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Beauchamp Center

Beauchamp Center: Spring Break, March Offerings

Over spring break, the Beauchamp Center is offering Tuesday/Thursday cycle sessions at 6:30 a.m., and all regular noon-hour classes, with the exception of Weight Room Basics. In March, there are a few small adjustments. Fridays will alternate between Zumba and Rowing, and Tai Chi will begin again in April. Please see our March schedule below.

Morning classes, open to students, faculty and staff:

  • Tuesdays – Pilot Cycle with Susan from 6:30-7:30 a.m. in Studio 20
  • Thursdays – Pilot Cycle with Susan from 6:30-7:30 a.m. in Studio 20
Lunch hour classes, from 12:05-12:50 p.m. in Studio 30 each weekday:
  • Mondays – Slow Flow Yoga with Osel and Weight Room Basics with Kayla in the Weight Room (no WR Basics on 3/2)
  • Tuesdays – Sweaty 20 with Julee
  • Wednesdays – Centering Yoga with Karen
  • Thursdays – Zumba with Brady
  • Fridays – alternating each week with Zumba with Kamryn (3/6 and 3/20) and Rowing with Ryan (3/13 and 3/27).

For more information contact Kaitlin Bourne at x7294 or bourne@up.edu.

Spring 2020 Faculty/Staff Fitness Classes: Now Even More!

There is no better time than now to improve your fitness. The Beauchamp Center is offering even more faculty/staff fitness classes for spring 2020, including Tai Chi and weight room basics.

Lunch-hour classes: These classes are from 12:05 -12:50 p.m., M-F:

  • Mondays – Slow Flow Yoga with Osel in Studio 30 and Weight Room Basics with Kayla in the Weight Room (WR Basics starts 1/24)
  • Tuesdays- Sweaty 20 with Julee in Studio 30
  • Wednesdays- Centering Yoga with Karen in Studio 30
  • Thursdays – Zumba with Brady in Studio 45
  • Fridays- alternating each week: Rowing with Ryan in Studio 45: Jan. 17 & 31, Feb. 14 & 28, March 13 & 27;    Tai Chi with Jim in Studio 30: Jan 24, Feb 7 & 21, March 6 & 20, April 3; Zumba with Kamryn in Studio 45: Feb. 21, March 6 & 20, April 3.
Morning classes: Open to students, faculty and staff:
  • Tuesdays – Pilot Cycle with Susan from 6:30 a.m.-7:30 a.m. in Studio 20
  • Thursdays – Pilot Cycle with Susan from 6:30 a.m.-7:30 a.m. in Studio 20

Looking for guidance in the weight room? Kayla is an experienced weightlifter and coach. She is eager to help you develop a weightlifting routine. Weight Room Basics is a course to solidify fundamental weightlifting movements, mainly with the barbell, and build upon these skills each week. In this class, we build the strength and skill sets in the, squat, pull, and pressing movements, and as the class progresses testing these movements to document growth.

Print out this file for a schedule to post at your desk!

More Faculty & Staff Fitness Classes in Spring 2020

The Beauchamp Center is offering more faculty/staff fitness classes in Spring 2020. All classes, with the exception of Weight Room Basics, begin the first week of school.
Morning classes: These classes are open to students, faculty and staff.
  • Tuesdays – Pilot Cycle with Susan from 6:30-7:30 a.m. in Studio 20
  • Thursdays – Pilot Cycle with Susan from 6:30-7:30 a.m. in Studio 20
  • Fridays – Weight Room Basics with Kayla from 7:15-8:15 a.m. in the Weight Room *Starts 1/24
Lunch hour classes: These classes are from 12:05-12:50 p.m. in Studio 30 each weekday.
  • Mondays – Slow Flow Yoga with Osel
  • Tuesdays – Sweaty 20 with Julee
  • Wednesdays – Centering Yoga with Karen
  • Thursdays – Zumba with Brady
  • Fridays – alternating each week with Rowing with Ryan (starts 1/17) and Zumba with Kamryn (starts 1/24).

For more information contact Kaitlin Bourne, recreational services, at x7294 or bourne@up.edu.

Beauchamp Center Closed Jan. 8-12

The Beauchamp Recreation and Wellness Center will be closed from Wednesday, January 8 until Sunday, January 12 for facility updates, according to Kaitlin Bourne, recreational services. Faculty and staff fitness classes will resume on Monday, January 13. The schedule will be posted next week.

