January/February's Family Finess Challenge winner!
New Year, New Challenge!! This is a fun and creative way for you and your famiy to get healthy and fit without any equipment and in the comfort of your home. Spell your full name and do each excercise that correlates with the letters in your name!
November's Family Fitness Challenger!!! what did she win: a basketball, a soccer ball, a yoga mat, a yoga DVD, yoga socks and headband a water bottle 😀👍
This is Floradale's first Family Fitness Challenge winner!!!! Congratulations to Manahil and her family who won a soccer ball, basketball, yoga mat and kids yoga DVD and a water bottle!!!! I hope that more families participate this month and have a chance to win more amazing prizes. The family fitness tickets are outside the gym doors. Don't forget to get yours.
In 2013, 42 million infants and young children were overweight or obese world wide and 70 million young children will be overweight or obese by the year 2025 if current trends persist!!!!!!!! Reading over this I cannot believe it!!! These children will not only have issues with the societal pressures of what is beautiful, but their chances of getting premature diabetes or heart disease is greatly increased, not to mention how it will effect their self esteem. As a teacher for ten years, I have seen how children who are overweight are treated by other students. I have seen how many of them feel uncomfortable in their own skin and feel inadequate in phys-ed and I have seen sadly how it has a negative impact on their self esteem and self confidence. As a parent now with two kids of my own, it is so important to me more than ever to eat healthier and workout and be more physically fit as I want to be a positive role model to my children and provide them with good habits to continue for their lifetime. Now being a phys-ed teacher, I want to provide many opportunities for my students to be active and I want you as a family to get active together. In saying that, I have created a family fitness challenge for every month. Every month your child will come home with a ticket that has a variety of physical challenges for your whole family to participate in. If you complete a certain amount of them by the end of the month you will be put into the draw and you will be eligible to win a prize!
Some at home sites and apps that are really good for exercise/dance/yoga for kids are:
sworkit kids
Go noodle
cosmic yoga
just dance
7 minute workouts with lazy monsters
super stretch kids yoga
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