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Sneaky, cheap ways to keep fit on campus
Jessica Corey-Butler
Issue date: 10/5/06 Section: Campus News
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Leave the leotard, legwarmers and sweatbands at home. Here are five great ways to keep fit and healthy on campus that only require comfortable shoes and a bit of imagination. Because exercise doesn't have to be difficult, time consuming, or take you out of the way of your usual activities.
Step to it!! The main staircase going from the Swiss, all the way down to Pacific Avenue is a great workout in itself. But if you extend the staircase to include the walk across Pacific Ave., then go across the Bridge of Glass and down the Museum of Glass steps, you can double your fun.
Find a person who has a dog, and offer to get "Fido" a treat. Park near the Swiss (bonus points if you park on the hill above the Swiss!) walk briskly down to Urban Dogs, buy a puppy treat, and walk all the way up again. Conveniently forget that you also offered to buy catnip for a cat-owning friend, walk all the way down again, get said catnip for Fluffy, and then up again. Furry friends will love you, as will your lungs and legs.
Don't forget the phone. Tacoma Art Museum's Cell Phone Tour of Chihuly is a fun way to walk a similar route to the one just mentioned, but it contains the sort of interesting information that will either impress your friends, if they're cool, or lull them to sleep, if they're lame.
Start at the Tacoma Art Museum and get a map, but since you may have to pay admission there, it might be prudent to actually begin "the Walk" at Union Station. This workout is more of a stroll, since it requires you to stop from time to time, and listen. The map will take you over the Bridge of Glass, to familiar places (the University of Washington, Tacoma library) and possibly, will lead you places you can't go-if you're under 21 the Swiss stop won't be for you.
Talk to IAS. If you're not in the interdisciplinary arts and sciences program, do this anyway, just to see what those of us who are in it go through. Start at Metro Coffee, and warm up with a coffee as you read a newspaper. Set both items down, and walk down to Garretson Woodruff Pratt, then down the long hallway to a staircase just past the copy center. By this point, you should be in the West Coast Grocery Building. After the main, open staircase, go through the doors, and up three more levels. Grab a brochure, smile weakly at the receptionist, and go all the way back to Metro Coffee. Grab another coffee, and stretch while resting. This workout achieves best results when carrying a full book bag, heavy laptop and quart-sized bottle of water.
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