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60 Second Physical Activity Challenges

Balloon Olympics: Play these 7 sports with your toddler, a balloon, and a few household items.

Frisbee Games: Fun frisbee games you can play in your backyard or at the park.

At-Home Activities for Children: Creative ideas to keep your kids moving while you're at home.

Trick Shot Challenge: We are challenging everyone to post videos of their most creative trick shots from home using #thprdchallenge

30 Day Wall Sit Challenge: Help strengthen your legs with this 30-day wall sit challenge!

30 Day Push Up Challenge: 50 push ups without stopping in 30 days. Are you up for the challenge? Click here for printable wall calendar.

Stretch Challenge: 10 simple stretches you can do from home presented in a slide show format.

Family Fitness Recipe Challenge: Family members put words in a jar according to theme and select a word a day for the family to do a fitness challenge together.

¼ Mile Running Challenge named “Florence”: This up-hill running challenge invites you to find a hill to run in your neighborhood.

100 Volley Rally Challenge: This is our take on professional tennis player Andy Murray’s worldwide volley challenge.

6-Week Beginner 5K Challenge: Whether you’re training for a race or just want to get some exercise, this daily 6-week training program will help even the most inexperienced runners go 3.1 miles! Click here for printable wall calendar.

BIKE Challenge: Join the THPRD during the month of May for our Bike Ride Challenge! Ride around your neighborhoods or THPRD trails. Share photos of you and your family riding around the park district.

Pick your mileage:

• 6-mile recreation challenge
• 8-mile aquatic challenge
• 30-mile center-to-center challenge (if you started and ended at admin and rode clockwise from center to center)
• 70-mile trail challenge
• 200-mile park district challenge (roughly the perimeter of the district)

THPRD Trail Map
Safe biking tips during physical distancing

Sign up for National Bike Challenge

Core Workouts with Sit-Ups

Sports Conditioning Tips with Push-ups

Cardio Tips

Cardio for Kids - this 3:30 minute video shows 10 simple exercises you can do at home with your toddler.

Cardio for Adults

Stair Runs - Find a set of stairs in your neighborhood and see how many times you can run them. Begin at the bottom and run to the top. Jog back down to catch your breath and see if you can repeat the run back to the top? The downward run is also a workout as it uses different leg muscles, so overtime you’ll build your cardiovascular capacity and your leg strength.

Cardio for the Whole Family

Step Workout - Step up onto a stair step, or a box, for 30 seconds and notice how your heart rate elevates. Try this workout in timed intervals that allow you to rest in between, or increase your interval times from 30, 45 or 60 seconds as you work on your cardio endurance. This is a great workout to do at home and you’ll quickly feel the benefits of this short, simple workout. Make this workout a part of your regular routine if you want to improve your cardiovascular capacity.

Have fun working on these gymnastic skills at home.

Gymnastics Level 2/3: Advanced gymnastic techniques you can practice at home.

Improve your foot work with these simple soccer drills.

Agility Drills: A few quick drills to develop faster feet.

Keep your baseball skills sharp with these three at-home drills.

Practice these three basketball drills to help you develop on your skills indoors.

The Pickleball Channel is an online only media channel sharing the wonderful game of pickleball. View over 238 videos for those who love pickleball.

Click here to watch The Pickleball Channel.

Click here for a printable version of the USA Youth Volleyball Coloring and Puzzle Book.

Cornhole Tips: Helpful tips to help improve your cornhole skills!

Ages 6-10 years

Tennis Skills with Coach Katherine: This 4-part video series will take beginners through the basics of tennis in a driveway setting: Eye hand coordination and ball tracking; forehand and backhand ground strokes; volleys and serve.

Tennis Activities:

Word Search: Learn some tennis lingo as you search for tennis vocabulary in a word search (PDF format)

Junior and Adult:

Tennis Acrostics: These PDF files are for individuals who have taken some tennis lessons as an educational tool and reminder.

Tennis Acrostic for Backhand (PDF)	Tennis Acrostic for Forehand (PDF)	Tennis Acrostic for Overhead (PDF)
Tennis Acrostic for Serve (PDF)	Tennis Acrostic for Slice (PDF)	Tennis Acrostic for Topspin (PDF)
	Tennis Acrostic for Volley (PDF)