FITNESS IDEAS
FITNESS CIRCUIT
Create a fitness circuit. List 6 different exercises (e.g. jumping jacks, squats, burpees). Decide on the number of reps you will do of each. How many times can you make it through your circuit in 5 minutes? Record your results and track over the week. Do your results change? HEART MONITOR Calculate how many times your heart beats in a minute (#beats per 10 seconds x 6). Do 50 jumping jacks. Check your heart rate again? Is it faster or slower? By how much? Why do you think it changes? Try another exercise and take your heart rate again. Is there a difference? RUN CHALLENGE Choose a good distance for you to run. Time yourself when you run. If possible, videotape yourself. How long did you take? What muscles do you think you use when you run? What happens to your heart rate when you run? WEEK-LONG WALKING CHALLENGE Use Google Earth or Google Maps to chart a distance your family wants to walk over the course of the week. For example: Challenge your family to walk from here to Niagara Falls. How long would that take? How many kilometers is the trip? If you go for a 30-minute walk how many kilometers will you cover? How many family members do you have that will contribute to this? How many days will it take for you to get there? Create a chart to track the distance walked by each family member each day to track when you have reached your goal. ROUNDS This can be done indoors or outdoors. Do as many rounds as possible in 15 minutes: 15 Jumping Jacks, 15 High Knees, 15 Squats, 15 Butt Kicks. STEP COMPARISON Go on a walk with your family. Choose a distance to walk and have all family members count the number of steps it takes them to walk that distance. Record the numbers. Who took the most steps? Who took the least? Why? What was the average number of steps? OBSTACLE COURSE Go on a walk with your family. Choose a distance to walk and have all family members count the number of steps it takes them to walk that distance. Record the numbers. Who took the most steps? Who took the least? Why? What was the average number of steps? PLAYING CARDS Get a deck of cards (or make cards on small pieces of paper). As a family take turns drawing a card, you must do the exercise that goes with the suit and the number of reps according to the number on the card. Spades: Jumping Jacks, Hearts: Burpees, Clubs: Squats, Diamonds: Push ups, Kings: Sing A song, Queens: Do your best dance moves, Jacks: Act like you are in an air band |