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For the Love of Exercise – February Fitness Challenge
The trusty JUMP ROPE once again grabs the spotlight for February’s Flourish with Fitness Challenge. For the Love of Exercise is designed to increase awareness of all the benefits from jumping rope. Jump rope is one of the most effective cardiovascular exercises. Along with benefits to the heart, jump rope also enhances coordination, agility, and strengthens bones, arms, legs, and core.
For the Love of Exercise also offers other exercises to help enhance full body fitness. Throughout the month, participants will be challenged with exercises including plank, squats, and burpees, where the degree of difficulty gradually increases week by week.
The workouts posted on the calendar can be adapted to fit the fitness level of each participant. Students may need to perform fewer repetitions on a given day due to fatigue or if they’re physically not ready.
This workout is an excellent opportunity for jump rope beginners to strengthen their jump rope ability. I encourage beginner jumpers to persevere. If you put in a little work each day, your ability will increase steadily. For the advanced jumpers, you are encouraged to push yourselves and even try the more difficult challenges demonstrated in the video below.
CHECK THIS OUT! Below is a Blowing off S.T.E.A.M project I created for my students. Here, they are challenged to use available household materials to create their own jump rope.
(Click Blowing Off STEAM in PE for an editable copy of the challenge!)
Click For the Love of Exercise for access to the challenge.
Click CERTIFICATE for access to the FOR the LOVE of EXERCISE participation certificate.
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Love this! Do you have a corresponding editable certificate you would share?
Working on it. Will upload soon.
Thanks for all you do. I’ve been teaching 30 years and love all the fun new ideas I’ve seen and used from your site.
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Do you create your own calendars?
I do. Been creating them for the last three years.
Thank you for inspiring so many teachers! I am looking forward to incorporating your fitness calendars and certificates into my PE program!
Would you be ok if I used the editable Feb Challenge to create something to keep my daughter’s figure skating club active while all the practice is shut down? I can source you as the creator or that what I edit is based off of your ideas/website?
No problem! I also just posted the Build a Better Push-up challenge! Check it out on my site.