The Presidential Fitness Challenge
September 17, 2009
Developed by the Government of the United States and Presidential fitness Challenge encourages all to take in particular the children regular exercise routines to ward off illness, disease and obesity. Considering that 58 million Americans are overweight, and a large percentage of illnesses and diseases due to lack of exercise or an unhealthy diet plan, this is a great effort to move people. Those who give themselves to the challenge and show an excellence in physical activity will be rewarded with an achievement medal.
The challenge focuses less on the type of activity you choose, and more on how well you perform and how you are always motivated by the time you finish. After the challenge, each individual from some type of physical activity for a certain time each day, 5 days per week, for 6 weeks.
The amount of exercise varies from child to adult, children should practice an hour, while the adults can to reduce their time to 30 minutes per day, however, elders are encouraged to exercise more, if at all possible. Activity recorded and considered for the award after a thorough analysis and comparison with other services.
Every spring and fall, students in grades 3-5 participate in the Presidential Fitness Challenge. For them, the challenge is usually five rounds, examining the student's physical abilities against different benchmarks. The purpose of this process is to test their stamina and motivate the pupils, the challenge to improve by the time the end of the five parts challenge.
In the five parts will be those who will lend more than 90% improvement in each area score, the Presidential Fitness Award and students, reward the achievement of 50% or more in each of the five parts of the National Fitness Award. The five parts in the Presidential Fitness Challenge include:
Curl-ups or crunches: Students fastened down flat on your back with both feet on the ground and then raise the back completely from the ground for a short duration. The challenge in its whole, as many curl-ups you can do in one minute. This exercise tests and build abdominal strength and endurance.
Distance Running: A walk a mile, where time is taken by each student noted. For 8-9 years, the distance is half a mile. The purpose of this challenge is to measure the cardiovascular endurance of each student. Students are encouraged to improve their time, as each week passes.
Sit-n-reach: The students sit with their feet against a sit-n-box, to reach and stretch as far as possible to achieve at the test lead. This is to test the flexibility. Again and again, this exercise will greatly improve flexibility.
Shuttle Run: The challenge of measuring the time taken by each student running for 30 yards from a starting line, take a bean bag from the other end and then bring it back to the starting point. This process is repeated twice. Participants coordination and speed is tested at this challenge.
Pull-ups: Students are required to not have as many ups as it moves in a certain time. This makes the upper body strength of the individual participants.
The performance of each student is recorded daily for each challenge, and reward the best of the performers at the end of the challenge.
Adults may participate in the challenge and to learn, however, the plan some changes. The goals are similar to the children, and the same frequency must be maintained, but, as already mentioned, is only 30 minutes long instead of an hour. Also, because adults no longer in school and have no one who will test them to keep it a protocol on the status and monitor themselves for improvements.
Editor Tips
Winning is not the answer! On this day, I've seen my best performance ever. I have all the 1st Squares of all the judges-a clean sweep. I had not exceeded on that day, but it was to win that defines success for me. It was not a clean slate either. It was the fact that I live one step to enable me and the life on my own terms.
Core strength or physical power center, as I would call it, allows us to deceive. This strength we can stabilize our core and to work the muscles around the nucleus. Most people must insist on a flat, stable surface against.
There are also foods that are naturally high in cholesterol such as egg yolk, but it is still unclear whether this cholesterol is actually bad for you or not. Cutting back on these foods or eliminating from your diet all together, in general, the recommended procedure when it is with high cholesterol.
The challenge focuses less on the type of activity you choose, and more on how well you perform and how you are always motivated by the time you finish. After the challenge, each individual from some type of physical activity for a certain time each day, 5 days per week, for 6 weeks.
The amount of exercise varies from child to adult, children should practice an hour, while the adults can to reduce their time to 30 minutes per day, however, elders are encouraged to exercise more, if at all possible. Activity recorded and considered for the award after a thorough analysis and comparison with other services.
Every spring and fall, students in grades 3-5 participate in the Presidential Fitness Challenge. For them, the challenge is usually five rounds, examining the student's physical abilities against different benchmarks. The purpose of this process is to test their stamina and motivate the pupils, the challenge to improve by the time the end of the five parts challenge.
In the five parts will be those who will lend more than 90% improvement in each area score, the Presidential Fitness Award and students, reward the achievement of 50% or more in each of the five parts of the National Fitness Award. The five parts in the Presidential Fitness Challenge include:
Curl-ups or crunches: Students fastened down flat on your back with both feet on the ground and then raise the back completely from the ground for a short duration. The challenge in its whole, as many curl-ups you can do in one minute. This exercise tests and build abdominal strength and endurance.
Distance Running: A walk a mile, where time is taken by each student noted. For 8-9 years, the distance is half a mile. The purpose of this challenge is to measure the cardiovascular endurance of each student. Students are encouraged to improve their time, as each week passes.
Sit-n-reach: The students sit with their feet against a sit-n-box, to reach and stretch as far as possible to achieve at the test lead. This is to test the flexibility. Again and again, this exercise will greatly improve flexibility.
Shuttle Run: The challenge of measuring the time taken by each student running for 30 yards from a starting line, take a bean bag from the other end and then bring it back to the starting point. This process is repeated twice. Participants coordination and speed is tested at this challenge.
Pull-ups: Students are required to not have as many ups as it moves in a certain time. This makes the upper body strength of the individual participants.
The performance of each student is recorded daily for each challenge, and reward the best of the performers at the end of the challenge.
Adults may participate in the challenge and to learn, however, the plan some changes. The goals are similar to the children, and the same frequency must be maintained, but, as already mentioned, is only 30 minutes long instead of an hour. Also, because adults no longer in school and have no one who will test them to keep it a protocol on the status and monitor themselves for improvements.
Editor Tips
Winning is not the answer! On this day, I've seen my best performance ever. I have all the 1st Squares of all the judges-a clean sweep. I had not exceeded on that day, but it was to win that defines success for me. It was not a clean slate either. It was the fact that I live one step to enable me and the life on my own terms.
Core strength or physical power center, as I would call it, allows us to deceive. This strength we can stabilize our core and to work the muscles around the nucleus. Most people must insist on a flat, stable surface against.
There are also foods that are naturally high in cholesterol such as egg yolk, but it is still unclear whether this cholesterol is actually bad for you or not. Cutting back on these foods or eliminating from your diet all together, in general, the recommended procedure when it is with high cholesterol.
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