Teacher Training! Homemade Mace

If you've ever tried clubbells you will love mace training! 

This one is very light, about 10 pounds, but it still requires tremendous grip strength to control and balance the weight. It provide excellent shoulder mobility and is quite fun. It can be made easily with a wooden handle, a bag of concrete mix, and a basketball. If you're really strong you can use a full size basketball.

Teacher Training! Bulgarian Sand Bag (Home Made of Course!)

Before my students arrive in the morning, I like to get a workout in. In this video I feature a home made Bulgarian sandbag, made out of a car tire inner-tube. I zip tied the ends of the tube then put duct tape around the ends to serve as handles. I do Tabata sets of 40 seconds on then 40 seconds off, for 5 minute intervals. Just swing the bag around and it is a great workout for hip mobility, core strength and forearms. In addition, this is a great exercise to loosen up stiff shoulders. This exercise is also helping me get my full range of motion back post my torn labrum and clavicle distal resectioning surgery.

Perfect push ups for Men, Women, and Children!!

Watch the video for appearances by my wife Julie, and my 4 year old son, Ethan!

Green Lovin' Toddlers

                                       

Kids love to be involved in all things BIG, so why not recruit them to help the planet!? Start young and you can help to create an human being that will make environmentally correct decisions as second nature-- or hopefully first nature!

Be A Model:

Being green takes effort. For already overwhelmed parents the extra work might not be welcomed, but you are setting the example! Without your example your children might not understand what a gift our planet is to us. Even worse, you are not ensuring your grandchildren and great grandchildren, and great- great- great relatives a healthy planet of their own to live in.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle As A RULE:

Recycle

Sorting is a big milestone in children's development. A great way to help encourage categorizing and sorting: plastic... paper... metal... trash! Get bins and let your toddler slam dunk those water bottles, newspapers, milk cartons, glass jars, and more!

Reuse:

Turn that old toilet paper roll into a rainstick!

Make paper hats from newspapers!

Check out this cool toy made from a tissue box!

Reduce

Self explanatory, teach your toddlers not to be wasteful. The less we take from the environment, the more it will HAVE to give BACK. Use reusable water bottles and lunch bags, ditch ziplocks and get containers for trips! Use reusable bags when you go shopping or take old bags with you to the grocery store! With a little planning you can really make a difference!