Congratulations to our winner, Ashley Pawloski! Check back on the blog on Monday for a few of the many awesome ideas you submitted! 🙂
Alrighty, friends. So many of you have asked where I got my shoes, featured in this pic here. Once again, Reebok?they hit it out of the park with these classic style, fashionable wedge-tennies. I am in love with the Reebok Women’s AK Wedge!
You can sport some too!! Leave a comment on this blog sharing your favorite exercise to do with your kids (or any kids!). I?ll test out these exercises with my own kiddos, pick my fave, and send the winner a pair. Contest ends at 11:59 pm EST Thursday, March 27, 2014, and the lucky winner will be announced on Friday, March 28, 2014.
Comment away!!!
Heidi 🙂
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Our favorite exercise is on the trampoline. We take turns showing a trick and then the other person has to do it. Bum wars are a favorite. Then we add. Bum, knee, back, knee up. My 3 year old and 5 year old love it. Then we each pick a color of Power Ranger and show our ninja moves as we bounce. Try that!
My favorite exercise is running beside my son on his skateboard.
I love running with my 2 year old. These shoes would be awesome to do it in!
My 3 year old is very active. We enjoy playing soccer in our backyard together. She also participates in gymnastics. I used to participate with her, but now she is in the older class where mommy watches from the sidelines;)
We put our son in the iBert safe-t seat front mounted to our beach cruisers (no gears) and ride up the hills through our neighborhood. Great cardio & leg workout! Even have to get off the bike and walk it uphill it’s so hard. Wind blowing in his face, taking in the great weather. He loves it! We love it! 🙂
When I go Jogging with my one year old daughter ( in the stroller) I switch it up by parking the stroller and jogging backwards(still facing her so I can see her) about 10-15 meters. And then I say “ready go”, or “I coming after you” playfully as she cheers and I sprint towards her. I love this exercise because I don’t have a gym membership and it is hard to do cardio otherwise with an active child and she feels like she is a part of it. I also know she is safe and cant get hurt. After doing that 10 times I am spent, she had a good time playing mini referee and I can take her out of the stroller so she can walk a little or she can just ride back.
I have Popsicle sticks with different exercises written on them. The kids pick the sticks and we do a few sets of them. Their second favorite is the deck of cards workout that we do at the park using playground equipment.
Many of the exercises I do with the kids are on the Wii, like baseball and bowling.
Another one we do we call “Bear Crawls.” You just try walking with both your hands and feet on the floor/ground for about 5 minutes at a time.
The other thing we do is jump rope — two of us hold the rope and the third one jumps in it. Just like back in school.
I must say that my favorite form of exercise to do with kids is to set up an obstacle course in the backyard or even at a local park…it can be made as creative as possible and adjusted to any level of difficulty! For example, there could be jump ropes, jumping backs, hurdles, relays (bunny hop races),hula hoops, ball or balloon toss. It keeps things constantly flowing and the kids do not get bored or lose their focus because they are having fun!
I have to agree that having huge dance parties with kids is a good form of exercise. Personally, I have dance parties with my niece to the dancing episode of the television show Yo Gabba Gabba, as well as the CD Casper BabyPants. We have so much fun and it gets your heart pumping!
My 9yrs old daighter like to encourage me to do some exercise because she said mami you can do it.I help you.i star loose some wheight 6 months ago i lost 30 pounds and she said see we can do togheter.she is my rock