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Maynooths Biggest looser/Operation Transformation

  • 25-02-2011 7:11am
    #1
    Hairspray
    Closed Accounts Posts: 139 ✭✭


    Heya i just had an idea for an event/new soc.
    I was in the lab yesterday and a lot of girls in the lab and the surrounding lab were discusssing weightwatchers. They were all really into it and managed to get a fellow 4th year to go with them. Weighwatchers costs like 10 euro a pop and isnt very friendly on the student/masters/PhD pocket. It occured to me that there is a lot of interest in getting in shape/ learning how to eat healthy in a group environment. I know there are many great sheets of info about healthy eating etc but a lot of people would have reservations about doing stuff alone.

    I was thinking ( i know that there is heatlhy week etc) that there could be some sort of healthy living club. A student sliming club perhaps which would make use of the campus facilites, say a group of them gets together every week and goes to the aerobics and pump n tone classes together (these are very very good!!). A get fit club shall we say!! UCD have something similar i think. Now that the summer is getting closer i know a lot of girls/guysthat would be interested in doing something like that.

    Even if there was a once off article in the print, where someone tested out all the fitness related things around Maynooth (Kickboxing, Trampolining, Rugby Training, a session with a personal trainer at the gym)to say that which socs are best for which levels of fitness. Maynooth has a lot of great things to offer but not many people know about them.

    On that thougt, i have a great idea for a new column for the print! To help get socs more well known i think that each month perhaps a virgin to a certain soc should go to an event, then write a review to help promote certain societies and encourage others to go.

    Or a sort of Maynooth's biggest looser thing /operation transformation which could be done for a charity. People pay to enter it. I think something like this could generate a lot of interest. And if there was to be a column in the print (say an update or somehting on the people doing it) then the winner will get an award (a free locker in the gym for the rest of their years at nuim or something healthy).

    Its only an idea, what do people think?


Comments

  • #2
    daffodil14
    Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭daffodil14


    UCD have one and as far as i know its pretty popular.
    Here is a link http://www.ucd.ie/getingear/

    In regards to someone going to an event and reviewing it, I think its a really good idea. As you said it would promote the different activites that both clubs and societies do. As someone who is on a society committee I'd be more than supportive of this idea. :)


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