• Get Active Stay Active Here is a site designed to get teens moving.
• The President's Challenge This site provides the opportunity to be part of a program yet do what you would like to get active.

• Smoking Reduces Fitness
• Step To It: A Beginner's Guide to Hiking and Walking - American Hiking Society
• Fitness Fundamentals
  
  

• Helps build and maintain healthy bones and muscles.
• Helps reduce the risk of developing obesity and chronic diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
• Reduces feelings of depression and anxiety and promotes psychological well-being.

Long-Term Consequences of Physical Inactivity

• Overweight and obesity, influenced by physical inactivity and poor diet, are significantly associated with an increased risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, asthma, arthritis, and poor health status.
• Physical inactivity increases the risk of dying prematurely, dying of heart disease, and developing diabetes, colon cancer, and high blood pressure.

"By making the relatively small change from an inactive lifestyle to one that includes moderate but regular physical activity, even the most sedentary Americans can prevent disease and premature death and improve their quality of life."
Florence Griffith Joyner and Tom McMillen
Co-Chairs, President's Council on Physical Fitness & Sports

Check out this sample exercise clip of students from the School District of Lancaster in Pennsylvania.
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Walking
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