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3 Students choose intramurals
to stay in shape. Find out how to
participate.
O Eating healthy, a perfect
partner with exercise. Food
Services gives cafeteria guide
lines.
Q Students seek workout alter
natives to the Student Recreation
Center. Many chose to exercise at
home, at other area gyms or in
their apartment complex weight
rooms.
0 Ladies... check out these
female-only work out hot spots.
Why sweaty men and self-con
scious workouts may be a thing of
the past.
7 Find out what baseball play
ers do to keep fit during the off
season.
On the Cover
Cover: Photographer
Joshua Hobson zooms in
on the battie of the bulge,
with senior journalism
major and Battalion radio
producer Jacquelyn
Spruce as his model.
Left: Spruce shows how
she stays in shape by
maintaining her flexibility.
To our readers:
Everyone has New Year’s resolutions. One of the most common resolutions for Americans, college students included, is get-
titvg, in shape, especially for those planning spring break trips to the beach.
This magazine was produced to help students reach their fitness goals. As students in the Texas A&M Fall 2003 magazine edit
ing and production class, our goal was to provide information about the fitness and health services available in the Bryan-College
Station area.
Whether getting fit in 2004 is at the top of your list this year or not, we hope this magazine will help each reader lead a health
ier, more active life.
—Dallas Shipp
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T here is no real offseason for the Texas A&M
baseball team. Once the final out is recorded
and the national champion is crowned, train
ing begins for the next year.
Former Aggie pitcher Stephen Ponder said the
offseason can be the most important part of the
year.
“What an athlete does in the offseason is what
separates him or her from the rest of the competi
tion,” Ponder said. “You have to work harder, longer
and more diligently than your competitor, otherwise
you will get left in the dust.”
The Aggie baseball squad has an offseason that
lasts 14 weeks and is divided into three parts.
Due to NCAA regulations, a player can have no
more than two hours of instruction from a coach per
week during the first part of training, which lasts
three weeks. But the time is set up so that players
can still receive instmetion from the coaching staff
on a limited basis.
“You might meet with a coach for about 25 min
utes per day until your two hours are met,” said
Aggie shortstop Matt Alexander, a junior agricultur
al development major. “A lot of people think the off
season is when we mess around, but it is actually
very intense.”
After the first three weeks, the Aggies have a
four-week period full of intra-squad scrimmages.
Each scrimmage lasts about four hours and gives
the coaches time to stop and explain game situations
or teach fundamentals.
The third part of the baseball offseason, which
consists of two hours a day of weight training and
running, lasts six weeks and is considered the major
Pictured above:
Texas A&M
shortstop Matt
Alexander tries
to get an out on
a University of
Houston player
during the
February Astros
College Classic
at Minute Maid
Park in Houston.
focus of the offseason.
“The time we spent as a
team was usually from
about 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., con
ditioning and trying to get
better physically,” said sen
ior pitcher, Brian Shallock,
an agricultural development
major.
Weight training exercis
es are tailored to each play
er’s strength. Running con
sists of sprints and agility drills.
“Sometimes it’s hard to walk to your car after
practice,” Alexander said.
Throughout the offseason, the team has cool
down time on Wednesdays and weekends to
recover from the grueling training schedule.
Junior pitcher Matt Farnum said staying in
good shape physically is his main goal during
offseason.
“By the time we come back from Christmas
break I want to be in the best shape of my life,”
Famum said.
As January rolled around this year, so did the
Aggie baseball season. The team has started prac
ticing for opening day in mid-February, when off
season training pays off.
“During strenuous exercises at practice, the other
guys will definitely be able to tell if you kept up or
not over the break,” Alexander said. “The ones that
did will get to play more and the ones that didn't
will suffer.”
But keeping in shape doesn’t stop in the weight
room or on the field. Athletes have to eat better than
the average college student, though having access to
See Offseason on page 8