How To Do Plyometrics For Kids Video

Plyometrics are a great way to keep your kids in shape and off the couch. Learn how to do plyometric exercises with your children in this exercise video for parents and children.

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Children exercise in bursts
Create a game
Bend knees
Explosive moves

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Known as the trainers' trainer, Carol Ann has 19 years of professional fitness training experience, a Master's degree in Exercise Science and Health Promotion, and CEC provider status with AFAA and ACE. She holds current fitness certifications including Group X Instructor, Personal Trainer, Pilates, Yoga, Aqua Fitness, Kickboxing, and Lifestyle Fitness Coaching. Carol Ann has traveled nationally and internationally training fitness professionals, presenting certifications and workshops, and sharing her knowledge for specific training techniques and application. Along with various fitness training DVD's, she is the creator and star of the fitness DVD series called The Steel Physique System. She also is a freelance fitness expert writer for several publications. In 2008 she is launching Studio Group X, a premier state-of-the-art group exercise studio in North Tampa, FL. The focus is to engage her clients into leading healthy lifestyles for a lifetime through an educational and fun process.

CAROLANN, CERT. FITNESS INSTRUCTOR: This is how you do plyometrics for kids. Now if you've ever watched children on a playground, very rarely are they continuing in an endurance type of activity. They really like to do bouts of exercise or burst of energy. So what you want to do is you want to emulate any type of exercise like children play. So with plyometrics, what that is - is that's a burst of a movement, so you want to shorten those muscles and then just explode with a lot of energy. So in order to get kids engaged in a type of exercise like that, you need to create some sort of game or make it really fun for them so that they can imagine that they are playing as opposed to really exercising. So one little thing that you can do is you can grab a jump rope, put it on the floor, and then make it like it's a little snake and they have to jump over the snake. You can make it high, you can make it low, and so they have to continue to jump back and forth over the jump rope. Next, you can use a mat and then you can pretend that this is like a swimming pool and they have to jump over the swimming pool. Really nice, big movements and make sure that when you're doing any type of plyometric exercises, whether you're an adult or a kid, you want to make sure that you bend your knees for shock absorption or you can even used both legs. Now make it fun, make it like a competition, like the person who touches the water the less or the least amount of times. So make it really fun, explosive types of moves and they are going to burn a lot of calories and they're going to sleep well that night. So make it fun, make it high in energy, short bouts of energy.

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