UCSF Campus Life Services | Fitness & Recreation

NEW June-July Small Group Training Classes Proper Posture: June 22 - July 15 Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:00-7:00 pm (virtual class) Do you have aches and pains in the neck, shoulders, low back, hips or knees? Are you often feeling tired and have low energy? If you answered yes to any of the above, this eight-class series is for you. Posture is one of the easiest things to correct to dramatically improve your life. Learn which muscles are pulling you out of alignment and the bes...t exercises to improve your posture. Details: https://secure.touchnet.net/C20191_ustor/web/store_cat.jsp

A great 360 degree view of the Bakar Fitness rooftop. Really has all of us counting down to the reopening July 6th! Photo: Susan Merrell, Principal Photographer, and Sara Shaffer, User Experience Strategist, from the UCSF Office of Communications.

International Yoga Day - Hatha Yoga Virtual Class Mon, June 21, 2021 6:00 PM 7:00 PM PDT RSVP Here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/international-yoga-day-hatha-y... Join UCSF Fitness and Recreation for a Hatha Yoga class to celebrate International Yoga Day! In this Hatha/Vinyasa style class, the practice of linking breath with movement is used to enhance the benefits of traditional Hatha poses. Focus is placed on learning to balance strength and flexibility, as well as effort and surrender. The class will close with a mindful meditation. Suitable for all levels.

"Identical twins, with identical DNA, can react quite differently to workouts, studies show, as can people who are equally lean, obese or aerobically fit at the start of a new exercise program."

"In a survey of thousands of adults last summer, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine found that 20 percent of Americans said they had trouble sleeping because of the pandemic. But when the academy repeated its survey 10 months later, in March, those numbers rose dramatically."

Fitness Centers to Open For UCSF Community on Monday, Nov. 2!! Read more HERE: https://campuslifeservices.ucsf.edu//ucsf_fitness_centers_

Learn about our reopening and get your questions answered during our virtual town hall. Friday, Oct. 30th 5-5:30pm Zoom link HERE: https://ucsf.zoom.us/j/93175321672

"UC San Francisco has 11 specialties ranked in the top 10 in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Global Universities 2021 rankings."

"To take things a step further, studies show that plants in indoor spaces can significantly decrease the presence of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), man-made chemical gases that can have long-term repercussions on your health."

"The new findings suggest a need to look more carefully at why, despite considerable overall improvements in risk factors for heart disease in recent decades, it remains the nation’s leading killer."

"Here are four ways you may not realize that meditation is good for you."

"As a group, in fact, runners may be statistically less likely to become arthritic than nonrunners."

"If it hurts, you’re doing it wrong. So finding ways to make yourself feel better while partaking in exercise designed to make yourself feel better is absolutely fine."

The fitness centers will look a little different when you come back. But we are here to make sure you are safe and to answer any questions!

"It won’t even feel like you’re specifically targeting your abdominals, but you’ll still be engaging your core for abs-olutely abs-tonishing results (sorry, not sorry)."

"While it’s not always easy, it’s totally possible to lose fat and gain muscles at the same time. It just takes a little patience and planning. Trust us, we asked *a lot* of experts."

"The difference between losers, gainers and maintainers during the pandemic, experts say, is largely dependent on your mind-set: how you approach a new set of circumstances and cope with change."

We're working on getting some new photos and videos done so you know exactly what to expect when you come to the fitness center!

I will feel better for about five days and able to walk a mile or more and do yoga, then I’m flattened again for another five days, Ms. Londa told me. On-and-off like a switch, the same symptoms keep repeating..."