Week 5, Day1

This week focuses on body training, and teaching the girls that it's ok to push ourselves and feel some discomfort.  We also want to teach them how to pace themselves, and hold back from all-out effort so that they can sustain something for a longer period of time.

We taught the girls how to check their heart rate.  This way they can slow down if their heart rate gets to high in order to enable their bodies to sustain an activity for longer.

We then had the girls do various activities for one minute at a time, and then record their heart rate after each activity to get an idea for which activities made them work the hardest.

We tested jumping rope...

Dancing...

Hopping on one foot...

Doing inch worms...

Clapping...

Toe touches...

Jumping Jacks...

Skipping...

And Hula Hooping...

After each activity we had the girls measure their heart rate, and then they did a journal activity to record the highest and lowest heart rates, their favorite activity, and which was the hardest.

After the heart rate activity, the girls ran.  The goal was 8 laps today, but we ran short on time, and it was very cold, so I don't think most of them finished all 8 laps.  We will run again Wednesday!