Students searching for a new way to exercise are in luck this semester.
The Robert H. Ewalt Recreation Center will offer new classes during the spring semester to get students out of their work-out rut, and the classes will cost nothing during the trial week.
"The week is really just to try out different types of exercises that you wouldn't normally do," said Leslie Eyerly, the fitness and wellness coordinator at the center.
Some classes at the center are free, but others require a fee. She said from Jan. 11 to Jan. 17 the specialty classes that normally require a fee will be available to students at no charge.
There are more than a dozen specialty fitness classes offered, including swing dance, meditation, spin and yoga.
"Don't be afraid or intimidated to come for the first time," Eyerly said. "Just go try them out and find a wide variety of ways to exercise."
Belly dancing and X-Band pilates are two new classes the center will add to the spring semester schedule.
Arica Worthington, a senior from Houston, said she has been a pilates instructor for three years and will be teaching the X-Band pilates class this spring.
Besides providing a way for students to stay fit, Worthington said the group classes are a good way to meet other people who also have exercise goals.
"The classes are fun," the speech language and hearing science major said, "and they're not intimidating."
The X-Band pilates class will have basic mat pilates and use resistance tubes for a more vigorous work out, Worthington said. Speciality classes include most of the extra equipment and are geared toward more specific goals than the regular fitness classes.
A complete schedule of classes can be found on the center's Web site, www.depts.ttu.edu/recsports.
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