Keeping fit and active is really important because it keeps your heart healthy.
Your heart has to pump your blood all around your body. Your heart keeps doing that for your whole life, 24/7, so it has to keep fit and healthy. That means you’ve gotta keep fit and healthy.
When you exercise, your brain makes lots of chemicals called endorphins. And endorphins make you feel happy.
Pushing play – keeping active – helps you concentrate more.
Playing a sport’s a great way of keeping active, but there’s lots of ways you can push play at lunchtime at school or at home….see what you can come up with. The main thing is that you try to keep doing your push play exercise everyday.
Remember 30 minutes a day keeps you fit and healthy but you should try to aim for 60 minutes a day if you are between 5-18 years old
Constable Bryan has done the following push play activities throughout his life :
Yoga, Aikido, Cricket, Running, Soccer, Rugby, Rugby League, Hockey, Water Polo, Gaelic Football, Badmintio, Touch Rugby and he even once took dance lessons too
The world record for the most push-ups in one minute is 133!
Before the production of written languages, dance was one of the methods of passing stories down from generation to generation
The world record for sit ups is 1,448 in an hour
Martinho Eduardo Orige from Brazil once juggled a soccer ball for 19hours and 30 minutes, non-stop, with his feet, legs and head, without the ball ever touching the ground.
The most rugby tackles made in one hour is 4,130 by students from Scots College, Australia
The longest game of netball is 56 hours by Airborne Netball Club in the United Kingdom
The record for the most skateboard frontside ollies off a halfpipe ramp is 34
The largest Skateboard measured 9.4 m (31 ft 0.5 in) long, 2.4 m (8 ft) wide and 1.19 m (47 in) high
In America a crazy golfer has created a golf cart 'limo' that measures 5.81 m (19 ft 1 in) bumper to bumper and boasts a bar, stereo, DVD player, cigar humidor and wine rack to help keep its occupants entertained as they play golf
The greatest distance rowed in 24 hours (upstream and downstream) is 263 km
The greatest distance travelled on a treadmill in 24 hours by a woman is 247.2 km and to make it even more amazing she did it the middle of a shopping mall !!
New Zealand's national teams include:
Basketball: Tall Blacks (Men's team) Tall Ferns (Women's team)
Cricket: Black Caps (Men's team) White Ferns (Women's team)
Hockey: Black Sticks (Women's team)
Ice Hockey: Ice Blacks (Men's team)
Netball: Silver Ferns (Women's team)
Paralympics: Wheelblacks (Men's Wheelchair Rugby team)
Rugby League: Kiwis (Men's team) Kiwi Ferns (Women's team)
Rugby: All Blacks (Men's team) Black Ferns (Women's team)
Soccer: All Whites (Men's team)
Softball: Black Sox (Men's team) White Sox (Women's team)
Here are just some of the difference styles of dance around (perhaps you might even want to try one)
Ballroom(for example International standard)
Latin (for example tango)
Swing (for example :jive, jitterbug)
Street (Breakdance, Krumping)
Useful Links
http://www.sparc.org.nz
http://www.sparc.org.nz/getting-active/new-action-packs
http://www.sparc.org.nz/page-45c7fa82-a6b0-475a-b73a-9a344cb86e65.aspx