Start Your Week Off Right With A New Style of Workout: Collegefit

By Corissa Mosher on February 14, 2015

CollegeFit: CrossFit, College Style

We’ve all seen pictures of CrossFitters or at least have heard about CrossFit, but have never given it another thought because we don’t have the time or money to join a CrossFit gym and learn the craft. However, CrossFit is still possible without all of the fancy equipment. The body you have always dreamed of is still attainable, even in college. It may not be as intense of a workout as those who compete in CrossFit, but the ideal CrossFit body is still in reach. It is still CrossFit but with a college twist, it is CollegeFit.

Workout 1: Booty Guide.

1. Jog 800 Meters. Start with a warm up, make it a slow jog. Jogging 800 meters will get you heart pumping and your breathing ready for the rest of the workout. This exercise is only meant to loosen and prepare your muscles there is no need to run for time right away.

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2. 20 Squats. Engage the glutes with the first workout. Start with feet hips-distance apart, squat down as low as you can without your knees passing the tips of your toes. Make sure you are not going knock-kneed (as you squat down make picture pushing your knees outward for some resistance). Stand all the way back up, then all the way onto your tip-toes, squeezing your butt as you raise up. Keep your stomach tight for even more of a workout. Extra weight/dumbbells are not necessary

Photo via Corissa

Photo via Corissa

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3. 20 One-Legged bends. This is a balance exercise so it should work your whole leg. Stand on one foot with most of your weight at the ball of your foot. Weights are not necessary but if you choose to have some hold it in same hand as the foot that is off the ground. simply bend over, touch your hand or weight to your toe and stand back up. For even more of a challenge, keep your standing leg straight. Repeat on opposite leg.

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4. 20 crunches. Take a break from the legs and crunch it out!

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Photo via Corissa

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. 20 Walking Lounges. Lounge it out! Make your lounge strides as long as possible and get your bottom knee down all the way to the floor. Once again never let your knee go over your toes and avoid going knock-kneed. Imagine your knees pressing outward for resistance and keep your belly tight. Do 20 lounges on each leg. Hold weights in both hands to add difficulty.

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6. Sprint 400 meters. By now your body should be warm and ready to go. Sprint as fast as you can for 400 meters.

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7. Repeat Three More Times. Repeat steps 2-6 three times so you have done a total of four rounds. It is not necessary to repeat the 800 meter warm up jog.

CrossFit is meant to make you work. It is meant to give you small bursts of vigorous exercise. When you are done with all four rounds you should have done 80 squats, 80 one-legged bends, 80 crunches, 80 walking lounges, and sprinted a mile. These things are almost impossible to do all together (especially just starting out) but by repeating these short exercises many times we are giving all we got.

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