Freshman 15: College Weight Gain Is Real

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The founder and CEO Keenan Avery of KeyFit, the health and mental exercise performance center, today announced its grand opening for its first official gym located at East 116th Street in Manhattan will offer (current and former) undergraduate students the ability to exercise and receive therapy sessions for a seasonal fee of $100. Prior to KeyFit, Mr. Avery served as a student activist and supporter for health and exercise at local gyms across the Tri-State area. He mentions the idea of KeyFit resonates from being an undergrad student and never having time to visit the gym to workout. In addition, he mentions therapy sessions as an undergrad would have helped to relieve the mental tension and stresses in accordance to his undergrad curriculum. …show more content…

Avery is neither a scientist nor a doctor. Although, common sense and substantial evidence can tell us the major causes of weight gain and psychological trauma can be attributed to students having to stress about grades, financial responsibilities, and one’s future.
The validity in connecting students gaining weight from stress is the infamous freshman 15. The article “Freshman 15: College Weight Gain Is Real” by Jennifer Warner is a recent study that proves that nearly one in four freshman gain at least 5% of their body weight, which is approximately 10 pounds, during the course of their first semester.”
There are critics that question the CEO’s actual plans for KeyFit. However, KeyFit’s founder is looking to take on the cumbersome task in an attempting to change student lives. Which, to his credit he’s made KeyFit incredibly successful among students within the local community. Critics also believe that these changes in behavior and environment for example can be from students partying and drinking. Nonetheless, the freshman fifteen is real and many undergrads like KeyFit’s founder has said to have witnessed it …show more content…

It’s so much more and any former or current student will not want to pass this up. The seasonal rate of $100 grants you access to the fitness centers equipment and machines as well as therapy sessions made to guide each individual student to an organized mind state while dealing with the stresses of college.
The opening of KeyFit is a dream made reality for its founder and CEO, Mr. Keenan Avery. The health and mental exercise gym will launch their grand opening at E 116th street in Manhattan, New York.
KeyFit is looking to change the entire fitness world for students. KeyFit is introducing completely new ways for undergrad students of past and current colleges and universities to obtain success mentally, physically, emotionally, and academically. The plan will take time to be effective; however the goal could have the future of education evolve into a new paradigm for so many students.
KeyFit fitness center some would say is a major key to

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