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Keep working out with your kids during vacation time

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It's holiday season! Vacation is important; taking time off and having a different rhythm helps you to relax. Sometimes you don't even realize it, but you only realize when you take a rest that this was what you needed. Vacation also helps you get out of your routine. This provides an opportunity to reflect on how you are doing and where you stand. To discover new things and nurture your creativity. Holidays can also contribute to connection: with yourself, your partner, your children, or the relatives and friends with whom you celebrate holiday together. During a joint holiday you make joint memories and you undertake activities together, which in turn ensure connection.

Ok, you got it: vacation is important. At the same time, we also understand that this can present an extra challenge for many athletes. Besides a different rhythm and the warmer weather, the children are also free. And how can you continue to exercise with children around? 

The most important tip: think again!

You can of course try to cling to your sports routine, which is often quite difficult in this time and can cause frustration. You can also think about it: how can you keep moving and stay in shape in a way that is also fun for your holiday companions? Below we share 7 tips and a bonus tip.

  1. Take micro-adventures together
  2. Do all animal poses with yoga
  3. Go plogging, planning, playing or jutting
  4. Train your feet on a barefoot path
  5. Enter the tree!
  6. Discover a new sport together
  7. If you can't beat them, join them!

Tip 1 - Take micro-adventures together

Go treasure hunting with geo-caching , download the Perfect Earth Animals app from Staatsbosbeheer and collect animal maps while walking, take an adventurous walk in an environment where you have never been before, go wild swimming in a lake ( here you can read where that safe) instead of in a swimming pool. Or go cycling somewhere you've never been before. Provisions, water, sunglasses, cellphone, anti-sunscreen and anti-mosquito equipment and go!


Tip 2 - Do all animal poses with yoga

For many athletes, yoga can be a great addition to their exercise routine . And the nice thing is that there are all kinds of yoga forms for children. Ok, an hour-long yoga routine is not possible with small children, but loose poses of a few minutes are often doable. Especially the animal poses : snake, frog, dog, camel and more. Or look on the site of yogaplaza how the dog, cow and cat are combined with fun stories.


Tip 3 - Start plogging, planning, playing or jutting

uh, what? Go for a run, walk or kayak together at a leisurely pace and combine that with cleaning up litter. Protect yourself and others well against the sun and heat, see this article for tips. Prefer something organized? For example, participate in a beach clean up or an event near you, or at the local beach club . What you can also do is gossip together. Go to the beach or forest in search of beautiful finds with which you can craft something fun. Or map out a route along nice stopping points and hide small (non-perishable) surprises along the route in advance. 

At Scheveningen you have TrashUre Hunt where you can participate in the beach cleanup.

Tip 4 - Train your feet on a barefoot path

Walk in slippers or bare feet. You train different muscles when you walk in different shoes. Of course your feet should be protected, but it can be refreshing to try a barefoot path .


Tip 5 - Go up the tree!

Strength, balance, agility: you train it all in a climbing forest . Fun for your (somewhat older) kids and for you. 

Tip 6 - Discover a new sport together

Do you have slightly older children? Then vacation is the ideal opportunity to discover a new sport together. Get on a supboard , go golf or windsurfing, go bouldering , or rent a training bike such as an elleptigo . You immediately address other muscles, with which you shake your body awake again. And maybe you'll discover a fun new activity!

At Surf's Cool Scheveningen you can book a surf lesson almost every day of the year, also together with your family!


Tip 7 - If you can't beat them, join them!

The easiest tactic is: just join in the fun! Especially small children can be very active: they want to play football, swim, play tag, on the trampoline, you name it. Just join in and you'll see: that's more tiring and more fun than it looks 😃 In fact, playing fanatic is just a top workout!

Did you know that scootering is also a lot of fun to participate in? Get a good children's scooter and one for you and go!

Bonus tip: you don't have to, rest is also important!

The most important thing to remember is: you don't have to. Rest is also important, as any top athlete can tell you. Your condition isn't completely gone after a week or two of taking it easy. And do you find it difficult to get moving again after the holidays? Then maybe these tips will help you.
Have a lot of fun together! Love, Mara & Wendy

Mara and Wendy - Spiffy active Authors - Mara and Wendy
The sporty sisters Mara and Wendy run together Spiffy active . That is a brand with sustainable and high-quality sportswear from the Netherlands, available in sizes 36 to 52. Their mission is to make you look good, so that you move with pleasure and self-confidence. And that works, see for yourself .

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