{"id":9505,"date":"2025-11-04T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=9505"},"modified":"2025-11-04T16:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T13:03:17","slug":"sporting-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=9505","title":{"rendered":"Sporting Life\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Name: <\/strong>Nisa Se\u00e7er&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Department:<\/strong> ECON&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How often do you exercise?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I exercise five days 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 clears my mind and makes me motivated throughout the day.&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>I have been doing fitness regularly for 1.5 years now. Even though you feel unmotivated, don\u2019t give up. After three to four weeks it gets much easier.&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>Health, improvement, feeling\u2014the feeling that the body improves, and standing emotion too.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Which Bilkent sports facilities (sports halls, playing fields, tennis courts, etc.) do you use?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I use the Sports Halls, but I\u2019ve been to the tennis courts and playing fields as well.&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 took badminton classes for a period. Now, I dance with Bilkent Dance Community. I do contemporary dance. I\u2019ve taken hip hop dance classes, and I do fitness, pilates and yoga on my own.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Nisa Se\u00e7er&nbsp; Department: ECON&nbsp; How often do you exercise?&nbsp; I exercise five days a week.&nbsp; How has regular exercise affected your life?&nbsp; It clears my mind and makes me motivated throughout the day.&nbsp; What do you suggest to those who are just taking up a sport or starting to<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=9505\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[200,83,193],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9505"}],"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=9505"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9515,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9505\/revisions\/9515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}