| "Look mommy! Pull ups!" Said my 2 year daughter this weekend as she pulled the hand towel rack off the bathroom wall. It sure warmed my heart to hear this story and see my next "to do" resting on my dresser. Pete Kelly was right when he said having kids will give you a reason to smile everyday.
Hi Friend,
Happy Labor Day Weekend to you!
The Alves Family visited the Thomas M. Menino Park in Charlestown yesterday because we saw it got Best of Boston for Playgrounds in 2016 (who knew there was such a thing?). It's a very cool playground on the Harbor in a real scenic environment by the Naval Yards with lots of interesting apparatus'. We had a fun visit and I recommend it, especially if you're a frequent park visitor and always on the lookout for a new playground to keep things fresh.
One of yesterdays cool experiences, was teaching my daughter to bear climb up the spongy-rubber, incline she had previously face planted into while trying to walk up it. I would have glossed right over this captured, teachable moment had it not been for Vanessa to stop me and set a time stamp that I just taught Vivi something. Yay for us!
We spent about an hour there and I'd say I got close to 50 minutes of cardio in, from running around, climbing, crawling, squatting, doing pull ups & push ups (earning wife eye rolls), lifting, climbing rocks and benches and duck walking, in addition to swinging, see-saws, yodeling and the self-powered merry-go-round. It wasn't a high intensity workout, it wasn't steady-state running and it also wasn't sitting on my butt. It was fun, memory making, low intensity interval training in the form of playing at the park with my family and getting a bonus cardio workout in for myself.
Past Family Boot Camp Participant
I'm writing to you because you were a past family boot camp participant so you're a bit familiar to the why's and how's of our FBC events. We're hosting our 1st Family Boot Camp since 2014, this coming Saturday, Sept 10 from 7:30-8:30a at the Mackenzie Center and I'd like to invite you to it.
Family and Health Deposits
Is it sometimes challenging for you, to prioritize making memories with your family and making time for your health, especially on the weekends?
Would you agree that your family and you most times do better with structure?
Would you also agree that you often times do your best when you don't have to think too hard and can just do?
That's basically some of questions we address during our Family Boot Camp.
- make memories with family and get in your workout
- structure through tall cones (adults) & small cones (kids)
- reusable warm up, cardio-core workout and cool down exercises for your life
- simple developmental locomotion skills for the kids (crawl, skip, lunge, squat, plank, hop, jump, stop, start, fwd, bwd, side-to-side)
- simple corrective and functional movements for the adults (balance, stability vs. mobility, anterior chain vs. posterior chain, sagittal plane vs. frontal plane vs. transverse plane, 1-leg vs. 2-legs, dynamic vs. static, fun vs. effective, injury prevention vs. performance enhancement)
- minimal equipment (mat, towel & water)
- set time & date: 7:30-8:30am
- predictable outcome: 50min of cardio & core
- coached workout: less thinking, more doing
- major bonding with family and other participants
- supporting a great person and cause
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| | Maeve Here's Maeve. You may already know her or have seen her before. She's super nice, smart and sweet and an overall awesome person. She's participated in a handful of family boot camps with her bro Finn and her parents, Mich & Sean and sometimes you'll see her at the evening BC supporting her parents while they workout. Many times there are other kids their supporting their parents while they workout as well, and I've had the other, younger kids, specifically the girls, tell me they like Maeve b/c she was real nice and friendly, when they were nervous to be at BC.
Maeve was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes last year and asked me if I could support Maeve's Brigade in the Diabetes Walk by hosting a family boot camp. It was too short of notice for me last fall, but I wanted to surprise her by running an event for her this year.
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| Maeve's Brigade, Family Boot Camp
7:30-8:30a, Sat, Sept 10
Mackenzie Center
1337 Centre Street
Newton Centre, MA 02459
Only 46/50 spots remaining.
Sign Up now to make a memory with your child AND getting your workout in.
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| | When you click on the link to sign up, you'll see most if not all of the past family boot camps we've hosted. Pick one, watch it and notice the smiles. It's really fun. I have fun coaching. It's pure and beautiful, joyous and refreshing all the while you're learning new skills or practicing familiar ones; moving your body, getting better and getting a sweat first thing in the morning on your Saturday and setting up the rest of your day to be great. And you did it with your family. And you supported Maeve's Brigade.
Your memory making coach,
Mike Alves Burn & Earn!
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