Focus on Fitness: Biking the Gables on Old Cutler Trail
Bored with that elliptical yet? Sick of the Stairmaster? There’s just only so much time you can spend on a treadmill before you start to feel like a hamster in a wheel. Take your workout outdoors and explore some of Coral Gables’ natural beauty on the Old Cutler Trail. The 11-mile paved path begins at...
Zumbathon to benefit Save the Children
The Zumba exercise craze not only tones muscles but also benefits charities. Lisa Dorfman, professor of kinesiology and sport sciences, helps her students organize a Zumbathon as part of her course General Nutrition for Health and Performance. This semester’s class chose to host a Zumbathon to raise funds for Save the Children, an organization dedicated...
Wellness Centers offers unique spin classes
If you find yourself roaming the Wellness Center and can’t seem to escape the thumping sounds of trance or hip-hop music, don’t be alarmed. There’s no hidden night club in the campus gym, but there is Club Norm, a studio cycling room nicknamed after Norman Parsons, the Wellness Center’s longtime director. It provides avid cyclists with an unusually...
Popular zumba workout mixes dance, muscular toning
Getting in shape is just a dance step away. Zumba is a trending workout routine that involves choreographed dance steps to international music. Its main goal is to help burn fat. Depending on various physical factors, such as sex and body weight, this can mean an average 400 to 600 calories per hour in class....
Photo Brief: Parkour
Joshua Romeo practices an art called free-running, which branches from the sport begun in France know as parkour. The objective of parkour is to cross a space strewn with obstacles in the fastest time, with as little effort as possible. In Free-running, trees and walls are used as springboards into flips and other acrobatic feats,...
Gym renovations still on schedule
Starting this November people can expect to enter the Wellness Center through an alternate entrance due to construction.
Dean Goldschmidt inspires med students with fitness regime
As an 18 year-old athlete, Pascal Goldschmidt, dean of the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine, was on Belgium's Junior National Field Hockey Team. Now, at 54, he is working just as hard and has a workout regimen that allows him to compete in marathons and triathlons while maintaining his professional life.
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