*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…
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…
Your printable Culture Warrior CORE Workout and Stretching Principles is here: CLICK HERE TO OPEN AND PRINT. We knocked out all of these and more at the last CatholicFIT Family Workshop … this is the “cheat sheet” we gave out last week. All of the Culture Warrior Workout sheets are Read more…
We are experiencing a crisis in our Church today. The latest surveys from Pew Forum study and CARA reports indicate that more and more Catholics are spiritually and religiously illiterate. – Jared Dees, TheReligionTeacher.com Today, only 30% of those raised Catholic are practicing today. The challenges span beyond the Catholic Read more…
Many well intended people give up on a stretching routine because they don’t know or adhere to the appropriate strategies. Embrace these ideas. Your body and your loved ones who have to, or will eventually have to take care of you, will thank you all the more. Effective stretching (and 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…
Education & Exercise Go Hand In Hand From the CatholicFIT Week 7 Hand Out: The principle of Education states that we are always learning new things about our body at each stage and age of life. Education equals mindfulness. Being mindful, that is, listening to your body when you exercise 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…
So I obviously can’t help but post this … enjoy … These are all great exercises in this video … if you have a problem with any of them, download my FREE e-Book Catholic Calisthenics which covers the four primary exercises we do in every mass. My mission is to Read more…
St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) was a philosopher and theologian from the 13th century whose work I believe supports the mantra, “it is difficult to study your way out of the Catholic Church.” Aquinas had a phrase, physico-theology, he used for discussing theology through the prism, design or make up of Read more…
