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PROJECT FIT AMERICA TEE SHIRTS - $20 |
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The PFA Story of Fitness Cups
His first major source of cups were from Pizza Hut, where he walked over to daily for a salad, and had friends who worked there. He figured out that about 1,000 cups were needed for a standard size PE class. But once he got to 1,000 cups he found that size hard to manage and evolved to the marvelous yogurt cups. He worked a deal with the lunchroom ladies at his school and collected all the used yogurt cups. Later as these “yogurt cup games” took off like wild fire, (not only at his school but at EVERY PFA school with whom he shared these lessons), he started getting larger amounts of yogurt cups donated by Anderson Erickson Dairy in Des Moines. He brought those donated cups in the 1,000’s to our schools. Eventually when the demand got so great, we took the yogurt cups in house and started making them for our schools. We call these Fitness Cups. These are NOT cup Stacking but …..Cup Building!!! Students from 1st grade to high school will work so hard to “earn” the cups as they are “currency” for fitness activities devised by the PE teacher. Walk into a gym and tell students they are going to do sit ups for the next 15 minutes and hear the groans. Walk in with your Fitness Cups and tell them you are going to do a Tummy Toughy Cup Build and they cheer and “high 5” each other! You want to see kids red faced, sweaty and smiling? Try a cup game! Get Your Own Cups for Free! If you cannot afford to buy our Fitness Cups, we encourage you to check with your school’s cafeteria to see if you can collect their yogurt cups. Also be sure to pull out your local phone book and look for any restaurants or stores that use plastic cups and ask them to donate cups to your school! You too can go “Cup Crazy” just like us!
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In
1995 a Physical Education Teacher named Steve Cox at
Watrous Elementary School in Des Moines, IA got a Project Fit America
(PFA) grant and turned his PFA program into the magical mystery
tour! Where his brain went, his creativity and imagination followed
and turned us on our heads! One of his “game creations” in
the deep of winter involved him gathering cups that he would then
use as currency for fitness activities he would designate for his
students. These were broad based fitness activities providing explosive
cardio, teamwork, communication and challenges.