I was recently inspired by Dr. Kwame Brown, Executive Director for the International Youth Conditioning Association. He suggested to the IYCA members a couple fun, active games he plays with his young students. This particular video shows one of these games and is adapted to my smaller children (ages 5 and 3), who don’t get the concept yet of holding onto a rope and keeping their bodies on the towel (wakeboard style).

They really insisted on sitting together, which made it impossible for them to be on the towel in different positions.  So, I pulled them around and got a great burst of exercise in while they had to stabilize themselves on the towel.  Most importantly, we all had a great time.  Isn’t that what exercise should be?  How can you adapt this for your children? Next time, I’m trying a slightly different method to get them to move around more. And I’ll be sure to post a little video…