Discussion of the Pillars of Catholic Fitness
*THIS IS A SAMPLE OF THE WEEK 1 RESOURCES PAGE – not all of the links are active as they would be on the actual resource page sent out to teachers during the program. The video below shows the first 2-3 minutes of the 6 minute video shown in the Read more
I love Pope Francis’ quote about young people expressing their talents and gifts. Applied to fitness, we are all born with a certain amount of physical gifts and potential. It is through health, fitness and physical education and practice we can preserve, restore and celebrate these gifts. I have reviewed Read more
Being a fit person begins with purpose. Fitness goals represent a purpose, a reason and therefore motivation to exercise. Weight loss, reducing aches and/or playing a sport are all common goals that serve a purpose. The difference with being CatholicFIT is that while we can certainly continue working towards these Read more
Not sure we can discuss the 4th Pillar of Catholic Fitness enough … Sleep, Rest & Recovery. Here is another short but great talk about honoring our natural sleep cycle. “Our body clock is incredibly important for our lives and probably the most underrated force on our behavior.” – Jessa Read more
Coming Soon. Check out this week’s Week 8 Recap.
I am fit to serve. Being CatholicFIT is about asking yourself two questions: What does it mean to be Catholic? What does it meant to be fit? Let’s look at the first question. The Catholic church exists in part to help us become saints. Catholics are people who are at Read more
The 5th Pillar of Catholic Fitness is Exercise. Think about this: what we call “exercise” in 2015 is more or less a set of ideas and movements people have used for generations to simply survive, work and play. People had to walk, run, lunge, etc out of necessity … hunting Read more
Just as you would gather various tools and materials to build a house, we hope to gather and practice the materials necessary to build a strong(er) foundation of faith, family and fitness. Our materials and tools are the 10 Pillars of Catholic Fitness. These are also the same pillars that Read more
Fitness is defined as the ability to perform a task. If the purpose for your exercise is to improve your ability to perform daily tasks, plus honor and express your physical gifts, (and do so in your daily activity, sport and in service for others), you may not only improve Read more
Welcome to week one! I will be posting the exercises for every week, so please check back to the PROGRAM RESOURCES page each week for review. The focus of our exercises is this: restore our God given abilities to move as we were intended to move, before we began sitting Read more
