Student Fitness

My name is Ryan, and I am currently a student at the Milwaukee School of Engineering in Wisconsin. I study architectural engineering, and I have no health or fitness related background. However, training and nutrition are two of the passions or hobbies that I have. I love to read and learn more about both topics.

I got interested in fitness during high school. I had an excellent Phy. Ed. teacher, who was also my basketball coach. He taught me so much about what was good and bad for my body, and how to make my body faster and stronger. He constantly pushed me in the weight room so that I could be a better basketball player. I realized that I absolutely loved training, and the nutrition aspect came in college, when I realized that I couldn’t eat pizza and Chinese every weekend.

Training and eating to better oneself is a great thing. I realized that not only can you make your body look, feel, and function better, you can improve in other areas of your life.

By: Joe Norton

Can you imagine not carrying around 60 pounds of extra fat?

Based on my own experience with losing weight, I’ve compiled pages upon pages of notes and useful tips for anyone looking to shed those extra pounds in college. Gaining those dreaded ‘freshman 15′ doesn’t have to happen to you! I lost 55 pounds during my freshman year alone, and I’m going to tell you how you can achieve similar results!

This site came to be after more than a years journey. What most know as the freshman 15, for me was the freshman 20. It hit me especially hard because I was a former high school athlete, and little did I know I had to account for this shift in my activity levels. I didn’t realize all the things in college that would be pressuring me to gain weight. Until it was too late…

One day I realized the horrible truth, I was fat. I didn’t know how it happen, one too many cheeseburgers with cheese fries, one too many beers, one too many pizzas at midnight? It was all of them. It was my semester long abandoment of any kind of nutrition regiment.

For the next year, I dedicated my time to researching and putting into action everything I learned. I studied Health, nutrition, fitness, lifting techniques, bodybuilding, powerlifting, running, much more.. and still continue to educate myself.

I managed to lose all the weight I had gained, and then some. I didn’t stop losing till I hit my ideal weight. I went from 235 to 180 in 6 months and felt amazing.

It has become my goal to teach what I have learned to others. To help those who fall victim to the college weight trap and to educate those entering college and prepare them.

Feel free to email me anytime: Joe@StudentFitness.org

Good Luck & Stay Motivated

By: Veljko Petranovic

Hello! My name is Veljko and I’m a health enthusiast. Actually, a health nut would be a more appropriate label for someone like myself. It started innocently enough. I was 16, and wanted to put on some muscle to impress the girls in High school. I remember benching 60 pounds which felt heavy as all Hell at the time. I remember celebrating when I got strong enough to do three (gasp!) whole pull ups. After a year or so, I discovered proper nutrition and realized that it put a whole new level of difficulty on my hobby. I was growing, though, and it was good. Most importantly, I was reading up on training and eating, which I still do.

It’s at places like StudentFitness.org where you can learn your ABCs, and later your XYZs, about living the fitness life. I have worked at gyms as a personal trainer, which taught me a lot, and I have even entered a bodybuilding competition and won second place as a junior lightweight in 2002. Currently, I am enrolled in the Sports Academy in Belgrade, and the learning process continues. My goals? Being in shape, remaining healthy and helping other people do the same.