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NEWS / THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2010 THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
Keep your body guessing with total resistance training
A new way to work out is now offered at the rec center
BY JUSTINE PATTON
jpatton@kansan.com
Students interested in mixing up their workout schedules now have a new option at the Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center.
This type of training, called TRX training, is what personal trainer Laura Webb describes as "the hot new thing" in the world of fitness. It was invented by a Navy S.E.A.L. and was featured on NBC's "The Biggest Loser" in 2008.
TRX training, or total resistance exercise suspension training, is simply suspension training using your body weight, Webb said.
A team of personal trainers at the recreation center held a workshop Wednesday night to teach students and faculty about the new equipment.
Robert Czyz, a junior from Chicago, said he attended the workshop because he was interested in mixing up his workout routine.
The TRX trainer itself is a simple piece of equipment. It consists of about 10 feet of nylon strapping, a pair of loops for the hands or feet, and two buckles. However, the exercises students and faculty can perform on this equipment are virtually endless. Webb said the flexibility of the TRX trainer
can make exercises more beneficial than those performed on a machine.
cular workout, strength training, stretching or a combination of all three.
"With a lot of machines in the gym, you don't use those movements in real life," Webb said. "In
Alex Miller, another personal trainer at the recreation center, said he sometimes uses TRX training in his workouts to warm up or cool down, but also to get a full body workout when he is in a
"I think our bodies respond best when we're mixing things up and constantly keeping it guessing."
LAURA WEBB personal trainer
everyday life, your muscles are all acting together, so that's why TRX training is really good, because you're using all those muscles in continuation."
hurry.
Tristan Mccaffery, a senior from Lawrence, uses the TRX (total resistance training) equipment Wednesday night at the TRX workshop at the Ambler Student Recreation Center. The workshop was held to give students a chance to learn about the new TRX equipment available for students to use. TRX is a new fitness technique that makes for a quick way to get a good workout.
Webb said the suspension training could be used for a cardiovas
"You can get every single body part worked out in a short amount of time — if you're really booking it, in about 10 minutes," Miller said.
"But you might be dead at that point," he added.
Webb said people of all fitness levels can benefit from
TRX training, but she recommends that individuals also add other types of exercises besides TRX training to their workout schedules.
"I think our bodies respond
best when we're mixing things up
and constantly keeping it guessing," Webb said. "TRX is just another option now available to KU students."
Students interested in using TRX trainers can now check them out when they visit the recreation center. They are free to check out
but must remain inside the recreation center while in use.
Edited by Kelsey Nill
Third-straight year of frozen salaries looms for staff
BY STEPHEN GRAY sgray@kansan.com
Having dealt with approximately $100 million in cuts to state funding over the past two years, Kansas public universities are now faced with the possibility of an unprecedented third-straight year of frozen salaries for faculty and staff.
Gray-Little met with the
As a result of this worsening trend, Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little has pledged to start pushing for pay increases on next year's budget.
leaders of the five other Kansas public institutions two weeks ago in Topeka and agreed that a plan needed to be developed to determine funding sources for such salary increases.
Jack Martin, deputy director for University communications, said administrators hoped the funding for these raises could come from a new Board of Regents education plan that will come before the Kansas Legislature in January.
"We believe there needs to be a constant state investment in higher education if Kansas is to get out of the recession;" Martin said.
University leaders, however, also discussed the possibility that student tuition increases could be tied to salary raises.
Gary Sherrer, chairman of the Board of Regents, acknowledged that the funding burden has shifted over to students through tuition in recent years and that it will continue if the state doesn't hold up its responsibility to higher education.
"If the state continues to cut budgets, we only have one choice, and at some point we can't continue to ask the students to pay for the majority of the operating
costs," Sherrer said.
Lisa Wolf Wendel, professor of educational leadership and former faculty senate president, said as insurance premiums and other costs have risen with the static salaries, it has created the equivalent of a pay cut for faculty and staff.
"With the expenses, in effect, faculty and staff are essentially paid less than they were two years ago. That puts our university at a competitive disadvantage," she said.
Wolf Wendel said while the economy is down all over the country, the lack of pay increases
could lead to potential problems with retaining and recruiting faculty. It also doesn't help that the average faculty salary at the University is less than many other comparative institutions, she said.
"Money isn't the only reason that someone would leave, but if you're not competitive, it makes going elsewhere more of a viable option," Wolf-Wendel said.
Martin noted that raising faculty and staff salaries next year could only benefit the education process, both in terms of maintaining unity and morale in staff programs, and by maintaining the student
opportunity to learn from faculty at the top of their field.
"We want KU students to have the opportunity to learn from the best, and that can't help if other faculty members are being recruited away by other institutions," Martin said.
Specific details on potential salary increases and their possible sources of funding will be determined by the Legislature in January and when the universities bring their budgets to the Regents next spring.
— Edited by Tim Dwyer
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