Monday Fitness Classes! (pm)

Starting Monday, January 21, the grade 5/6 class will be participating in weekly fitness classes. These classes are aimed to increase strength and muscle endurance. About half of the exercises will require just the student's body weight (e.g. squats, lunges, sit-ups  push-ups) but the other half require some form of weight to act as resistance (e.g biceps, triceps, shoulders).

I am asking students to bring in 6 cans to act as weights: two small cans (like soup cans), two medium cans (like canned tomatoes), and two large cans (like apple juice). These cans will be kept in the class until the end of the project. At that time, the cans may either be returned home or donated to the Kanata Food Cupboard.

The goal of this project is increase muscular strength in a safe way. The focus is on muscle endurance, not on strength. We will be stressing proper technique while completing the exercises so that if students wanted to continue exercising (weight training) at home, they will be doing the exercises properly.

I do expect students to be sore following the first couple of sessions but as they build the muscle, their recovery time will decrease - I know I was sore after yesterday's introduction to squats and lunges!