Physical Fitness
📋 What it is
Fitness has parts — endurance (heart & lungs), strength, and flexibility — and kids need about 60 active minutes a day.
🗣️ Coach says
Being "fit" isn’t one thing. Endurance is your heart and lungs going strong (running, biking); strength is muscles (climbing, push-ups); flexibility is bending and stretching. Aiming for around an hour of movement a day — play counts! — keeps all three growing. Movement also boosts mood and focus, not just muscles.
🧠 Memory hook
Fitness = endurance + strength + flexibility. Aim ~60 active minutes a day — and play counts.
😂 Giggle
My muscles are sore from yesterday's workout. They're sending me angry messages.
Through my nerves.
😲 Whoa!
Exercise releases chemicals that lift your mood and sharpen focus — a workout helps your brain, not just your body.
✅ Quick check: What three parts make up physical fitness?
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
Endurance (heart & lungs), strength (muscles), and flexibility.
Fitness is built from these complementary components.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Do 2 minutes of each: something that puffs you (endurance), something strong, something stretchy. Feel the difference.