Extreme Winter Sports
Did you know that extreme winter sports can be tied into the national program called Student Body? I sure didn’t. Student Body is made up of three different units. These units are “Eat Right”, “Be Fit”, and “Make Healthy Choices.” Almost any sport can be used to demonstrate Student Body. However, it’s winter season and we need to be “shredding up the mountains!”
The first unit is “Eat Right.” When we pick a day to snowboard or ski, we need to eat a healthy meal before going out into the cold. Eating right will help us stay warm as well as give us energy to do sweet tricks in the terrain park. Eating right will also help us avoid eating disorders, which can be very dangerous in cold weather. It’s guaranteed we’ll be hungry after a few hours of shredding. So bring a healthy snack to keep the blood pumping healthy.
Another important unit is “Be Fit”. Snowboarding is an awesome sport for working out the leg muscles. The movement of carving helps strengthen the legs, especially when we are doing the heel, toe, heel, toe motion. Another way to help us stay fit is to carry our board up the mountain. I know, the chair lift is way easier, but challenge ourselves to carry our board up to the top. Trust me, when we get to the top we’re going to feel golden! We’ll be tired of course, but we will appreciate the ride down the hill because we weren’t lazy like everyone else, and we had an “extreme exercise.”
The last unit is “Make Healthy Choices”. Aside from just eating healthy, this unit is about choosing a positive lifestyle. Most Ski resorts are smoke-free, which can really help us stay away from making bad choices. Snowboarding keeps our mind off of doing (or eating) things that aren’t so good for us. Instead of sitting on the couch watching the McDonald’s commercial, we could be boarding down a hill enjoying the scenery. As a teenager, we are influenced to make bad choices everyday. Would we rather be dying of lung cancer from smoking, or boarding in a competition? The choice is ours, make it healthy.
Didn’t I tell you Extreme Winter Sports could be tied into Student Body? It is so cool how we can turn a sport into an example of Student Body…I’m not trying to give an idea for a project or anything… (Wink, wink). Any chapter that decides to do a Student Body project can receive cash awards and recognition at the national level. It’s as easy as Eat Right, Be Fit, and Make Healthy Choices.