Adventure To Fitness- Keep It Moving Tour

We at Adventure to Fitness recently came off our Fall 2011 Keep It Moving Tour and boy was that a ride. We visited the top schools around Florida and the kids went WILD for Mr. Marc!!! It was so refreshing for all of us to see how much Adventure to Fitness has made an impact on the lives of these young kids. I realized we're impacting the health of these kids in a way that can help them make smart and healthy choices for the rest of their lives. An idol of theirs (Mr. Marc) is running with them for 30 minutes a week (if not more! Which with most of these classes, was much more!) and encouraging them to eat nutritional foods while taking them across the globe! If you had one of your favorite actors come hang out with you and exercise each week, you think that would effect your choices? Oh my goodness, I'd want to be healthy and fit and ready to run. I'd want to carry on those habits. Especially if that person made doing the exercise something fun to look forward to.

Random thought: I also really liked how, aside from the kids being huge fans of Mr. Marc as a celebrity, they were also just itching to show him how fit they are. If he was talking about one of the bicycle fitness moves in an episode, all the kids would "ironically" start leaning back and their feet would just start levitating somehow- waited for his permission to start doing the bicycles. Once they did, they pushed hard and had a great time.

Well I digress...

Once the kids would calm down enough for Mr. Marc to speak, he was able to get into the importance of eating healthy to support Mega Mode fitness levels. He also touched a bit on how eating healthy and exercising are great on their own but that they help get our brains moving as well (Sound familiar? Like a previous blog post or something ;) ).

Then he would open up the floor to location ideas the kids would have for future episodes. Let me tell you, those kids were a riot! So creative! I think the top ideas from all our visits were probably to have an under water episode and a planet episode. So we'll see what we can do ;)

We have a video we made with pictures and footage from the tour at various schools. You can view it at our youtube channel. Here's the link: Fall 2011 Keep It Moving Tour Video

Thank you to those of you who participated and thank you for your great feedback about the visits. It was a pleasure and a lot of fun :)

Now, we have moved onto our Mr. Marc Skype visits! We're on a mission to honor the top 5 Adventure To Fitness teachers in each state with a personalized Skype visit from Mr. Marc. With over 25,000 teachers enrolled across the United States, it really takes an impressive class to be ranked in the Top 5!!! So congratulations to all of those who are going to get the chance to Skype with Mr. Marc for being such great fit and healthy adventurers.

We do these sort of rewards for great classrooms occasionally so keep it moving and one day, maybe your class can be visited or Skyped in too!

For now, we at HQ hope that you have a great week and as always, Keep It Moving!!!!