Active Bodies Active Minds | Fitness

Summer Fit Learning

The new Summer Fit workbook series keeps young minds and bodies in shape during summer by helping you create simple, fun routines in your home that will positively impact your academic, physical and social performance throughout the school year.

Visit the Summer Fit website for great resources on how to stay active!

Get Active!

Let’s Move! and the PALA + Program

During the 2012 season, Active Bodies Active Minds will continue to support First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign, and will work with the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition to include the PALA+ Program to promote the importance of living a healthy lifestyle.

MLS supports the Presidential Active Lifestyle Award and encourages you to be active every day! All it takes is 60 minutes for children and teens and 30 minutes for adults. To achieve the Presidential Active Lifestyle Award log onto www.presidentschallenge.org to track your daily activity achievements and eating behaviors for 6 out of 8 weeks, five days a week.

Check out the President’s Challenge Featured Activities to add new physical activities to your routine. Also check out the BMI (Body Mass Index) Calculator to learn about the relationship between height and weight and make sure that your body stays healthy.

Join the Challenge now at www.presidentschallenge.org

Visit http://www.letsmove.gov to learn more about the Let’s Move! Initiative

Canada Physical Activity Guidelines

It’s Time to Move! Don’t Just Think Active…Be Active!

Physical activity plays an important role in the health, well-being and quality of life for all Canadians. Habits formed early can last a lifetime. Help kids and youth live a healthy lifestyle…60 minutes of physical activity every day; at home, at school, at play.

Healthy Living, It's for Life!

To help Canadians move towards healthier lifestyles, the Public Health Agency of Canada supported the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology in developing new physical activity guidelines for children, youth, adults and older adults. To learn more and find tips to get active, visit the Public Health Agency of Canada at www.publichealth.gc.ca.

Be Active, Play Soccer!

Major League Soccer is proud to support youth soccer organizations throughout North America. Visit any of the below organizations to find a soccer program near you!