Fitness Challenge Week 1 – Stork Stand – Learn from Nature

Test your Balance – Equilibrium

• Stand on one leg with the opposite foot resting against the knee of your supporting leg.
• Hands should be on your hips.
• Lift the heel of your standing foot off of the floor so that you are on your toes.
• Hold for as long as possible.

There are many factors that help us be fit and healthy. One of these components is BALANCE and is a key factor in many sports and maintaining an everyday healthy lifestyle.

As a part of YBD PE lessons pupils take part in some fitness test. There are lots of fitness test out there and the STORK STAND is one of them.

Follow the instructions or look at the YOUTUBE clip to find out how to do the test:

Practice!

Find out some practices/drills/ techniques that can improve your static balance, and do them at least twice a day for a week.

For example some people say you should focus your eyes on one point just ahead of you to improve your balance.

Here’s Mr Davies trying the challenge and giving you some additional balance exercises:

Re-test – NO cheating!

• How did you do??
• Improve??
• Get worse??
• Many people enjoy being tested  sometimes, as it helps identify strengths and weaknesses, as well as giving us a baseline measurement, and allows us plan, practice and hopefully improve.

Good luck!