Fitness should be a part of everyone's daily life. Parents can do a few basic things to help their
children become more active including: develop awareness about fitness, set goals with your
children for
activity levels, give them praise for their efforts and lead by example!
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Today's tip is on how to increase your cardiovascular endurance! This is a
key element of fitness and should be a part of your daily life.
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Have your child run on the spot.
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Pump their arms up and down as they go! |
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These are basic ‘jumping jacks'.
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Touch the ground, and then explode up with a vertical jump as high as you can!
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Reaching up as you jump |
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Now we do an “endurance blitz”
• Have your child ‘run on the spot' for 30 seconds
• Then perform jumping jacks for 30 seconds
• Then perform 10 explosions!
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• These activities are meant to be done as a pair, and therefore you may spend time exercising with your child! Count them out with them and make a game out of it. See how many sets of 10 repetitions of each move you can do in a one minute window! Then each week increase the time by 30 seconds!
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• Today we learned three basic endurance exercises. They may be done on their own, or put together in combination like we demonstrated today.
• It should be every family member's goal
to integrate fitness into their daily lives.
• Study's show that children spend up to 5 hours per day watching TV and playing on the computer!
Try this at home: when your children are watching TV, keep an eye on the clock, and every 10 minutes or so have them get up and do an ‘endurance blitz' for 60 seconds. |
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This week's fit tips are brought to you by
Sensei Tallack and Jenny! |
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