The Busy Body Book: A Kid's Guide to Fitness
Lizzy Rockwell
Language: English
Pages: 40
ISBN: 0553113747
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
A celebration of the amazing human machine and a life on the move!
Your amazing body can jump, sprint, twist, and twirl. Your body is built to move.
Lizzy Rockwell explains how your bones and muscles, heart and lungs, nerves and brain all work together to keep you on the go. Kids walk and skate and tumble through these pages with such exuberance that even sprouting couch potatoes will want to get up and bounce around—and that’s the ultimate goal. Studies show that American kids are becoming more sedentary and more overweight and that they carry these tendencies with them into adolescence and adulthood. Experts agree that we need to help kids make physical activity a life-long habit. Through education, information, and encouragement, this book aims to inspire a new generation of busy bodies!
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repeat three or four times. • Belly Breathing—Lie on your back on the floor, with your hands on your belly. Take in a deep, deep breath. Let your stomach rise up as the breath fills the bottom of your lungs first, then expands all the way up to your neck. Let the breath out slowly in the opposite way, from the top down. Squeeze your stomach so you can push every last bit of air out of your lungs before you begin the next inhale. Repeat three or four times. MODERATE ACTIVITIES (30 minutes
outdoors. • Have FUN! Sources: The President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, National Association for Sport and Physical Education, Yoga for Children by Mary Stewart and Kathy Phillips (Simon & Schuster, 1993) Dear Parents and Teachers, It’s easy to see that children love to move. How many times have you had to ask a child to sit still—in the car, at school, or at the dining table? Being physically active makes kids feel good. They breathe deeply, filling their lungs
978-0-553-11374-7 (trade) ISBN 978-0-375-82203-2 (hardcover) ISBN 978-0-375-92203-9 (lib. bdg.) ISBN 978-0-307-79342-3 (ebook) 1. Body, Human—Juvenile literature. 2. Exercise—Juvenile literature. [1. Body, Human. 2. Exercise.] I. Title. QP37.R653 2003 612—dc21 2002029914 v3.1 For Ken, Nicholas, and Nigel Thanks to Annie, Alana, Sasha, Frankie, Ned, Nick, Nigel, Christopher, and Kara, for their help as advisors, assistants, or models. Thanks to my editor, Nancy Siscoe, for her
with energizing oxygen. They use their muscles, releasing mood-improving endorphins. Regular physical activity helps children eat well, sleep well, perform well in school, resist illness, and grow strong, cheerful, and confident. The good news is that being physically active is natural for children. The bad news is that today many children are not active enough to stay healthy. The number of seriously overweight children in the United States has tripled in the past twenty years. Obesity is
Just look at it. You have hands for clapping, feet for stamping, legs for leaping, and arms for swinging. You can jump, sprint, twist, and twirl. You can do all that because your body is built to move. Underneath your skin is a strong, hard skeleton made of bones. Bones keep your body standing tall. Joints connect bones so you can bend. Muscles are attached to bones by tendons. Muscles let you move and lift and stretch. When you use your muscles again and again, they don’t get worn