Icke Kids Friday Class

The Kids Class on Friday is growing. Last week there were 7 (actually 8 but but one of the kids forgot his sport clothes), the week before nine kids. I am really happy about the progress, the only thing that worries me, is that it is hard to do the class with just one coach because you have to teach the class, look at the movements and take care of the little ones. My youngest girl is 5 1/2 years old,very talented but also a bit shy... Next Friday another Newbie will be coming to class. I actually was thinking about offering two Friday classes...

Icke Kids is growing...

I started a new Class on Monday. It is a Pre-Teen Class, there are kids between 11 and 15. Most of them are also playing Rugby and use CrossFit to get stronger, work on skills, endurance, power and speed. I really like teaching them and it is great to see their progress. We do a lot of gymnastic work like pull up progression, working on the handstand and of course, using our own body. I do the programming on my own, sometimes using the CrosssFit Kids post on instagram to gather some ideas and I also bought new books to get deeper into weightlifting and fitness training for kids. It is really interesting and I learn so many things as well.

In two weeks I ll start teaching to gymnastic classes at an English School in Berlin. It is also from our CF Box and I will include CrossFit movements but more from the gymnastic and bodyweight area. I was thinking about trying to bring the CF Kids program as an official program to schools, still reflecting and planning on this idea... :)

Preschool WOD II January 2015

Today we were only three kids, the youngest was sadly sick. 

The 2nd preschool class focused again on the squat. Repetition is very important at this age. So the focus during the first weeks will be the squat. Every class we want to focus on one aspect of the squat. This time it was the stance. I drew big smiles on the ground, using chalk (what else ;) ). The kids had to stand on the eyes of the smileys which was the squat stance. We worked a couple of minutes on the squat, chest up, look at your hands, stay on the eyes. Afterwards we did the warm up which was also a freeze game but this time the kids had to jump on a plate when the music was over (Island hopping). They ran between the circles, we changed the movements: bear crawl, jumping, backwards running...)

The wod was similar but this time they could do the obstacle course on their own, at the end of the course there were some small softballs (not too small, tennisball size), Everytime they finished a round they could take one ball and bring it back to their start point. So they and we kept track on their work. This worked out really well and I wan to include things like that more often, also during the older kids classes....

Fokus

Squat (smiles on the ground for the stance)

Warm Up

Freezing Game "Island Hopping"

There was a marked square and inside the plates to jump on when the music stops (doing one perfect squat before moving on), using different exercises (running forward/backward, bear crawl, crab walk, jumping...)

WOD

Obstacle Course

3 smileys, jumping from smiley to smiley

balance on the rope

tunnel (mat and two boxes)

taking a softball and running back to the start

schnell zurück rennen

Game

Circle Running Game, catching each others spot

Here would be little markers (carpets) helpful, so the you actually can see the spots on the ground where the kids sit.