Along with the deepening of reform of physical education in Chinese colleges, people realized that the development of intelligence and physical strength are equally important. Orienteering is integrating health and wisdom of popular fitness programs, and gets into college sports classroom in recent years. This thesis takes first-year undergraduate students of Shijiazhuang University of Economics as the research object, studying from the perspective of speed, endurance, strength, power, etc, using the methods of documentary, teaching experiment, mathematical statistics and comparative analysis method, vertical and horizontal contrasting the physical quality indexes of samples before and after the experiment. The study finds the improving effect of directional cross-country class of students' physical quality, and reveals the advantages and disadvantages of it by comparing with the traditional project teaching.