{"id":11707,"date":"2026-11-09T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T05:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=11707"},"modified":"2026-11-10T11:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T08:28:08","slug":"sporting-life-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=11707","title":{"rendered":"Sporting Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Name: <\/strong>Zeynep Bet\u00fcl \u00d6zt\u00fcrk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Department: <\/strong>AMER<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How has regular exercise affected your life?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I strongly believe much of our daily anxiety or depression stems from physical inactivity. Since I started moving every day, I\u2019ve become much happier and funkier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What do you suggest to those who are just taking up a sport or starting to exercise?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s easy to get overwhelmed as a complete beginner. The most important thing is not to lose your excitement \u2014 don\u2019t be hard on yourself, and always see the fun in it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What are the first three things that come to mind when you hear the word \u201csports\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fun, fear, consistency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Which sports facilities do you use?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mostly the skate park, but also the swimming pool, the stadium and the dorm gym.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Have you taken any courses or participated in any activities?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I took aikido classes but have never been on any of the teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Zeynep Bet\u00fcl \u00d6zt\u00fcrk Department: AMER How has regular exercise affected your life? I strongly believe much of our daily anxiety or depression stems from physical inactivity. Since I started moving every day, I\u2019ve become much happier and funkier. What do you suggest to those who are just taking up<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=11707\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[233,83,224],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11707"}],"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=11707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11708,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11707\/revisions\/11708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}