{"id":10265,"date":"2026-02-17T01:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=10265"},"modified":"2026-02-17T11:24:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T08:24:48","slug":"sporting-life-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=10265","title":{"rendered":"Sporting Life\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Name:<\/strong>&nbsp;\u00d6mer&nbsp;Meri\u00e7&nbsp;Erdem&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Department: <\/strong>ME&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How often do you exercise?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I exercise five times a week.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How has regular exercise affected your life?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s&nbsp;my motive to live by. Literally.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What do you suggest to those who are just taking up a sport or starting to exercise?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t&nbsp;push too soon. Progress may take time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What are the first three things that come to mind when you hear the word \u201csports\u201d?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pull-ups, dips, muscle-ups.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Which&nbsp;Bilkent&nbsp;sports facilities do you use?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The gyms, mostly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Have you taken any courses or participated in any activities (university teams, intramural tournaments, swim festivals, Zumba master classes, etc.)?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I won medals in the 800m and 1500m athletics events at the METU Cup.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name:&nbsp;\u00d6mer&nbsp;Meri\u00e7&nbsp;Erdem&nbsp; Department: ME&nbsp; How often do you exercise?&nbsp; I exercise five times a week.&nbsp; How has regular exercise affected your life?&nbsp; It\u2019s&nbsp;my motive to live by. Literally.&nbsp; What do you suggest to those who are just taking up a sport or starting to exercise?&nbsp; Don\u2019t&nbsp;push too soon. Progress may take<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=10265\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[212,83,193],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10283,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10265\/revisions\/10283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}