osborne said.
Osborne stays true to his body building ways even at the dinner table. His diet includes mostly high-protein, low-fat foods.
Lifting regularly since the eighth grade, Osborne can dead lift 503 pounds.
Justin Wolf, a junior studying exercise physiology offers different reasons why he spends five days a week and two hours at a time in the weight room.
Wolf has been strength training for six years. He is a strong curler who once maxed out with 165 pounds on the straight bar. He feels he can improve in some areas, particularly his shoulders and legs.
I lift because it goes along with my major
he said. Your outlook body wise is part of your resume.
It is good to stay in shape.
Junior Brett Hines is studying sports-management and works out five to six times a week for three hours at a time.
Hines said he plans to lift until he dies.
I like doing amateur body building, he said. I played football until winter of this year, but then switched focus to weight training.
But all that time in the weight room can make the workout fiends' friends wonder.
I think my friends don't want to do it, Osborne said. They think I am somewhat crazy.
It takes a lot of time to work out as much as these students do. Wolf offered some advice for anyone who wants to start lifting heavily.
Dedicate yourself, Wolf said. Don't give up, it's frustrating sometimes.
If you have questions
ask some who is more advanced.
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