For more information contact Bourne at bourne@up.edu.

Recreational Services: Please Tell Us What You Think

Survey illustration Rec ServicesThe recreational services office would love to have input from faculty and staff regarding the Beauchamp Center and its services. Below is a link for a quick, 10 question survey. It should take less than 2-3 minutes to complete. A few lucky respondents will be chosen to receive free Columbia Sportswear merchandise, so please follow this link to take the survey.

Thank you and happy holidays from the recreational services team!

Last week of Beauchamp Faculty/Staff Fitness Classes For 2019

This week, the Beauchamp Center will only be running classes Tuesday-Thursday. All classes begin at 12:05 p.m. in Studio 30.
  • Tuesday, December 17 – Sweaty 20 with Julee
  • Wednesday, December 18 – Invigorating Yoga with Kaitlin
  • Thursday, December 19 – Slow Flow Yoga with Osel
Come relive some stress before the holidays! For more information contact Kaitlin Bourne, recreational services, at bourne@up.edu.

Faculty, Staff Fitness Schedule for Finals Week

Finals week will have the following fitness schedule for faculty and staff in the Beauchamp Center:

  • Mon., Dec. 8: No classes.
  • Tue., Dec. 9: Sweaty 20 with Julee, 12:15 p.m., Studio 30
  • Wed., Dec. 10: Centering Yoga with Karen, 12:05 p.m., Studio 30
  • Thur., Dec. 11: Rowing with Ryan, 12:05 p.m., Studio 30
  • Fri., Dec. 12: Zumba with Brady, 12:05 p.m., Studio 30.

For more information contact Kaitlin Bourne, recreational services, at bourne@up.edu.

Student Self-Defense Class, Nov. 24

Woman rebuffing man, self-defense courses for women, stop domestic violence

The Beauchamp Center and recreational services will offer students a unique self defense class on Sunday, November 24, from 4:30 to 6 p.m., in Studio 20. Students will learn awareness and boundary setting, verbal assertiveness, bystander intervention, and physical self defense strategies for both stranger and acquaintance situations. This course is designed to build students’ confidence in protecting and defending themselves. It will be a transformational class they don’t want to miss.

Please help recreational services spread the word and feel free to send the ad linked here to your students.

For more information contact Kaitlin Bourne, recreational services, at bourne@up.edu.

UP Shamrock Run Team: Let’s Do It Again!

The Portland Shamrock Run is one of the city’s largest events and the University of Portland team is back and needs your help. Participants can sign up for any distance (5k, 8k, 15k and half-marathon runs, as well as the 4k Stride and 1k Leprechaun Lap for kiddos). To sign up, go to this link.  Be sure to select `Join a Team’ and search for and select `University of Portland’. All racers are helping support Doernbecher Children’s Hospital.  Register as soon as possible to take advantage of reduced registration rates.  The last day to register with the team is January 31st, 2020. Team registrants will have their race packets mailed to them; other registrants have to pick up their packets at the Expo Center on Friday or Saturday before the race. Take advantage of this convenience and joint the UP team!

For more information contact Kaitlin Bourne, recreational services, at bourne@up.edu or the UP team captain, Hans Nordstrom, mathematics, at x7295 or nordstro@up.edu.

Fall Break Beauchamp Center Hours

The Beauchamp Center will be open on the following schedule for fall break, according to Kaitlin Bourne, recreational services:

  • Friday, October 11: 6 a.m. – 7 p.m.
  • Saturday and Sunday, October 12 & 13: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
  • Monday, October 14: 7 a.m. – 9 a.m., and 3:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. (Closed mid-day for UP Professional Development Day)
  • Tuesday, October 15 – Friday, October 18: 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.
  • Saturday, October 19: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
  • Sunday, October 20: 10 a.m. – 12 a.m.

Fall Break Fitness Schedule: All classes are open to students, faculty and staff.

  • Monday: no classes
  • Tuesday: Pilot Cycle, 6:30–7:30 a.m., Studio 20. Sweaty 20, 12:15 –12:45 p.m., Studio 30
  • Wednesday: Yoga, 12:05 –12:55 p.m., Studio 30
  • Thursday: Pilot Cycle, 6:30 –7:30 a.m., Studio 20. Rowing, 12:05–12:50 p.m.
  • Friday: Zumba, 12:05–12:55 p.m., Studio 30
For more information contact Bourne at x7294 or bourne@up.edu.