Adjusting to College Life While Still Getting Gainz.

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            So how can we balance both maintaining a healthy lifestyle while also going to school with assignments? Every individual is different, not everyone can use the same techniques to balance both but here are a few ways to manage one’s time better. Social lives take quite a cut during college and it’s good to remember that you cannot be everywhere at once so prioritizing what is more important is an extremely helpful way for someone to keep track of what needs to be taken care of first. Keeping track of exam dates, assignment due dates etc. can be ways to help manage your time better accordingly. Another good thing to remember is that in an age where college can be done from at-home OR in-school, there will be many distractions. College students must remember to stay focused and not let things such as cell phones take time away from getting some physical activity in for the day.

A research article on the relationship between cell phone use and sedentary activity reads, “On the other hand, many high frequency users (and some low frequency users) described how the ever-present cell phone disrupted their physical activity behavior and consumed their time with cellphone facilitated sedentary behaviors such as playing video games, surfing the internet, texting, checking social networking sites, and playing with new “applications”. Thus, cell phone use appears to have the ability to both facilitate and disrupt physical activity" (Lepp, p. 2). So, this shows that there is definitely an articulation between lack of physical activity and cell phone use, students must remember to stay focused on school so you can finish assignments as quickly as possible to have some extra time for the gym or any physical activity.