<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=25dZtz_1H1NuLXZ00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=25dZtz_1H1NuLXZ00" width="1160" height="870" ></figure>The heat one competitors after the competition with student trainers. The Collegian | Bristol WhitleyIn just 27 minutes, 17 seconds, Associate Professor of Psychology Collin Barnes completed almost two miles of a medicine ball run and more than 100 burpee pull-ups, setting a record at the Gallant Fitness Challenge Nov. 7. The Gallant Fitness Challenge, which took place at Founders Gym, is one of two “Hero Workouts” organized by student trainers at Hillsdale. This year, seniors Jesse Custer, Angel Jimenez, and Moriah Mitchell, and junior Maggie Phillips hosted the event. Barnes, senior Gabriel Higbie, and freshman Gabriel Holzwarth competed in the first heat of the morning, and four students competed in the second heat. The men took off on their first event — a one-mile run with a 20 pound medicine ball — around 9 a.m.Higbie made it back from the run first, and Barnes finished soon after. But Barnes completed the first section of burpee pull-ups quickly and headed back outside for the half-mile run.Barnes said the first mile was the hardest part of the workout.“I tried to block it out and just pace myself,” Barnes said after the event. “On that first mile, you’ve got all your energy, but if you pour it all on that first mile, you’re going to be blitzed.”He said he tried to treat the burpees like recovery.“Today, compared to running with the med ball, it felt a little better,” Barnes said. “I think it’s easy to underestimate how taxing an awkward object can be.”The workout is named for Taylor Gallant, a second class U.S. Navy Petty Officer who served in the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 12 based in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He died in 2012 while conducting diving operations off the coast of North Carolina, according to the Gallant organizers.Mitchell, who has been a student trainer for two years, explained that in addition to the legacy Gallant left behind, the fitness challenge has a rich history at the college.“It’s a health event that we’ve had here for years, and it’s been really popular. We repeat it every semester,” Mitchell said. “In the fall, we do the Gallant, and then in the spring, we do the Murph, which is themed after a different hero officer.”Hillsdale’s first Gallant challenge was held in the fall of 2024 to complement the spring Murph competition. The Gallant challenge is one of 246 hero workouts created by the CrossFit brand.Barnes has been competing in the Gallant for the last three years. His wife, Meghan Barnes, was there to watch him compete. She said he has a grit that makes him a great athlete.“He’s just got that extra gear that can go extra hard. They say ‘go dark and just get it done,’ and I don’t have that. I can do the workout, but it would take me a long time,” Meghan Barnes said. “I’m so proud of him.”The Barnes started doing CrossFit training together in 2023.“I did this with him a couple years ago,” Meghan Barnes said. “I’ve been working out since college. He’s been working out since grad school, and now two of our daughters do CrossFit exercises with us. It’s kind of a family thing.”Collin Barnes said he got into CrossFit training after COVID-19, but he was a runner first.“In grad school, I discovered that I could run long distances,” he said. “I was in rural Oklahoma near Sallisaw, as I recall — the middle of nowhere. I was working a job tagging an endangered species of beetle for the University of Oklahoma’s museum of natural history. There was a lot of downtime in the afternoons. We’d drive a long stretch of highway to get to the worksite. One day I thought I’d try to run it. It was about 8 miles round-trip.”Barnes said his wife encouraged him to try something new, and that the difference in workouts has allowed him to make serious gains in his strength and mobility that he hopes will let him be active with his grandchildren one day.“My wife got me into CrossFit exercises, and I discovered that’s a different world,” Barnes said. “You can be great at running, and you can really suck at being cardiovascularly fit enough to move weight rapidly. The more you do one repetitive motion over and over again, the less ability you have to do other things.”The two began training together, and now their daughters join them in the gym.“All my daughters are physically active, and it’s become something that we kind of bond around,” Barnes said. Barnes said they like to make fun of how much they love the sport and the fact that they sometimes watch The CrossFit Games like football.“Isn’t it kind of stupid that we do so much working out?” Barnes joked. “I think it’s good to try to remain as lighthearted as you can — we enjoy it.”</div></body>

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The heat one competitors after the competition with student trainers. The Collegian | Bristol Whitley. In just 27 minutes, 17 seconds, Associate Professor of Psychology Collin Barnes completed almost two miles of a medicine ball run and more than 100 burpee pull-ups, setting a record at the Gallant Fitness Challenge Nov. 7.

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