If you arrive at this page, please visit https://brandeis.prestosports.com/information/homefitnesspages/index for the most up-to-date information.
Each week, Fitness Coordinator Kat Page will be sharing tips, videos and links to help keep the Brandeis community healthy and active during these difficult times. This is also where we will be posting links for group exercise classes via Zoom.
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Useful Resources
Here are direct links to the web sites I mentioned above!
The Office of Health and Wellness Promotion (HAWP)'s list of Virtual Health & Wellness Virtual provides a host of free or inexpensive resources from within and outside the Brandeis community.
FITBOD Free Bodyweight Workout Design app on iPhone gives you access to daily bodyweight workouts. You'll be able to log your workouts and keep track of your progress!
Life Fitness On-Demand contains three different sections of at-home workouts from the equipment company Life Fitness. WOD's (workout of the day) include body weight, small equipment, and strength/flexibility/restore.
Matrix At-Home Workouts has YouTube videos of cardio, strength, power and endurance exercises you can do at home with no equipment.
Barre Intensity (This one has a moderate $1 fee): Barre Intensity combines attributes of Pilates, dance, and functional fitness training. It incorporates small isolated movement to fatigue the muscles, large range motion to elevate the heart rate, and sequencing that incorporates the upper and lower body to make every minute count.
Matrix Fitness, one of our fitness equipment vendors, has created a FREE Workout of the Day App that will provide daily workouts. Click here from your mobile device to download their app.
NEW: 15 Minute Full Body Yoga Stretches for Stiff & Tight Muscles
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Live Class Schedule
Tuesday at 5 PM, Starting March 31
Barre with Lainey
Zoom Link (Contact Lainey, solomona - at - brandeis - dot - edu for the password)
A full-body workout that incorporates elements of cardio, strength training, and mindfulness. Hand-held weights, mats, and resistance bands are used, and modifications of movements will be offered so that everyone can work at their own level. Note: A ballet barre is only used for a support and balance, so no experience with ballet is required!
Thursday at 5 pm, Starting April 9
HIIT with Julia
Join Julia for a 40-minute sweaty HIIT (High-Intensity Impact Training) workout! This full body exercise class will get you moving and keep you energized. No equipment. No weights. Just you!
Friday at Noon, Starting March 27
Flow Yoga with Tiginesh
This is a gently paced class that instills comfort and strength to explore a blossoming practice. Great for any student looking for a gentle, contemplative practice and an opportunity to relax and restore through meditation and movement. The class involves slow vinyasa sequences such as sun salutations and standing poses.
Fridays at 5 PM, Starting April 3
ZOOMba with Sarah Getzoff
Zoom Link (contact saragetzoff99 at gmail dot com for password)
Various Days and Times
Couch to 5 K with Kat
Join Running Enthusiast Kat for a weekly guided program to run a 5k in 9 weeks! There will be weekly emails and zoom meetings to hold members accountable along with motivation and tips on how to train! At the end of the 9 weeks, there will be a virtual 5k!!
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Exercise with Kat
April 8
April 7
March 31
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Friday Feature
Here's how some of our colleagues are keeping fit and healthy during their social distancing!
April 10
Lusi Wang (Area Coordinator, Department of Community Living)
I love this! Mostly I am walking from my bed to my couch to the kitchen to the office, but I guess my professional answer would be taking walks (pokemon go!), yoga on youtube, pushup challenges, and my gym (Nolan Brothers Boxing) has been putting out virtual workouts and challenges!
April 3
Colby Sim (Community Service Specialist)
My roommates and I follow different youtube channels on social media, and some fitness instructors are taking classes to Instagram live which is helpful. So we follow along and often times we'll have upwards of 4 yoga mats set up in the living room while we all work out together and follow along with the videos. We've done Zumba, pilates, HIIT, learning dance routines, and yoga. I know one of my coworkers is a runner and often goes out for runs on trails and takes her dog along with her. My other coworker has also been doing a lot of HIIT workouts because they're easy to do without any equipment and you can use your own body weight. The other activity my colleague recently started engaging in is bike riding and that doesn't require access to any specific location since many parks have been closing. You can ride around the neighborhood or on the local bike path!
Katie Dunn (Senior Academic Advisor)
I'm doing walks with my baby (he is 4 months this week!) mostly in my neighborhood which is by the water on the South Shore. The yoga studio I use (Chakra Power Yoga-has studios in Braintree, Waltham, Newton, and Hanover) is holding 3-4 virtual yoga classes each day with virtual memberships as low as $15/mo. I've been able to make a few classes a week and actually it's a bit easier logistically because my husband can just be downstairs with the baby and I can be upstairs!
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Strength and Conditioning
Jay Mendoza, the Strength and Conditioning Coach for Brandeis Athletics shares great tips on his Instagram feed as well. These can help you out whether you're a varsity athlete or not!
https://www.instagram.com/brandeisstrength