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20 Ways to Be More Physically Active Today
(Get more steps!)
For Kids |
- Get up and move to 3 of your favorite songs.
- Take your dog (or your friend’s dog) for a walk.
- Walk to your friend’s house, or ride your bike, rather than asking for a ride.
- If your parent takes you to school, ask them to drop you off a block or more away and “walk” to school.
- Map out a “Walking Course” in your house, and add up your steps.
- Shoot a few hoops!
- Go for a walk with a friend or family member. Take a plastic bag with you and pick up all the trash you see.
- Jump rope to your favorite music. See how many times you can jump without missing.
- Ride your bike for 15-20 minutes
- Participate in your favorite outdoor game (kickball, wiffleball, Frisbee, tag, etc).
- Hang a sheet on a line outside. Practice kickboxing while trying to “kick” the center of the sheet.
Take three steps between each kick.
- With a partner, dribble a soccer ball around the play area for 2 minutes. If your partner is able to kick the ball
away, he gets a point for each successful “kick away”. Switch roles.
- If you’re watching a TV show, get up and move (walk or run in place, do jumping
jacks, walk around the house, etc) during every commercial.
- See how many times you can crawl under and over your bed in 5 minutes.
- Clean your room with some energetic music playing.
- Take a walk with a family member after dinner.
- Give your dog a bath.
- If you have a Sony Playstation, play Dance Dance Revolution!
- Draw a hopscotch board with chalk on the sidewalk, and hop, hop, hop!
- Stack up books in three stacks in a row on the floor. Jump over them as many times as you can in 1 minute.
See if you can beat your record.
*Trivia Tidbit:The average person takes about 3,000 steps a day – far below the recommend
10,000. Ancient man used to take about 30,000 steps a day to hunt for food.
20 Ways to Be More Physically Active Today - Kids
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