exercise

With the start of the new year, it’s a great time to reflect on the past year and strive to make healthy improvements for yourself.

When studying for midterms it can be tempting to study in Main Stacks all day but we can't forget to take good care of ourselves. Here’s three easy things you can do to have a healthier midterms season. 

Moving to a new city, 350 miles away from home, made it necessary for me to develop healthy and proactive habits to relieve myself after a bad mental day. Although some of these were hard to adapt to and took a lot of self adjustment, they were essential to repair my relationship with myself.

Naturally, I was nervous. It wasn’t even until I got there that I really comprehended that it was a competition gym, a place where a decent amount of the regular attendees were very seriously into their sport. Many members spent hours there, training, every single day.

Butoh looked like an outlet to honestly express and release my unwanted attachment to the past. It also looked like a fun way to be the weirdo I naturally am.

If you're hesitant to go to a gym with limited equipment and space, here are some ways you can integrate exercise into your everyday life and stay fit!

Do you want to become “that girl?” The girl who has her life together and manages to stay productive throughout the day? The girl who prepares healthy meals with whole, unprocessed foods? The girl who moves her body at the gym, outdoors or on a yoga mat in her living room to achieve physical fitness? The girl who studies hard and takes typewriter-esque, color-coordinated notes to review at the end of each lecture? The girl who reads for pleasure and finishes a novel each week? The girl who never misses a step in her morning and nightly self-care routine — managing to always look put together in a chic outfit, with her skin glowing and hair voluminous? 

Here are three of the most valuable tips that personally helped me arrive at the healthy relationship I have with exercise today.

I’ve mostly forgotten about my New Year's resolutions, and you probably forgot yours too. Now's a good time to think about why you made them in the first place.

Tech culture creates the illusion that, like my devices and the software that I write, my body is just another efficiency process.