3D Sweat class helps students get fit through self-motivation

Alexa Roth // Staff Writer

School and work may consume most Panthers’ time this semester, but the Wellness and Recreation Center at the Biscayne Bay Campus offers fitness classes at different times for students to get fit. Varying from yoga to boot camps and classes such as “3D Sweat,” students are able to choose a class taught between Monday and Friday, and participate for free.

Trainer and fitness coach, Daniel Triche, teaches a few of these classes; he has been a personal trainer for five years, and for four years within the FIU community.

Triche says the best thing about being a trainer is “helping people change their lifestyle.”

He started the class, 3D Sweat, as a way to get students together and enjoy a great workout. “Being in a group setting, I believe I can impact more than one person because it’s a bigger setting, and I get great satisfaction from that,” said Triche.

Sometimes students are intimidated by the name of the class, or just unsure about taking classes to begin with. However, Triche recommends students to take the class to self-motivate and better themselves.

“Students can gain a lot from these classes,” Triche said. “They can learn how to have a better lifestyle, how to push themselves, and how to exercise more efficiently.”

The fitness coach has had students who’ve come to his class for the first time, and can barely get through the workout. At the end of the semester, however, those same students are looking for more challenges to push them.

“I love the challenge,” Triche said. “I love pushing people to their limit and seeing them succeed.”

Graduate student, Ivan Rodriguez-Pinto, has taken Triche’s classes numerous times, and really likes the way the class is instructed and how energetic Triche is.

“The quality of the workout and the instructor are really great,” Rodriguez-Pinto said. “There is a lot of knowledge and education behind the way he teaches. It is clear that there was a lot of research that has gone into the instruction and preparation for each class.”

Students like Rodriguez-Pinto are pushed to their limits and are making improvements every class.

“Daniel is a welcoming person,” Rodriguez-Pinto said. “He pulls out the best in you, even if you are not sure you can do something, he is always there to help you through it.”

The class is offered weekly at BBC’s Wellness and Recreation Center on Wednesdays at 12 p.m.