Music, friends and a pretty nice sweat for everyone who joins us is guaranteed on April 23rd at Trinity High School. I have designed a one mile course that will include all of the CatholicFIT exercises we have been practicing each week. Plan to bring your entire family and RSVP Read more
On June 5th, I was blessed with the opportunity to speak at the St. Louis Archdiocese Health & Safety Summit. My focus was (and is) this: Can we utilize a universal faith and fitness curriculum that will strengthen the Catholic identity and the health and fitness of our students and 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
(This is an older post from when their was a Self Expression and Discipline principle, though most of these ideas still apply.) The 6th principle is Learning & Sharing. I’d like to think God wants us to be healthy and happy, and therefore has blessed us with two things: the Read more
The Week 4 CatholicFIT Principle is Sleep, Rest & Recovery. “Recovery exercises” should be mixed into your current or new program and include stretching, mobility exercises and rolling/body work techniques. Recovery basically means to heal up from a previous activity and prepare for the next day or activity – whether Read more
Similar to prayer, stretching is an acquired skill that requires mindfulness and consistency. I imagine that saying a memorized Our Father without too much thought is like performing a calf stretch for a few seconds without feeling what tissues are actually being effected. I see many well intended people give Read more
The CatholicFIT Principle for week 3 is Food. Food is our life source. What we eat throughout the day may dictate our energy level, our mental focus, our emotional state, our physical performance and our healing potential. Sweet Moses food is crazy important. Fortunately for us, God has given us Read more
Just in time for Week Two featuring the squat (the strength move of the week), I came across this article. (The original article is linked below.) I have pasted and tweaked the eight benefits here. I assess and work on squats with every person and group I see. If someone Read more
The week one exercise is the squat. The basic squat is the king of all fundamental human moves as it is what we do to sit, stand and pick things up. If you feel ready to progress the basic squat, simply perform it on one leg. (Strength Move #1 below.) Read more
One of the primary strength and stretch moves we will be assessing (and improving) throughout CatholicFIT is the basic squat. There are three ways we test the squat as I discuss in the video below. As with all of our exercises, we view them as skills that we want to Read more
