Category: Sport

The Best Ways to Engage with Flatmates

26th November 2020 / / 0 Comments

Post contributed by Lauren Hammond, Health & Fitness Coach, King’s Sport

If 2020 has taught us one thing, it’s that connecting with our friends and family are key to maintaining a happy mind!

With limited activities currently being allowed in the UK, it’s time to get creative with building new friendships and maintaining your old ones.

Here are just a few ideas for how to safely socialise:

  • Shared meals: Taco Tuesdays and Sunday roasts are the first that spring to mind, but you can get creative and maybe do a pot luck (everyone cooks or brings one thing to make a meal) , themed nights, like Thanksgiving, or a new country each week, or even get together and have breakfast for dinner
  • Sharing ways to keep busy: Create a list of must see Netflix shows, podcasts, or new albums released on Spotify; share great reads either digitally or hardcopies.
  • Watch parties: Stream a movie together over a hot chocolate!
  • Games night: Games night doesn’t have to involved purchasing games (although there are many great ones to choose from) you can get creative and make your own! A simple deck of cards can produce many hours of fun!
  • Keep moving, stay positive: Encourage flatmates to keep active or join you for the Kings Sport Classes (a bit of friendly competition is always fun) or attend one of our many resilife events!

A review of Evening Yoga in Julian Markham

16th October 2020 / / 0 Comments

 

 

 

 

Post contributed by CF Jacky

Did you know that you get a free King’s Sports BeActive membership when you live in King’s residences?

BeActive has over 50 classes a

week from football to Pilates. These events take place in your residences or campus so that they are very accessible to students. There are also Move Your Mind Online events so you can join in even if you are self-isolating!

I participated in a yoga session in the residence I live in (JM). Yoga is a very relaxing thing to do when you’re stressed because of university or just life in general, and it’s amazing t

o have someone teach you how to do it properly. Yoga is an ancient form of exercise, which is recommended by many healthcare services to promote wellbeing, both for the mind and body. You don’t have to have had any practice doing yoga before as the instructors will help teach you as a beginner, or if you are more advanced they will give you modifications so you can keep challenging yourself.

Another perk of the session was that I got the opportunity to meet people responsibly, while following the social distancing rules because of COVID-19. I’d recommend the BeActive program to all students and to really make the most out of it because it’s fun, easy, and free!

To activate your free account please click HERE and entering your King’s email address. After your account is activated you can access the Beactive, Move Your Mind Online and Resilife timetables and book spaces on the events.

 

CF Jiashu’s Restaurants of the Month

2nd October 2020 / / 0 Comments

 

  1. Flat iron
    • A steak house that actually tastes alright while being economically viable, and eh, you don’t see that every day in London. Or, as they say it themselves, great steak, at affordable prices.
    • A mouth-watering flat iron steak served with house salad for £10, accompanied by a choice of sides like dripping cooked chips, creamed spinach and market greens. This easily makes up for the fact that you can’t reserve a table, instead they have a nifty way that involves texting when there is a space available.
    • They also offer free icecream! After your steak, you will merrily receive a Mr. Whippy-style caramel mousse in a mug, with rock salt crystals to scatter according to your whim.
    • They have many restaurants within the reach of central London, located in London bridge, Covent Garden, Hackney and Spitalfields.

  1. The breakfast club
    • This is probably London’s most popular all-day breakfast and brunch place. It’s been called many names, the ‘London must-do’, the ‘most amazing all-day breakfast’. And it’s not just the food that’s perfect. It’s also bright, colourful, saturated with cultural references and intriguing ornaments and memorabilia. If you are into the styles of the 1980s, or just wish to experience some pop culture, here would be the perfect place to walk down.
    • Price range quite affordable, £12.50 for full Monty, which is one of the more expensive dishes.
    • They have an all-day breakfast menu, including the classics, such as Eggs Benedict (£9.50), Berry pancakes (£9.50) and Avocado on Rye (£7.00)
    • I recommend the All American (pancake stack, bacon, sausage, crispy homestyle potatoes, fried eggs and maple syrup); as well as the Full Monty, a deviation from full English (bacon, sausage, crispy homestyle potatoes, garlic mushrooms, hash brown, black pudding, beans, tomato, fried eggs and toast).
    • These cafes are easy to find. They can be found all around London, Battersea, London Bridge, Soho and Spitalfields.

