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Angie Neal
Mercer County
Mercer School

Description:

Working out with things that students can find around their home. Students can use canned food to do an entire workout. First, have students gather at least 6 to 8 cans of food they most likely have readily available in their kitchen. They can then:

1. Do bicep curls and triceps curls while holding a can in each hand.
2. Do wall sits while balancing a can on each thigh.
3. Hold a plank while stacking and then unstacking cans (2 cans or 3 cans in each stack).
4. Do sit-ups while holding a can, or even do Russian twists while using a can while going side to side.
5. Do a relay run with a sibling where you run from point A to point B, and then hand off the can to the next runner, etc. If no sibling is available, running is still possible by starting with several cans of food, and then running one can at a time from the starting location to a location farther away, then returning to the starting location to grab another can, etc., until no cans are left. These are just a few physical activities that can be done right at home with nothing other than canned food.