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Open Recreational Weight Room hours 10/14/13-10/20/13

Varsity weight room hours for this week

Below you will find the Athletic Weight Room Availability for general student body usage for this week; please note that these hours are determined by Athletic Weight Room Staff, not UMBC RAC...

Posted: October 15, 2013, 1:30 PM

7 Health Benefits of Meditation

Wellness Article of the Week: Food Matters

"It's a piece of advice yogis have given for thousands of years: take a deep breath and relax. Watch the tension melt from your muscles and all your niggling worries vanish. Somehow we all know...

Posted: October 15, 2013, 8:44 AM

The Simple Things You Should Be Doing Every Morning

Wellness Article of the Week: Huffington Post Healthy Living

"The alarm sounds and you're off: Onto checking emails, finding car keys and, if you're lucky, brushing your hair. The madness, the rush of it all -- it's got to stop. Adding intention into your...

Posted: October 8, 2013, 8:29 AM

Open Recreational Weight Room hours 10/7/13-10/13/13

Below you will find this weeks varsity weight room hours

The RAC will also have extended hours until 10pm, Monday-Thursday while renovations are being completed in October. The UMBC NCAA Division-I Athletics Program is welcoming students/faculty/staff...

Posted: October 7, 2013, 1:06 PM

Open Varisty Weight Room Hours 9/30/13-10/6/13

All UMBC Students, Faculty, Staff, and RAC Members: PLEASE PARDON OUR PROGRESS WHILE WE RENOVATE THE RAC WEIGHT ROOM! The UMBC NCAA Division-I Athletics Program is allowing...

Posted: October 3, 2013, 10:26 AM

New Group Fitness Equipment

Medicine Balls, Weights, Jump Ropes and Resistance Bands

The entire department of Group Fitness and Wellness would like to inform everyone that we have upgraded many components of our department within the past few weeks, and the Group Fitness Equipment...

Posted: October 2, 2013, 3:32 PM

October Skillsoft Topic of the Month

Performance Management Series

SkillSoft Topic of the Month: Performance Management Series This series of courses outlines the five phases of a performance management system: planning, monitoring, improving, reviewing, and...

Posted: September 30, 2013, 3:05 PM

What Happens to the Brain When You Meditate

Wellness Article of the Week: Life Hacker

"Ever since my dad tried to convince me to meditate when I was about 12, I’ve been fairly skeptical of this practice. It always seemed so vague and hard to understand that I just decided it wasn’t...

Posted: September 30, 2013, 8:29 AM

10 Simple Things You Can Do Today That Will Make You Happier

Wellness Article of the Week: Buffer Blog

Happiness is so interesting, because we all have different ideas about what it is and how to get it. It’s also no surprise that it’s the Nr.1 value for Buffer’s culture, if you see our slidedeck...

Posted: September 24, 2013, 8:25 AM

The Habits of Supremely Happy People

Wellness Article of the Week: Huffington Post

Martin Seligman, the father of positive psychology, theorizes that while 60 percent of happiness is determined by our genetics and environment, the remaining 40 percent is up to us. In his 2004...

Posted: September 17, 2013, 9:53 AM