Fitness
  • 2 months 6 days ago

Take a load off your chest—and shoulders

Many who go to the gym consistently have a favourite area of their body they target most.Continue...
  • 3 months 3 weeks ago

Have a holly jolly—or jacked—Christmas

Nearing the holiday season, the gyms are packed. Pre-holiday break, but after exams, everyone has a load of free time and no excuse not to go to the gym. Post-holiday break, everyone is trying to work off the boatloads of holiday family dinners they just absorbed.Continue...
  • 4 months 3 weeks ago

Cardio can be fun—no treadmill required

Cardio can be a big ask for many people, considering we often associate it primarily with running.Continue...
  • 5 months 4 weeks ago

Start competing with yourself

I used to hate the way I looked.Continue...
  • 6 months 1 day ago

The perfect leg, back, and abs day

Before I started going to the gym, my biggest fear was that I’d embarrass myself—I really had no plan going into it. What do I do? How do I do it? Where do I go? Will the gym bros judge me?Continue...
  • 1 year 7 months ago

Athletics and Recreation increases outdoor capacity, plans to reopen indoor facilities

After a summer of gradual expansion, the use of outdoor facilities on campus has returned to near-normalcy, and gym-goers will soon be back at the ARC for the first time since March.Continue...
  • 3 years 12 months ago

Social media influencers set a dangerous precedent for healthy eating

The average Instagram athlete curates their daily posts like a diet: they’re around 34 per cent training tips, 19 per cent lengthy motivational posts, 47 per cent healthy recipes, and they show no sign of anything resembling real life.Continue...
  • 4 years 2 months ago

How to keep your fitness resolutions at Queen’s

One of the most popular New Year’s resolutions for students is exercise—and it can make January daunting for ARC first-timers and regulars, who can intimidate or irritate each other.Continue...
  • 4 years 6 months ago

ARC clothing policy values female appearance over comfort

Uneven enforcement of an unjustified rule restricting women’s comfort is disappointing—but not surprising.Continue...

Josh prepares for his first visit to the ARC.
  • 5 years 9 months ago

How to go to the gym and not be afraid of scary gym people

One of my goals when I came to Queen's was to get in better shape. I knew going into it that this was going be difficult to achieve, but what I didn’t know was that the most difficult part of my journey would simply be making it to the gym.Continue...

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