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Healthy U's - Tasks & Challenges

Take a look at our Colchester United Players keeping active.

Be a Healthy U and see if you can join in with Pat Balwin & Medy Elito.

Challenge 1: Throwing and Catching

Hold the ball in two hands and throw and catch the ball to yourself, with a friend or against a wall. See how many you can do without dropping it and then try to beat your score.

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Challenge 2: Sit ups

These will work your stomach muscles. 

It is important to start with the basics and progress gradually, as you go through these challenges, this exercise will get harder over time.

Try to do 1 x 10 sit ups to start with and then gradually increase to 3 x 10.

 

 

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Chellenge 3: Jumping Jacks

These exercises will work your heart, lungs and leg muscles and can be made progressively harder over time.  Try to do 10 of these to begin with and then progress to doing 3 x 10.

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I really love it here, we learn something new every time we come.

Year 5 pupil from Cherry Tree primary School during their PfS programme Spring 09,