CTS 10-12: Recreation Leadership: Games & Exercises

Whether you’re pushing a grocery cart or putting on shoes, you use your core to accomplish a lot of everyday activities. Contrary to popular belief, your core doesn’t just include your abdominal muscles. It also consists of muscles in your back and around your pelvis.

Core-strength exercises strengthen the core muscles. Core muscles include the abdominal muscles, back muscles and the muscles around the pelvis. Strong core muscles make it easier to do many physical activities.

These are flexibility exercises for all age levels and fitness levels.

Staying injury-free throughout the sports season requires a proper stretching program. Flexibility is a key component to preventing injury. Stretching before athletic activity helps prepare the muscles for exercise. Stretching after exercise has proven to be even more important for preventing injury.

A collection of Indigenous games and activities to help introduce or reconnect children to sport activities that reflect the rich cultural heritage of Indigenous Peoples across Canada.

A useful guide about teaching children the basics of canoeing and kayaking.

A fun way to introduce outdoor adventure skills to participants aged 5-12 years!

These activities help to develop appreciation and enjoyment of the great outdoors. They also help children foster a healthy attitude to the environment around them.

The PE games you will find on this site are used by professional physical education teachers as part of successful programs in K-8 gyms.

A exercise series created by the Coeur D'Alene tribe that is based on traditional Indigenous dances.

Videos from the Exercise & Sport Science Initiative at the University of Michigan. Children have access to 20-minute cardio workout videos that are developmentally appropriate and approved by pediatric exercise physiologists and physical education specialists.

Tradition indigenous culture and values are linked with physical education activities for kids.