20 Ideas To Get Fit
These are just a few ideas to get you thinking. Some are for parents, some for kids and others for both. Let us know your ideas for getting fit and you can win an Ian Wright signed T-shirt.
- Walk faster than usual
- Run the last 100 metres to the school gate
- Celebrate your birthday by inviting your friends and doing something active such as a playing 5-A-side football
- Challenge your parents to see who can do the most press-ups, dance the longest or walk the most steps in a set time
- Deliberately pick days out where you know you've got to walk quite a lot such as going to the zoo
- If you've got a garden ask your parents for your own little area where you can plant, feed and weed the flowers and vegetables you like
- Push the stroller a little faster than normal
- Teach your child your favourite sport
- Get off the bus one stop early and walk the last bit
- Learn yoga with your children
- Take the stairs rather than the lift or escalator
- Park further away in the supermarket car park so you have to walk further to the store
- Build and fly your own kite together
- Learn to juggle and then teach your children
- Go back to basics and play the games of your childhood with your children – hide and seek, hopscotch, catch
- Set aside a part of the garden that's for games and play only so there's no worry about damaging the flowers or the lawn
- Sometimes take the dog for a jog rather than a walk
- Teach your children your favourite dance
- Get an allotment – you can grow your own food so saving money and getting better produce, get exercise at the same time and get your children to help
- Take a look at our Find a Sports Club contacts.