Keeping Active at Home
Home Workout for Children
Here is a fun workout led by Mr Scholes and Emily (Coach at HS Sports Camp). It can be done indoors or in the garden.
7 different exercises (jog on the spot, squats, climb the rope, star jumps, lunges, mountain climbers and toe taps on the football).
30 seconds work - 30 seconds rest.
Repeat 3 times!
Give it a go
Useful Links
Please make use of these website links to keep yourself active at home:
https://family.gonoodle.com/ - This website is free to sign up to.
https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1 - The Body Coach has some great workouts for children.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bql6sIU2A7k - The children really enjoy the 'Sally Up Sally Down' Squat Challenge. See if you can find some other versions on You Tube.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0Vlhde7N5uGDIF
XXWWEbFQ - This You Tube channel has lots of Just Dance videos to dance along to.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/nhs-fitness-studio/ - The NHS website has lots of different guidance and videos for how to keep fit.
Live PE Lessons
Joe Wicks (The Body Coach) has lots of workouts called "PE with Joe" on his YouTube channel The Body Coach TV.
https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1
It's a 30-minute workout specifically designed for kids to get them moving, fit and energised, positive and optimistic. You won't need a lot of room and it includes lots of basic exercises.
Get involved and have fun!
How to keep yourself and your kids active during self-isolation:
- Go to the local park, or any open green area for a walk together, a cycle, a scoot.
- Walk around the local neighbourhood.
- Bring some chalk outside and draw hopscotch markings, have a game.
- Teach your child to skip or have a skipping competition.
- Challenge your child to teach you a new skill or activity that they learned in PE class at school.
- Grab a football, basketball or even a tennis ball. Be creative with the amount of different ways you can play with this. Throw it, bounce it, kick it: your child will come up with lots of ideas if you ask them.
- Be active in the house too. There are lots of things you can do, from active video gaming to games like Twister or any of the websites above.
Do remember to keep building in activity that really involves you and your child moving your whole body as this will give you heart health benefits as well as skill development benefits. Again, you can do this outside your front door, in the back garden or even better, in a large open green area such as a park or big field if you are lucky enough to be able to access one.