Health and Wellness
Giving you motivation and ideas to stay healthy and positive
Quotes to keep you motivated:
“The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones.”
— Steven Pressfield, Author
Fitness Challenge - Hacky Sack 10 minutes/day
What a great challenge!! This is a great activity to play outside, with a friend (social distancing) and improve your health both physically and mentally. Take a look at some of the health benefits of playing hacky sack:
1. Heart-healthy
Hacky sack is a great exercise for your heart. When you’re playing you’re doing these repetitious movements right? The repetitive kicking and jumping keep your heart rate high and that aerobic rhythm is what strengthens your heart.
2. Develops strength, endurance, & energy
Another one of the more obvious benefits of hacky sack is that it builds strength. You can see evidence for strength in required effort and endurance. You won’t look like a bodybuilder, but you will become stronger (and leaner) as a result of playing hacky sack. Strength building is a result of repetitively using your muscles in new ways.
Endurance is another way to observe yourself becoming stronger. Building endurance comes from practice. By doing the same thing time and time again your body becomes use to it. Eventually, your efforts pay off, and you no longer get tired as easy and you can play longer than when you first started.
3. Develops coordination
Coordination is also one of the benefits of hacky sack. You learn more about what your body is capable of while you are working to develop your skills and expand your abilities.
This new knowledge and ability come from staying focused and concentrating on your goals. Your movements become refined, and eventually you develop the coordination to pull off those cool moves that you see on Mr. Shain's video (not Ms. Seaman, she needs practice).
https://kicksack.com/kicking-games/hacky-sack/benefits-hacky-sack/
Don't forget to work out! PE Classes online
Jillian Michael's - The right kind of mean
Podcasts
https://www.sheknows.com/parenting/articles/1134797/best-podcasts-teenagers/
Wellness Challenge - Declutter
You can also declutter your mind of negative thoughts or overthinking that can affect us at any point in our lives through meditation and mindfulness practice.
Your challenge is to declutter. Send me a video/picture of what this looks like for you. Some idea's would be:
- Clean your closet
- Organize your desk
- Clean up your daily routine
- Add a mindfulness app to your phone
CCHS Health and Wellness
Email: angie.seaman@pallisersd.ab.ca
Website: https://www.countycentral.ca/
Location: Box 390 504-4th Avenue South Vulcan, Alberta T0L 2B0
Phone: 403-485-2223
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