This lesson plan focuses on basic conditioning and plyometrics.
Results Statement: By completing this lesson plan, you will effectively accomplish a 30-minute virtual session. All families should be notified in advance what materials they may need (a soft surface, a towel, etc.)
Begin the class by asking the children: “What is your favorite thing to do outside?”
Make sure you know the names of each child. People can be renamed in Zoom if that helps you to remember.
Teach them how to do video and mute/unmute.
Warm Up:
50 jumping jacks
Jog in place 30 sec
High knees
Bottom kickers
Inch Worms
Side lunges right
Side lunges left
Squat and press
Swim forward
Swim backward
Cherry pickers
Blinkers
Neck
Ankles
Towel Jumps:
High knees over towels
Bunny hops back and forth
Jump over the river
Jump twist
Handstands:
Spider Handstands – If no wall use couch
In a mountain and switch leg
Mountain push up clap
Cartwheels:
Proper hand and foot placement
Conditioning:
Ski jumps
Push ups
Sit ups
Mountain climbers
Burpees
Jump squats half turns
Flexibility:
Straddle each side & middle
Pike
Butterfly
Hip flexors (runners’ stretch)
Hamstrings
End the class with hands in to the camera counting 1-2-3 “Twisters!”