Family Friendly Fitness - Plans in the works

We just had a quick planning session and had the following thoughts:

• We will start our sessions at Duffield Reserve on Russell St, Rosewater because we will be able to do exercise within the fenced area. However, Duffield will be under construction for a couple months starting in January, so we will move to St Patricks or elsewhere for that time.
• The preliminary plan for kid wrangling is that we will plan for 45 minute exercise sessions, and on the day take 10-15 minute rotating shifts of focusing on the kids. That way hopefully everyone gets to do 30 minutes of exercise! Of course if there are older kids or other adults who want to come along and supervise the kids, that's great too. And we can just trial other options as we go!
• The types of exercises will be mostly stationary (and could potentially be done by whoever is looking after the kids) and won't require any equipment.
• For on the day communication we will set up a whatsapp group at the first session, the sole purpose of which is to check in about who is coming (through a poll) and any last minute changes on the day. This is because other project groups have found that Facebook is too unreliable for this.
• Our extreme hot weather policy can be to make it an aquarobics session at Lisa or Mad's place in Rosewater! We will just have to be flexible and creative along the way when it comes to weird weather, with last minute changes communicated via the whatsapp group.
• We'll kick off as soon as possible (when Lisa no longer has covid!) 
• Family Friendly Fitness sessions will be open to anyone. Our goal is to make it possible for local parents to do exercise whilst getting to know each other and build community in the process. We love the thought that we get to do something that is great for our wellbeing, whilst also contributing to the sense of connection and local relationships our kids experience.

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