Are you looking for a FUN way to exercise?  At weight loss camp, you learn that exercise can be fun and enjoyable.  Here, I’d like to show you that you can have the same fun exercising at home

Ask your parents if you can set up your very own obstacle course!  If the weather is nice, the backyard will do, but you can do this indoors as well, you just have to be creative.

What you’ll need:

A stack of large index cards
Marker
Timer (stopwatch) 
Any sort of equipment that you can find:  Jump rope, stability ball, gallon jugs filled with water, balls, rope, cones, bean bags…anything that you can find and be creative with.

Now, take the index cards and write certain activities for each station that you’ll set up.  You can write things like:

Jump rope 40 jumps
Jog in place for one minute
Jumping Jacks (50)
Sit-ups (10)
Push-ups (10)
Lift Weights (the gallon jugs with water)

Any type of exercise that you’ve learned in gym class or at a fitness camp will do.

In between the stations, set up an obstacle.  Be creative here.  Use ropes that you have to jump over or bean bags that you have to step on to cross over the pretend Amazon River (filled with piranha… watch out!)  In the house, maybe you have to climb a mountain (the stairs) or hop around a tree (chair).

If you have brothers and sisters that can join you, make it a competition.  If not, compete against yourself to see how quickly you can get through the course five or ten times (depending on how long your course is).

Exercise doesn’t have to be boring or seem like work.  Make it fun, make it your own… just do it!  Just make sure you clean up your obstacle course when you’re finished so your parents will let you do this again!