Our July 2024 Fitness Challenge Calendar is here!
As we dive into summer, use this calendar as a resource for summer camp or to send kids home with over break. This printable calendar is a great way that teachers and recreational professionals can encourage students to stay active.
We teamed up with the Alliance For A Healthier Generation to create this fitness calendar for the month of July 2024. Here is the link to the download, which is a total of 3 pages with visuals:
Printable Fitness Challenge Calendar July 2024
Kids are challenged each day to participate in the activities listed on the calendar. For the month of July, since school is officially out for the summer, we encourage kids their parents, and their friends to all practice simple fitness exercises during the week and on weekends. Teachers can also use the calendars for brain breaks if they are teaching summer school! Some of the exercises include crunches, arm circles, knee raises, and squat jumps.
Each week, the number of repetitions for each fitness exercise increases. Please keep in mind the number of repetitions is meant as a guide, and can be adapted as needed based on age group and skill level.
On Wednesdays, students will refer to the Animal Task Card #1 and the Weather Task Card #2 that have various activities listed on each card. These are fun and interactive activities that allow kids to use their imagination and be creative. For example, the Weather Task Card includes earthquake shaking and jumping up like a volcano eruption. Each of these cards can be done with no props or materials, so anyone can participate! See below for a description of the Weather Task Card. There is no wrong way to do it, just have fun with it!
Weather Descriptions
Earthquake Shaking: Students shake their whole bodies to imitate an earthquake shaking the ground.
Volcano Eruption: Students will start with their knees bent squating on the floor, then jump up fast to imitate lava spewing from a volcano.
Tornado Twisting: Students will twirl around in circles just like a tornado wind creates a spinning funnel of wind.
Hurricane: Students will get their exercise with this one! Run around the room to imitate strong wind blowing over the trees.
Blizzard Skiing: It’s a blizzard but you must get to the other side of the room! Students can pretend to ski and use their ski poles to get through the blizzard storm.
July is National Parks & Recreation Month
For the month of July, we are supporting #NationalParksandRecreationMonth by encouraging kids and families to perform the activities at their local parks. The goal of this monthly observance is to get more people to visit national, state, and city parks. The Tasks Cards can easily be completed at these locations. Make an entire day of it! Kids can have fun pretending to fly like a bird, or be a tornado, and use the open space to run around. On Saturdays, we suggest activities that can also be done at the park, such as playing tennis on the public tennis courts, jogging with a friend, and swimming in the lake. You can even plan on visiting a new park each weekend, and complete the exercises there. Kids can mark on a map which ones they have visited, and what their favorite feature was about each park.
Task Sheet
Download our printable Fitness Challenge Task Sheet for your participants to fill out each day. They will record what exercises they did and put a check mark in the completed box if they completed the number of reps on the calendar. There is also a self-assessment section which is great for social emotional learning. Kids will circle the emoji that best describes how they felt after doing the exercises. The notes section is a place where they can jot down anything related to the activities, and also a great place to record their hobbies they did each Saturday this month.
Get the printable Task Sheet here.
Certificate of Completion
Reward your students for completing the Fitness Challenge! View our printable Certificate of Completion below specifically designed for the month of July. It will open up a Word Document with the template – you just have to fill in the names of your students where it says Enter Name Here.
Get the printable Certificate here.
Additional Resources
Here are some additional resources to help you celebrate National Parks & Rec Month.
- Activities to Support National Parks and Recreation Month
- National Parks Month – A Learning Experience for Students
- S&S Worldwide and Parks & Rec Go Way Back!
- Pledge to Commit to Health
We would love to hear your feedback in the comment section below!
Do you have a description of what an earthquake shaking? or tornado twisiting is for the kids? Also do you have an August Version?
Hi Brianne, we can add that information to the blog post. Thank you for the suggestion. Also, the August version is available now here: https://www.ssww.com/blog/august-printable-fitness-challenge-calendar/
where can we find that information that your adding to the blog post?
We have added it under Weather Descriptions in the July blog post. Hope that helps! https://www.ssww.com/blog/july-printable-fitness-challenge-calendar/
Thank you! This calendar is great for challenging myself and others!
LOVE the fitness challenge, but this is for kids or active adults. Do you perchance, have a version for the elderly?
Hi Donna, great to hear you love the fitness challenge. Unfortunately we don’t have one that is specifically geared towards seniors, but you can modify this calendar. I can send you the template if you’d like. If you are looking for ways to keep residents active, we have several blog posts with ideas as well: https://www.ssww.com/blog/tag/active-seniors/
looking for the September printable calender
Hi there, we are hoping to have the August and September calendars completed in a week or two. I will keep you posted when they are up on the blog. Thanks!
Looking for the September printable calendar.
Hi there, here is the link to the September fitness calendar blog, just click the link at the top “Printable Fitness Calendar September 2018”: http://www.ssww.com/blog/september-printable-fitness-challenge-calendar/
Thanks…
Why can’t we find it online?
My school will be doing this every day so I need to be ready. Thanks for the calendar.
That is great to hear your school is using the calendar every day! Were you searching online for the calendar or on our blog? If you look under the PE Central category, there is a subcategory called Fitness Challenge Calendars and a new one is posted each month. We will be sharing the October calendar tomorrow!
How do you get the task cards?
Hi Jill – If you click the printable calendar they are on the download. YOu can either choose the link or click on the actual image of the calendar.
Just cursious if you have a way to record and keep track of who is completing the challenges.
Hi Diane, this is a great suggestion. What are you specifically using the calendars for? We could offer some ideas based on your needs.