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Instructions in English
Congratulations! You found a UC 4-H Community Adventure Challenge. Good job!
Your challenge is to get your heart beating faster. A strong body is foundational to being a strong Adventurer!
These adventures are located all around Yolo County (a complete list of locations can be found on the navigation bar on the left).
Below are directions for how to complete this fun activity. You may choose to do all three levels of difficulty, each is a little different. Select which level you would like to try first.
There is also an activity you can do at home below.
Pine Tree
Sycamore Tree
If you would prefer to watch a video on how to do the beginner challenge, you can click here.
- Find a row of tall trees at the park.
- Run “zig zag” through them (running in between the trees, left of one, then right of the next). Keep going until you’re huffin’ and puffin’!
- Once you feel your chest expanding quickly (this indicates you are breathing hard and strengthening your heart and lungs), take a one minute break.
- Repeat until you’ve worked out all your energy.
- Find a row of tall trees at the park.
- Run “zig zag” through them (running in between the trees, left of one, then right of the next).
- Now do a lap while doing “butt-kickers” (exaggerated running where your foot hits behind you, shown below).
- Continue until you feel your heart pumping fast (you can tell it’s pumping hard if you are breathing harder and faster)!
- Take a one minute break between laps, trying a different type of exercise each time:
- Galloping
- Skipping
- Bear Crawl
- Crab Walk
- Hop on both feet
- Find a row of tall trees in the park.
- Run zig zag (running in between the trees, left of one, then right of the next) through them.
- Now do a lap while doing high-knees (shown below).
- Continue until you feel your heart pumping fast (you can tell it’s pumping hard if you are breathing harder and faster)!
- Take a one minute break to catch your breath.
- Repeat with a different type of exercise each time:
- Lunges
- Side squat
- Hop on one foot (alternate feet between trees)
- Karaoke Walk (This is a real challenge! For a video demonstration, click this link: https://youtu.be/pC-0HIKuQbc)
Squats are a great way to tone and strengthen your lower body. However, there are many different ways to perform them. Check out this web page with a list of 40 different ways to do this exercise.
Which exercise was the most challenging?