Open Directory - Kids and Teens: Health: Fitness
This category in other languages: [ ] - Offers healthy diet tips for overweight teenagers trying to lose weight including camp research, articles and quizzes. [ ] - Offers simple exercises and healthy recipes. [ ] - Calculate Body Mass Index (BMI), life expectancy, and calories burned in favorite activities. [ ] - Guides to help make wise choices about daily living. [ ] - Handbook from the President's Council on Physical Fitness helps kids and teens, ages 6 to 17, learn about warming up, aerobic exercise, muscular strength and endurance, and cooling down. Includes information about awards and programs. [ ] - Online companion to the PBS broadcast, with resources and information for teens and educators on sports participation. [ ] - Tells how to get great exercise no matter what the weather is like or who's around. [ ] - The Thinkquest crew teaches kids about jumping rope with jump rope skills, quiz, and information on how exercise keeps the heart healthy and bodies fit. [ ] - Instructions on the equipment needed, variations, muscle groups exercised, and basic workout tips for jump rope beginners. [ ] - Kids learn about sports, fitness, and healthy bodies from a team of elementary school students. [ ] - Fun learning adventure on how kids can play smart, avoid injuries, and getting the body in shape after an injury. [ ] - Training information for young and beginning sprinters. Aimed at athletes as young as 8. From Sydney Athletics. [ ] - Explains why some kids feel pressure while competing and tell what do it if it happens to you. [ ] - Article tells how genes affect weight, how to get active, ways to watch what you eat, and staying healthy. [PDF] [ ] - Interactive webquest designed to help seventh and eighth grade students learn about diet and exercise. [ ] - Article explains why some kids don't like sports and other ways to get exercise. [ ] - Explains why some kids weigh more, what a healthy weight means, when to see a doctor, and tips for eating and exercise. [ ] - Tells why exercise is important and explores the many benefits of physical activity.
