Agility Exercises for Kids

Eric 41, is a well known physical trainer and works for a private school. After gaining success in the state level basketball contest, the principal of the school, Mr Jackson, assigned him another challenging task. This time it was developing some agility exercises for kids, so as to improve their bodily movements, flexibility and overall fitness. The very next day, Eric started researching out for such exercises on the Internet. Well, he found out a few and decided to implement some of them in the school. Read the text below to learn about those exercises...

Very young and tender age is the best time, when kids can be molded and one can inculcate the importance of good values and habits such as regular exercises, balanced diet and sufficient rest in them. Habits formed in this age actually, benefit them in middle and old age. Over here, our focus would be improving the agility of kids. Now, you would ask, what is agility? It is the ability of an individual to change bodily positions quickly and effortlessly. Agility decreases with aging. However, proper agility exercises for kids would keep them fit and flexible for a long time, even in their sunset years. So here are some agility exercises for kids. Read more on kids health.

Agility Exercises for Children

Move and Sit With the Music!
Well, this is nothing different, it is musical chair! Musical chairs are a great alternative for improving the agility in kids. Continuous sidewards movements, while the music runs and immediately turning back and sitting on the chair when the music stops. This process actually trains their body to move quickly towards both their sides and also turn back suddenly. So this is fun as well as exercise! Music chair can be arranged in indoors as well as outdoors.

Sweat a Bit in the Outdoors!
Playing outdoor games in young age is important and beneficial for everyone. Playgrounds are the place where a child learns sportsmanship, fight at times and also does a lot of physical activity. Jacks is one such outdoor game that improves the agility of hands. All you have to do is, pile 5 jacks and bounce a palm sized ball next to the jacks. You then need to collect as much as jacks as you can till the ball lands. Kids usually are able to pick up one in the first attempt. However, with practice they pick up more jacks in a single bounce.

Hip Hop Hopscotch!
Hopscotch is amongst the all time favorite games for kids. In hopscotch, kids hop through boxes drawn in a numerical sequence using single or both feet. The player inside the boxes, must throw a marker into any of the boxes and must hop into the boxes, without using any of his other body parts for balance. This hopping distance increases and becomes challenging as the game proceeds. This increases the agility of lower body and also improves their balance.

Challenging Obstacles!
You must have heard of games such as 'Wipe Out' and 'Ninja Warrior'. Well, what we are gonna do over here is the same. Set up obstacles such as balance beam walks, nets, monkey bars and slide on a playground at a certain distance from each other. The challenge for kids over here is to overcome all the obstacles as soon as possible. Older kids might wish to set a timer, challenge their friends and try to beat each other's time, which makes the game even quicker and tough. Overcoming the obstacles targets the entire body. This therefore contributes to improvement in the movement of each and every body part, thereby increasing the agility.

Here are some more articles on agility training for you,

• Agility Ladder Drills
• Agility Ladder Training.

So these were some of the best agility exercises for kids. Usually, routine outdoor games and physical activities are sufficient to develop for the purpose of improving agility. However, video games such as Dance Dance Revolution, play tunnels also have been effective in this regards. Eric implemented these simple but useful agility exercises in the school and was successful once again!!!