Cougar Fit Summer Challenge Open to CofC Faculty, Staff

Keep in mind the times when challenges meant one thing enjoyable – not one thing to beat? The older we get, the extra overwhelming our challenges can appear. However the Cougar Match Summer season 2022 Problem modifications all that – a minimum of in relation to our bodily health and well being!

The Cougar Match Summer season 2022 Problem offers Faculty of Charleston school and workers who’re feeling somewhat overwhelmed by their health objectives a good way not simply to get began, however to stay with their health journey and see their progress alongside the way in which.

“Getting right into a health routine is difficult whether or not it’s been a couple of months or a couple of weeks because you’ve labored out,” says Sara Coleman ’17, health coordinator for Campus Recreation Companies. “However, even if you happen to really feel weak and drained, you’re going to get that power and health again. You simply should know the place to start out.”

And, to assist school and workers discover their private place to begin, Coleman has created a collection of evaluation assessments that may be carried out at work or at house to measure their health ranges and set sensible health objectives for the summer season.

“Understanding the specifics might help you set practical health objectives, monitor your progress and keep your motivation,” says Coleman, a licensed health specialist (Trident Tech), licensed train specialist (NASM), licensed power and conditioning specialist (NSCA), licensed private coach (ACE) and group health teacher (ACSM) with an M.S. in well being, train and sports activities science. “As soon as you realize your place to begin, you’ll be able to plan the place you need to go.”

The problem – which school and workers can tackle individually, in pairs or as a division/group – is tailor-made to members’ health ranges and to their work state of affairs: whether or not workers make money working from home or commute to campus.

“For these selecting to do the one right here at work, you’ll do all the assessments right here with me as your proctor,” says Coleman. “At-home members will obtain an in depth electronic mail, with weekly check-ins from yours really.”

The one-hour assessments embody a one-minute curl-up check, a sit-and-reach check and the selection between a 1.5-mile jog or a one-mile stroll. Very important indicators like blood stress and resting/train/restoration coronary heart fee – in addition to info like weight, peak, VO2 max and BMI – will even be recorded.

As well as, problem members will set particular person weekly accountability objectives, and all outcomes shall be submitted to Coleman to maintain members accountable.

“The outcomes can then be used to set health objectives through the summer season and observe your progress and maintain your self accountable,” says Coleman. “Any optimistic adjustment in your well being is an efficient objective. By having a objective, we now have one thing to try for and, in flip, this helps us to really feel extra optimistic as a result of having clear objectives causes us to really feel much less careworn and lessens the emotions of failure we placed on ourselves. Having a transparent focus permits us to really feel like we now have management over our lives and creates a optimistic mindset that’s essential for attaining our objectives.”

Sara Coleman ’17 teaches a Cougar Match class.

The primary spherical of assessments run via June 3, 2022, with reassessments carried out between Cougar Match Summer season Session 1 (June 6–29) and Summer season Session 2 (July 6–Aug. 3) after which once more on the finish of Cougar Match Summer season Session 2.

RELATED: Study extra about Cougar Match, the free group health class designed only for school and workers.

Cougar Match is a free circuit coaching/HIIT-based class designed only for school and workers to offer a health problem for all health ranges and focuses on power coaching and cardiovascular workout routines for optimum weight reduction and metabolic boosting, in addition to appropriate kind and approach for damage prevention.

Beginning Monday, June 6, 2022, the 45-minute lessons shall be held at 5:15 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays within the George Avenue Health club classroom.

Cougar Match Summer season Session 1 (June 6–29) shall be concentrating on core power and suppleness and, after all, cardio.

“We need to construct again what we might have misplaced through the semester,” says Coleman, noting that the category will embody regressed and superior workout routines. “This session shall be for all ranges and will certainly be sweat classes to deliver again our particular person power.”

RELATED: Discover out extra about Coleman’s exercises and the way she earned the moniker, Angel of Dying.

After a break (June 30–July 5), Cougar Match Summer season Session 2 (July 6–Aug. 3) will consider practical health, incorporating extra resistance gear.

“We are going to incorporate extra resistance gear and we shall be launched to how we will use our newfound power and apply it towards our day by day life,” says Coleman, including that each classes will consider the basics of health: steadiness, endurance, power and suppleness.

“In case your basis isn’t proper, you’ll be able to’t enhance. That’s why we’re going to deliver it again to fundamentals – in order that we will then transfer on to the enjoyable stuff,” she says, noting that, by the tip of the summer season, members will really feel achieved and motivated – one thing value celebrating. “As I all the time say, train must be a celebration of what your physique can do, not a punishment.”

And that’s the way you make a problem enjoyable once more!

Participation within the problem shouldn’t be required to attend Cougar Match lessons. To remain updated on school/workers group health choices – and to entry further exercises, suggestions and health details – electronic mail Assistant Director of Health Bucky Buchanan ’08 at lbuchana@cofc.edu to achieve entry the College & Workers Health Groups web page.

To take part within the Cougar Match Summer season 2022 Problem, electronic mail Sara Coleman at colemansm@cofc.edu for this system packet and for the small print in your first evaluation.

Please keep in mind to deliver your Cougar Card to all lessons and assessments.