Students must keep a log of physical fitness activities being completed at home. Students can email me what activities they have completed.

Example activities: walking , running, biking, aerobics, strength training, dancing, soccer, baseball, etc...anything you are doing to stay active.

Whole-body, equipment-free workout: Choose one or two exercises and keep a log of whatever physical fitness activity you are completing each week

The benefits of this first one, requiring no equipment, include “increasing heart rate, improving circulation, stimulating mental focus, boosting metabolism and fat burning, increasing the after burn, improved muscle and cardiovascular endurance and stretching, as well as a strengthening benefit for beginners,”

Warm-up: Two minutes, walking up and down stairs or stepping up and down on a single step with five-pound weights in each hand (soup cans or bags of rocks could work)

Click on underlined activity for a complete description of the exercise

Exercises: 20 reps each:

Squats

Split squats (one leg in front of the other)

Push-ups (alternatively: on your knees)

Dips (use a chair)

Plank while tapping alternate knees to floor

Bicycle crunch

Straight-leg sit-ups

Mountain climbers (like lunges from a plank position)

Cool-down: Two minutes of active stretching, including downward dog to child’s pose, and/or alternating leg lunges with overhead reach-behind