Partner Sprint Block Pushes with XPodz Sliders

Broke out our new XPodz sliders and had the girls test them out with partner block push sprints. Once they get the hang of these, we will turn them into a relay race competition.

Partner doing the pushing gets to exercise leg power. Partner being pushed has to keep core and body tension/shape to make it work.

For the XPodz sliders: http://xpodz.com/

More expensive than standard furniture movers but you get what you pay for and what we got is a quality product with a unique, patented surface bottom that I think glides better. The foam is also thicker.

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Sharks & Minnows Game with Sliders

Capture the Strap Conditioning Tag Game

The girls love this.  You can come up with tons of variations and rules and create teams.  Now that it's summer, we're incorporating more conditioning games and team-building challenges.

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Bella at the Bar- never heard of this before:

Bella, originally titled Bella at the Bar, began as an ordinary serial and ended as arguably Tammy’s most popular and beloved character. Going on from an ordinary serial to endure for ten whole years, Bella Barlow holds a joint record with maidservant Molly Mills (q.v.) for the longest-running character in Tammy.

Bella Barlow was the product of a flourish of gymnastics stories in girls’ comics in the wake of Olga Korbut and Nadia Comaneci. Before Bella, Tammy had only one gymnastics story, Amanda Must not be Expelled (1972). But when Korbut and Comaneci made gymnastics the favourite sport for girls, girls’ comics wasted no time in jumping on the bandwagon. In Bunty, Josie the Gymnast scored top marks with readers while Tammy’s answer to Olga Korbut was Bella Barlow!

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Whenever Bella finds the opportunity, she indulges in the one thingshe has in life – gymnastics and working out on the makeshift apparatus she has installed in the back yard. The Barlows disapprove of her “monkey tricks” – except when they find a way to make money from it. Bella starts making headway when she finds proper coaches but still faces obstacles from the Barlows and other people. But of course everything ends happily when Bella saves a man’s life. He happens to be the Soviet ambassador, and he rewards her with a scholarship at a top Soviet gymnastics school.

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