Personally, I think my school’s Fuel Up to Play 60 club is awesome. During our Tuesday meetings after school we get to do some really fun stuff like martial arts, games, weight lifting, and a lot of others. The program gets kids to come back if they miss a meeting, and makes sure they come to the next one because they don’t want to miss out on anything else.
We did weight lifting which was really fun! We got to go across the road to our high school to use their weight lifting room and one of their instructors came to teach us how to properly lift weights. He helped us, but after he assigned us an exercise he let us push ourselves a little bit more than we usually would. We played games with stuff like reps, bench presses, curls, and kettles. I had a great time with that, and everybody else seemed to like it.
I have to say one of my favorite things is intramural activities. We get the whole school moving and having fun with a little friendly competition! For the Make Your Move campaign we had a volleyball tournament, a poster competition, and of course a dancing competition where we got to come up with our own dances with our class. People really got in to it; we would stay after school to work on the posters and come in early for the dancing, it was great! And sometimes after all that fun we get to sit down and have healthy snacks provided by our school and Fuel Up to Play 60 (the Ambassadors get to pass them out).
Some of the snacks are fruit smoothies, carrots and broccoli, mixed fruit (my favorite) and others. Our school even won a grant, which is amazing! Now we will be able to get an XBox Kinect, a smoothie machine, and other things to make our school a healthier place.
Alex W.
Fuel Up to Play 60 Team Member
North Carolina
8th Grade
That is really cool! Our school does fun stuff like that too!
I love this program to help kids stay active
REALLY COOL PIC DUDE
WOW! Weight lifting!
Wow!!!!! ^^ agree with him I mean like you guys lift weights!!!! That’s pretty awesome! ^.^ but probably only the big kids got to lift weights like maybe 4th and up??? Or something like that =D
GET RUNNING
Amazing my school got George Wilson who plays for the Tenesse Titans to come to our school……
neat dude.