alking on Wenhui Road, you may receive a wad of leaflets, advertisement sheets for different gyms. Last month, a new gym, Fei’te Fitness Center, opened on Wenhui Road, becoming at least the fifth gyms on Wenhui Road.

“Around 200 people came to workout in our gym everyday,” said the manager Pan. “Our members will bring their friends to the gym and usually they will also become our members after taking one class.”

It seems that there is a workout trend on campus. 73.2 percent of the students of Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) choose to work out and 9.86 percent among them exercise almost everyday.

Chen Xiaoyang, a junior student in SISU, started her workout since this semester, but before she wasn’t really keen on doing exercise and sports. “One of my friends got interested in health training after she took lessons with her personal trainer,” she said.

73 percent of the students shape their bodies in order to lose weight. So losing weight is the most popular goal among SISU students. And releasing stress becomes the second choice, as 53.9 percent of the students took it as a reason.

“I used to stay up late last semester and get irregular rests. Besides I didn’t exercise much, so I had hormone disorder, which made me really uncomfortable,” said by Xiang Yifan, a SISU student who also started work out this semester.

Both of them choose to exercise at the new-opened gym with their classmates. “Fei’te gym is near the university and we can get a relatively cheap price when it just opened, 870 CNY for a 12-month membership. And I won’t stop working out partly because I don’t want to waste money.”

In the survey 93 percent of the students think bodybuilding does help.

“I think there is a workout trend and it’s nice, because it represents a higher demand of life quality,” Chen Xiaoyang said.