Volume 15, Number 17
February 24, 2009



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Are You Ready for the
“Spring Fitness Challenge” for 2009?

The Physical Education and Sports Center is organizing Bilkent's Annual Fitness Challenge! This year's "Spring Fitness Challenge" will run for five weeks, from March 9 to April 12, and will be held at the Student Dormitories Sports Hall. It is open to all students and academic staff.

Fitness activities will include:

- cycling (30 minutes)
- rowing (30 minutes)
- stepper (15 minutes) and
- cycling (15 minutes) together
- rowing (15 minutes) and
- cycling (15 minutes) together
- cross training (30 minutes)
- running on a treadmill (30 minutes)
- one set of strength training station exercises
- one step-aerobics session

The rules are as follows:

- Participants can do, at most, two different activities in one day.
- A participant will get 5 points for each activity, each day that it is done.
- Participants are to work out at least two times and, at most, five times
per week.
- Participants who have accumulated 120 points or more by the end of the challenge will receive special t-shirts.
- The three male and three female participants with the most points will receive medals.
- All participants will have a chance to win special gifts at the end of the challenge.

Registration continues until March 8. For more information, please call the Sports Center at ext. 1993 or 1325, or e-mail Ahsen Küçükdurmaz, Aerobic/Conditioning Coordinator, at ahsen@bilkent.edu.tr

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