How To Stay Fit: 6 Exercises To Do As A Family
Are you going crazy at home with nothing to do and your children have too much energy? Is it raining or snowing and your children can’t play outside to burn energy?
As a family, we have been working out together. It’s a time when our children can get exercise, and expend energy, and we parents can keep fit.
It doesn’t matter if we have no equipment because we can use our body as the weight and do bodyweight exercises. The nice thing about these exercises is we don’t need a lot of space. All you need is enough space for one person to do a push-up. Then just take turns doing the exercises and cheer each other on. If you do have space for the entire family, make it a group effort. Don’t forget to count out loud so everybody in your family can do it at the same time. So without further due, please find below six exercises.
1. 10 Jumping jacks
Directions: Start with feet together. Jump feet apart about shoulder width and clap hands above your head at the same time. Then jump into attention by bringing your feet back together and bringing your hands down.
2. 10 Bur-pees
Directions: Start standing. Then squat to the floor and put your hands onto the floor, then keep your weight onto your hands and jump your feet out to push up position. Afterward, bring your feet back in so that you are back to squatting, and then jump as high as you can.
- 10 Squat Jumps
Directions: Start standing with feet about shoulder-width apart. Put hands on your hips and squat down like you are going to sit on a chair. Once you can not go any lower, jump as high as you can and reach for the sky.
- 10 Ski Jumps
Directions: Start with your feet together and your arms bent like you are holding ski poles. Then imagine a line in the middle of you. Hop both feet at the same time to the right and then hop to the left and keep going back and forth.
- Lunge Jumps
Directions: Start standing with one foot in front and knee bent. The back leg is straight but not locked out. Keep your hands on your hips and jump and switch your feet. Now go back and forth while alternating your lunge and feet.
- 10 High Knees
Directions: Start standing with your arms bent and your hands palms facing the floor. Bring one knee to one hand and then hop and bring the other knee up to the other hand. Go back and forth while jumping and alternate knees
Below is a video we made of the exercises so you can follow along.
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