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This PE Teacher’s At-Home Exercises Are Winning Hearts All Over The World
This PE Teacher’s fun exercises are catching attention all over the world.
Meet Zachary Baker, a PE Teacher from USA’s Poquoson Middle School, who is helping people with easy workout activities to do at home during the lockdown. Interestingly, these exercises don’t require any gym equipment.
Baker uploads themed workouts like Minute to Win It Monday, Tabata Tuesday, Wacky Wednesday and Fitness Test Friday, in which he uses canned food packets and kitchen groceries as weights and stacks of pillows as hurdles to push himself physically. In fact, he’s come up with fun fitness challenges like ‘how fast can you turn on all the lights in your house?’.
His basic idea is to convey people to be active as we stay longer and longer in our houses. “I’m just trying to give people ideas of how to stay active, whether it’s at their home or a walk down the street while practising social distancing,” says Baker.
He is using as many platforms available to reach out to more people and tell them that it takes just a few minutes to take a break from sitting and lounging. From Facebook and Instagram to TikTok and YouTube, Baker’s home workout videos are available all over the internet to encourage people of all ages.
According to Baker, staying physically active can truly boost one’s confidence and self-esteem. All of his exercises are kids-friendly, too! He, in fact, includes a lot of dance moves in his exercises as he feels “it promotes a lot of great, positive social interactions between the kids and it’s a great cardio exercise.”
And, to keep it age-appropriate, he avoids using songs with curse words or replaces them with the Kidz Bop version.
Source: Daily Press