“That Power” warmup to include learning the muscles of the body!

I made up this warm-up this summer.  I listen and listen to music all summer to find clean music for my Elementary students.  I found “That Power” by Will.I.Am (featuring Justin Bieber) and it is an awesome song that is really upbeat.  My students love it.  I incorporate muscular strength, aerobic endurance, flexibility and learning the major muscles of the body in this.  I do it in 1st – 5th and first graders almost have it memorized and we have only done it for 1 week!  Here it is:

8 pushups to the cadence of “down and 1, down and 2,”

Then, I say, “Sit on up, sit on up,” with a lot of enthusiasm.

Next is learning the muscles. Clap 2 times after each muscle.  I use: trapezius, clap, clap! deltoids, clap clap!and continue with biceps, triceps, pectorals, lats, abdominals, quadriceps, hamstrings, gastrocnemius and soleus.

Then, we stretch left, right then middle, until the music is about to get really fast then we stand up fast, and do 10 jumping jacks!

It is so fun and the students love it but it is hard.  I always say, “You can do hard things!”  I hope this helps some PE teachers!