This is the best exercise on the planet for children in grades K-12.  

Exercise on the Railyard is fun, and every physical educator will tell you that fun is the most important element of a children's program. The jumping, crawling, ducking, and climbing movements involved on the Railyard will provide a child with strength, improved balance, cardio, stamina, balance, flexibility, coordination, and improve their posture. Exercise on the Railyard challenges not only a young body, but also a young mind. The exercises naturally engage all the movement centers of the brain, crossing the midlines on all three planes. Creativity is natural on the Railyard Course as your students visualize and execute the movements, and overcome challenges on the Course. Confidence will grow as a child experiences the thrill of successfully executing the exercises, and realizing their improvements day by day. All the exercises can be easily modified to accommodate every child, so they will succeed. Feel free to read what others say about the Railyard and special needs education.

Here's a video sent to us by one of our elementary school customers-you gotta see this!

 What is Exercise on the Railyard?

 
Exercise on the Railyard Conditioning Course is 100% natural fitness; these are the movements we utilized as we evolved as a species. There are six fundamental components to a Patch Fitness Program on the Railyard:
1) Going up and down or over something
2) Going under something
3) Going around something
4) Challenging and removing your limitations
5) Using multiple environments
6) And most important of all—having fun!
 

Using these fundamentals gives you many options; you are not limited to any rules. Remember, this is all about playing. So, how do you want to play on any given day?
 

Going UP and DOWN or Over Something

Climbing is a function of the human body and can be done in various ways. Kids can use their hands and feet in a unified effort to scale a wall, climb a rocky hill, climb a tree or jungle gym, get up on the kitchen counter to grab a cookie in the cupboard, and come back down. Jumping over things is another function of the human body and can be done in various ways. We can vault our bodies up and over a fence using our upper body as a fulcrum and swinging the legs over the top from one side to the other; we can jump up onto a higher platform and jump back down. Stepping up onto a bench or rolling over an obstacle can satisfy the requirement as well. Exercise on the Railyard lets us do these things. Moving over an obstacle is commonly seen as different or scary as a child, but is a common way to approach obstacles. Remember when climbing a tree was as natural as walking, or jumping over a wall, or hopping the neighbor’s fence? We are conditioned to avoid doing those movements as we get older. We hear directives like “get off of that” or “don’t climb up there” and thus we were conditioned only to retreat around obstacles, and trees became only for sitting under.
 

Going Under Something

We spend plenty of time down on the ground crawling around looking for things we dropped on the floor, or having to duck under obstacles to get from one side to another. Exercise on the Railyard makes us do these things. In an age where we are taught to bend a certain way or we are told to lift with our legs, we are more and more conditioned to the world above our waist. The act of picking something up sets into motion an instruction booklet of procedures, rather than instincts. When did getting down on the floor or bending over become such a chore? No doubt, it has something to do with all of the back pain alarmists and our own fear that bending is somehow an unnatural movement. We begin to believe that the body is not designed to move under things. Even worse, we think that it is so fragile that it must be supported at all times when bending. Now is the time to teach our children that their body can do all these things and much, much more. Let's instill in them, the confidence that they can do anything once they set their mind to it. Have you ever heard the phrase “If you don’t use it, you lose it”? That’s not just a cliché. It is the absolute truth. Look around you at all the people with dysfunctional bodies who depend on others to get them around and do simple tasks for them. That is the worst-case scenario. A more common scenario is people who are afraid to move freely into those natural positions for fear of pulling a muscle or damaging some other connective tissue. We become rigid and apprehensive to move, thus we don’t move like we are meant to move. That’s when we get hurt, because we have not kept our bodies in condition to perform any functional movement. We have an opportunity and an obligation as professionals to provide children with programs that will positively affect this generation's posture and attitudes towards fitness as a positive and enjoyable experience.

Going Around Something

 
If life were just forward and backward, we would constantly be waiting in lines. Moving side to side or around obstacles is already a part of our common, everyday function. If we are walking down a sidewalk and someone is walking right towards us, one of us has to go around. Just living in our house or shopping at a store, we have to move around furniture, toys, boxes, or equipment that is in our way. We zig zag in the name of efficiency. Therefore, we need to be agile and be able to switch directions—forward, backward, sideways—with ease. Exercise on the Railyard will teach and prepare children how to do these things.

The Result

The Result is physical improvement in your student’s strength, cardiovascular fitness, agility, coordination, balance, speed, endurance, flexibility, and posture. There is also physiological improvement in self-esteem, body awareness, and confidence. All are good things for a child.

Functional fitness, a physical conditioning method, has become the standard for fitness programs over the past decade. By definition, functional conditioning will prepare children to optimally function in any sporting activity or in the course of their daily life. Whether they're on the field, a court, riding a bike, a skateboard, running after a pet, or mowing the yard, they are physically required to move in multiple planes, twisting rotationally, stabilizing and balancing to keep from falling over, accelerating and de-accelerating, squatting, ducking, jumping and crawling. Exercises on the Railyard duplicate all these motions and will strengthen your students in a way that they will be able to perform these tasks in a more precise and functionally correct manner. Exercise on the Railyard will allow students to perform in all aspects of their life with more confidence, and with a greatly reduced chance of injury. Observe children at play and you will see every possible movement a body can be called upon to facilitate, and some movements that do not seem possible. This is the primary reason the Railyard is becoming the standard by which all exercise products in the physical education market are gauged. Not only does the Railyard provide a platform for truly functional fitness, it is fun! Ask any physical educator or early childhood academic and they will tell you, if the program is not fun, children will not be engaged, and if they are not engaged, the efforts will be fruitless.

 
Whether you teach kindergarten or 12th grade, exercise on the Railyard has something for your students—results like you’ve never see before!

In Conclusion

 
The Railyard Conditioning Course can be added to your program to create an added challenge and element of fun to your environment. Within minutes of setting up your Railyard, your students will be leaping, ducking, and crawling, like a professional football player.  The Railyard includes an easy to read and even easier to follow instruction manual anyone can use to lead a successful and exciting exercise class.  Then, use your imagination to guide your students into playful movement that comes natural. Overcome their fears and limitations and let them play again. The Railyard is the ultimate training ground for students. Exercise on the Railyard will give your children a solid physical foundation upon which they can build the skills they need to live a full, functional, and movement rich life.

Watch this Railyard Obstacle Course YouTube video featured on Bootcamp for Kids website:   http://bootcampforkids.net/railyard-obstacle-course-for-physical-education-and-kids-exercise

To get a Railyard Conditioning Course or Serius Strap of your own, contact:
Railyard Fitness: 1-877-787-0222  or email us at customersupport@railyardfitness.com