CONFESSIONS
TIP JAR
BETTER YOU
KNOW-IT-ALL
Get a move on On a scale of 1 to 5, how active do you consider yourself ? Lazy 2.3% Kind of lazy 9.7% Eh
B Y A LY S S A G O L D M A N A N D J O E J A S I N S K I I L L U S T R AT I O N B Y E VA N M A N N W E I L E R
Subway guy Jared Fogle made a career of it: Change little things in your day and lead a healthier life. So follow the fit footsteps of the IU alumnus and make the small steps matter.
48.4% Active
Lazy 4.6% Kind of Lazy 13.4% Eh
57.8% Active 22.2% Very active 2%
Some of our favorite comments on this question: “Some are very active but others are basically rocks.” “You can’t live on campus without walking all the time. I don’t know how people manage to gain the freshman 15.”
Someone was confused by the question: “I guess they look good, but there are a lot of brats and I find that unattractive.”
8 VOLUME 4, ISSUE 1
Step Into Fitness encourages IU faculty and staff to move out of their offices and around campus. “People perceive that they don’t have the time to go for a walk,” says Megan Amadeo, who runs the program. The program tells participants to aim for 6,000 to 10,000 steps each day, equaling roughly three to five miles. More than half of American adults aren’t coming close to these numbers, and nearly 50 percent of people ages 12 to 21 are not “vigorously active,” according to the Surgeon General. One participant, James Clark, a chemistry laboratory coordinator, said the experience made him add activity into his life. For instance, if he had to give a colleague a message, he would walk over to his or her office instead of sending an e-mail. He also did simple tasks such as taking the stairs instead of the elevator, or walking to Kirkwood Avenue with his wife for lunch. Clark was motivated by the number his pedometer recorded. On average, Clark achieved 10,000 to 12,000 steps a day with some help from his soccer games. “It was curious to me, to see how many steps I took,” Clark says. “If I didn’t take a lot of steps, I felt like I did nothing, so I went to the gym or went for a run.” Step just a little more, Amadeo says. Ten minutes here, 10 minutes there. “How people utilize their time is a choice, not a limitation,” she says. “Making exercise a priority is key to maintaining a healthy lifestyle, even when life gets hectic.”
354 students surveyed
Within reason, do you take the stairs or the elevator?
ELEVATOR
On a scale of 1 to 5, how active do you think IU students are?
YOUR PROFESSORS WANT TO WALK IT OUT.
STAIRS
30.8% Very active 8.8%
92.9%
7.1%
random quote from our survey “I could probably walk up to the third floor of Ballantine, but it’s so much easier to go up the elevator and walk down a flight of stairs.”