Try It… NHS 10 Minute Work-Outs

31st January 2019 / / 0 Comments

10-minute workouts

In between studies, work and a buzzing social life it can be hard to schedule in exercise but it is a vital part of living a healthy balanced life.  We’ve found four 10 minute exercises you can squeeze into your day to get your heart pumping and stretch and tone your body.
6-minute pre-exercise warm-up

Marching on the spot

Warm up and stretch properly before exercising to prevent injury and make your workouts more effective. This warm-up and stretching routine should take about 6 minutes.

10-minute cardio workout

Tap back

Exercise your heart and lungs with this 10-minute cardio workout routine for aerobic fitness. If you have a skipping rope, replace any of the exercises with a 60-second burst of skipping.

10-minute toning workout

Press up

Firm up your bum, abs, legs and arms with this 10-minute toning workout. You will need a resistance band for some of the exercises but if you don’t have one, you can use water bottles.

10-minute legs, bums and tums workout

Bridge stretch

Tone up, firm up and burn fat from your tummy, hips, thighs and bottom with this 10-minute workout for legs, bums and tums.

10-minute abs workout

Stomach crunch

Tone your tummy muscles and get a flat stomach with this 10-minute abs workout. These abdominal exercises strengthen the muscles around your trunk.

5-minute cool-down routine

Inner thigh stretch

Stretch and cool down after exercising to relax, improve flexibility and slow your heart rate. This cool-down routine should take about 5 minutes.

 

You can find more 10-minute workouts on the website.

NHS Workouts

 

Were Listening To…Your Favourite Work Out Songs

29th January 2019 / / 0 Comments

 

 

Attempting a gruelling circuit of burpees, squats and weightlifting is hard enough much less trying to attempt it with the wrong songs playing. Your workout playlist can make or break a session.  Doing 50 push-ups to the sweet sounds of Sam Smith might not see you through to the end!

We took to Instagram to find out your favourite work out songs and we got some great suggestions! Check some of them out below.

 

 

      

   

 

 

Tell us what’s on your workout playlist in the comments below. We definitely will be adding some of these tracks to ours.

Words By Keira ResiLife

 

 

This Girl Can Week

20th November 2017 / / 0 Comments

20-24 November 2017

This Girl Can is a celebration of active women who are doing their thing no matter how well they do it, how they look or even how red their face gets!

To celebrate active women, King’s Sport and KCLSU are coming together to deliver a week of amazing free and fun sports sessions and events.

Click on the link for all event details and get involved and try something new!

 This Girl Can Week

Share your ‘This Girl Can’ experience, stories and pictures on social media throughout the week by tagging @kclsu  and @kingsresilife and using the hashtag #ThisKingsGirlCan  #kingsresilife

For more information and inspiration check out the This Girl Can website:

The Girl Can

Get active with BeActive Halls

8th September 2016 / / 0 Comments

Hey there!

I’m Alyx, the Sports Participation Coordinator at King’s Sport. Working in the Sports Department, everyone always asks me what ‘my sport’ is, but in truth I’m not particularly good at any sports – I just love being active and teaming up with friends.13124814_645156652299847_6755941854234291869_n

The majority of my role is coordinating BeActive, which is our Recreational Sport programme and it’s all about giving something a go in a social, non-competitive environment. Usually there is a membership fee, but as a resident in a King’s College London Halls of Residence for 2016/2017 you get free access!

You’ll get exclusive access to the BeActive Halls programme, as well as being able to attend all the sessions included in the standard programme, which is open to all student at King’s. This means you have more than 45 sessions to choose from every week during term time – and all for free! Every session takes place within walking distance of halls of residence, and all students living in halls of residence can attend any session at any of the locations, regardless of experience or how sporty you think you are.

To get involved all you need to do is choose a session from the timetable included in your welcome pack when you move into halls, then show up to the venue with your King’s College London student card. There will be one of my trusty Activators there to welcome you and get you started with the session.

The timetable starts12186378_561167030698810_1556061476874814786_o on the Monday 3rd October but you’ll also be able to catch me and the team before then at campus and residences events and at fresher’s fair during Welcome Week. So if you have any questions about BeActive Halls or more generally sport at King’s – be it club sport, King’s Move, facilities – don’t hesitate to ask us!

I’m sure you’ll enjoy your first weeks moving into halls, and I hope to see as many of you as possible down and enjoying a BeActive session in the near future!

Alyx

Sports Participation Coordinator, King’s Sport.

Kcl.ac.uk/sport/beactive

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