Week 3: I Am What I Eat (Squat & Sit to Stand Exercise)

(FYI – This is a sample page from the CatholicFIT 8-week program, though no links are active not all information is up to date. If you’d like to discuss sharing the CatholicFIT program at your school, please contact us today!)

Welcome to week 3! We are squatting this week – air squats, double squats, pause squats, and single leg squats (stand ups) from a chair or bench. These are great leg strengtheners after an agility warm up. Check out the video below.

This week’s principle is FOOD & FASTING – focusing on eating “God-made food” most of the time. Also, we discuss mindfulness when eating:

• understanding calories is important, but the healthier foods you eat, the less you have to count calories,
• hungry? Mindful eaters ask themselves where that hunger is true physical hunger, or whether you just feel like eating due to boredom or your social surroundings
• feel full? how do you feel an hour after your meal? These are important questions to journal whe refining a healthier nutrition routine.

Most importantly, we learn how central the Eucharist is to the Catholic faith. CCC #1324 reads: The Eucharist is “the source and summit of the Christian life.”¹³⁶ “The other sacraments, and indeed all ecclesiastical ministries and works of the apostolate, are bound up with the Eucharist and are oriented toward it. For in the blessed Eucharist is contained the whole spiritual good of the Church, namely Christ himself.

*Bulleted items below are all active links to PDF’s and other materials for schools who are utilizing the eight week curriculum.

• Click here for your Weekly Worksheet (PDF with 3rd and 6th Grade Version)
• Lesson Planning Sheet for Teachers and Parents (PDF)

Cathletic squats up the intensity two ways:

• loaded squats – when we “load” an exercise, we add weight or resistance. So as you will see here, we use barbells, kettlebells, and dumbbells to advance our squats.
• plyometric squats – we do jumping variations of the single leg squat and squat jumps. We also briefly look at box jumps, where we step from a box or step and rebound right into a jump. Check it out!