Weight Room

Many students are aware that Eastview High School has a weight room. Many people have probably taken a required strength class and have there for used the weight room. Eastview has approximately two thousand students, most of which do not use the weight room outside of a gym class. On an average day there are usually only about one hundred students who use the weight room that are not currently in a sport. In my opinion there should be hundreds more students using the weight room regularly. There are many benefits to working out after school. One is that it is good for your health. Another benefit is that you can prepare for a sport if you are in one. And lastly you can spend time with friends.

If more students would stay after school to work out, the chances of the school expanding the weight room would be greater. Right now it is a decent size for the amount of people that use it. But if we could get more students to use the weight room and track the school might expand it and add more weights. I believe the weight room also needs to get some new equipment and heavier weights because many students have lots of potential to get bigger, faster, and stronger. It would help many of our school athletic teams if athletes had access to more and heavier weights. But back to the main topic, if more students were going to the weight room it would also help athletic teams.

In my opinion the majority of people who ‘stay after’ to lift are either currently in a sport or they are training for one. These people are not the only people that should stay after to lift and run. It is well known that lifting and running will improve health. This means that if more students lifted and ran it would help strength our community and families. You never know, it may even inspire parents to become more active. All in all, more students have to go to the weight room after school.