Move More Minutes!
Let’s add more movement into our day.
Here is a guide to help you find activities to move more throughout the day.
How much time do you have?
20 minutes or less:
- Self-Care Sunday
- Lower Body Move Mondays
- Try It Tuesday
- Upper Body Work Wednesday
- Game Day Thursday
- Fun Fact Friday
- Sport Specific Saturday
10 minutes or less:
- Team Challenge
- Grab a deck of cards. (Phase 10 is our favorite for this game) Read and do!
- Holiday Hustle
- Read and do!
- Pyramid Power
- Read and do!
- Partner Power
- Grab a partner. Play the video and follow along.
- Tabata Together
- Play the video and follow along.
- Deck the Halls Challenge
- Grab a deck of cards. Read and do!
5 minutes or less:
- Movement Break Series (10 different seated or standing options)
- You Go, I Go!
- Grad a partner or assign a leader. Watch or Read and DO!
- EMOJI Challenge (update information on there)
- Read and do!
- Super Hero Challenge
- Read and do!
- Jump Up, Jump Up & Get Down!
- Read and do!
- Plank Challenge
- Read and do!
- Ghostbusters Challenge
- Play the Ghostbuster song on YouTube. Every time you hear the word Ghost, do a burpee)
- Circuit Circus
- Play the video and follow along.
- Throwback Fitness
- Get a partner. Read and do!
1 Minute or less:
- Go, Slow & Whoa Challenge
- Fueling with the right foods can make your body perform better.
- Try to commit to eating 5 fruits and veggies each day.
- How to Squat
- 10 perfect squats together as a class.
- What muscles can you feel you are working?
- Quads, hamstrings, calves, glutes or core (abdominals and low back).
- How to Plank
- Survivor Challenge who can maintain the plank the longest with good form?
- How to do a Burpee
- How many burpees can you do in a minute?
- Take your heart rate before starting and immediately following the minute.
- Count your heart beats for 10 seconds x 6 = Heart Rate
- This helps you understand how hard your body (heart) is working.
- Take your heart rate before starting and immediately following the minute.
- How many burpees can you do in a minute?
- How to do a Kneeling Superman
- Perform 10 Kneeling Supermans. Slow and steady to maintain balance.
- What muscles do you feel working?
- Shoulders, hamstrings, abdominals, low back
- What muscles do you feel working?
- Perform 10 Kneeling Supermans. Slow and steady to maintain balance.
- Done in 60 Seconds Challenge
- Use these 4, 1 minute activities at the beginning of the week and at the end. See if you are able to improve your score!
- Which exercises do you enjoy?
- Which exercises do you not enjoy?
- Use these 4, 1 minute activities at the beginning of the week and at the end. See if you are able to improve your score!
- How to do Mountain Climbers
- How many Mountain Climbers can you do in a minute?
- Take your heart rate before starting and immediately following the minute.
- Count your heart beats for 10 seconds x 6 = Heart Rate
- This helps give you an idea of how hard your body (heart) is working!
- How to do a Modified Push-Up
- Perform 10 Modified Push-Ups. Talk about the muscles you feel working.
- Chest, Arms and Core.
- Perform 10 Modified Push-Ups. Talk about the muscles you feel working.
- How to do a Lunge
- Perform 5 lunges on each leg. How can you make these harder or easier?
- Harder - More repetitions, add weight, do them faster or put your hands above your head.
- Easier - Less repetitions, hold onto a chair or wall for balance or do them slower.
- Perform 5 lunges on each leg. How can you make these harder or easier?
- How to do a Shoulder Bridge
- Perform 10 Shoulder Bridges using good form.
- What muscles do you feel working?
- Glutes, Hamstrings, Low Back, Abdominals, Quads
- What muscles do you feel working?
- Perform 10 Shoulder Bridges using good form.