children and obesity

It is no secret that today's youth is fat.  The most important lesson to teach our youth is to get up and move!! This weeks lesson is for the 6-8th graders.

When your children get home from school and you are ready to get movin' explain to them the importance of a warm up.  Make sure that you go over all the vocabulary with your children.  After all, with all the budget cuts at the schools our children are not getting enough PE.   Remember, as parents, we are teachers too.  The more we are involved in our childrens education, the higher the success rate will be.  Their self esteem level will rise, their grades will rise and they will also become more physically fit.

Let's get started: You may also choose to make flash cards for your child as well.
 A slow, rhythmic exercise that uses the larger muscle groups of the body.

Warm-Up –

A method used to stretch the muscles and their

Dynamic Stretch –

surrounding tissue, which includes moving through a full, fluid, non-resistive range-of-motion.

A low-force stretch that serves to lengthen the muscle while holding it to a point of tension for 15-30 seconds

Static Stretch –

You all can do examples of the stretches:

Including you Mom or Dad,

Dynamic Warm-up

• March in place

• Knee lifts in place

• Walking

• Jumping Jacks

• Torso twists (twist from right to left)

• Arm circles/Alternating arm circles

Static Stretches

• Lying down (supine) hamstring stretch

• Triceps stretch

• Shoulder stretch

• Upper-back stretch

• Chest stretch

• Standing quadriceps stretch

• Lateral side stretch

Exercise for today:

10 minute walk/run
1 minute push up
1 minute chair squat
1 minute knee curl ups

Be sure to reinforce the vocabulary today.  The most important is that while doing the lesson is that you do it with your child/ren and that you all have fun while doing it together.