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LEARN THAT FIT IS FUN! to Fitness
Fitne ss Fever
Thanks to the WAVE Fitness program,
VPK students across Manatee County
are catching the exercise bug. “We
started in the summer with Phase One,
and we’re now in Phase Two of the
program,” explains Butch Klemeyer,
Program Director of WAVE Fitness, which
and implemented by the Athletix Human
Performance team who are located at their
state-of-the-art facility on the Manatee side
of the county line near Sarasota Airport
The Fall program runs from September
18 through December 15 for nearly
200 VPK students at A Readiness
Learning Academy 1, A Readiness
Learning Academy 2, Kinnan Elementary,
Blackburn Elementary, and Palmetto
Elementary.
during the summer with our schoolage
camp program,” explains Deborah
Ludwig, owner of A Readiness Learning
Academy and ELC board member. “The
looked forward to the trainers’ visits. Our
pre-kindergartners are experiencing the
same excitement and advantage now.”
“We’re modeling after a successful
program that’s been in effect for about
seven years up in the Tallahassee area,”
says Klemeyer. “The idea is you start to
expose young children to 45 minutes
of vigorous exercise that teaches them
proper movement or mobility along
with gaining some of the core strength
and stability that allows them to pick up
coordination faster.”