It was a bit of a learning experience. It took us a good while to figure out what we wanted to do, the order, and how to adapt it for my younger daughter or anyone who can't do some of the harder things (like monkey bars). So, we were already hot before we even started!
Our 10 circuits were:
- Triangle slide climb
- Step ups/jump off
- Monkey bars or parallel arm lift swings
- Reverse pushups
- Climbing wall
- Slide step ups
- Obstacle course section
- Concrete tunnel/runaround
- Swing
- Swingset Hops (or alternating swing stands on one leg)
Here is my oldest daughter doing the demo of each of the 10 stations!
What we learned:
- Some stations were too hard do do for 60 seconds each. Our original intention was 1 minute intervals with 10 seconds in between. So, 30 to 45 seconds is more ideal. We did one round with 1 minute but I noticed my youngest daughter had to run in place quite a bit (we had a rule to just keep moving if an exercise got too hard). And, by the end, we were all dreading having to start over for the second circuit. So, the second time through, we did 30 seconds on with 15 seconds off. That was better. If you are exercising with a little child, that's probably better. With my oldest daughter, we think 45/15 is a good balance for teenagers/adults.
- We did make the mistake of having pushups back to back with another arm exercise. That was a mistake. In the future we will not put two extreme arm exercises right next to each other.
- A break might be necessary (walking or light jogging) between sets; since our first set was just too long, we did break with a walk between sets this time
If you try something like this out, please share!!! :) We had fun!
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