Hello! I’m Charleszetta Smith Ford. Thanks for visiting my Directory Page.
I am a high-energy licensed physical education teacher, certified personal trainer, and author with over eighteen years of experience in the health and fitness field. After working in public schools for six years, I realized that the only way I could create an environment where students could have fun while exercising in a structured manner was to design my own large-scale youth-fitness program. I took a leap of faith and launched Better Bodies 4 Us, full time, in 2011.
Each week, I visit a different elementary school to implement my Youth Fitness program. Seeing my students’ excitement to exercise with me brings such joy to my heart and confirms, daily, that I am doing exactly what God has called me to do—changing lives one day at a time, physically, mentally, and spiritually.
My love for encouraging children to move motivated me to write my first book, B3 Goes to the Playground, last year. It is my hope that many children and families, near and far, will be motivated to exercise and enrich their lives together.
csmith@betterbodies4us.com
http://betterbodies4us.com
6209 Planters Wood Ln, Suite A
Mecklenburg
980-721-1866
Better Bodies 4 Children is an 8-week youth fitness program that meets 1-day per week. Our focus is on developing our students in the areas of healthy living, physical fitness, leadership, self-esteem and sportsmanship. This program begins and ends with a personal best challenge day in order to provide structure for setting goals, documenting benchmarks and reflecting on past success.
Our Youth Fitness Program is designed to help fight the childhood obesity epidemic that threatens to take the lives of so many children today. Each student’s strength, endurance and flexibility will increase while improving their locomotor, non-locomotor and manipulative skills. Also, this program desires to encourage our youth to have a better outlook on what they can do in order to live a healthy life.
The students will complete an engaging STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) activity which will reinforce the importance of a healthy mind and body connection; aerobic fitness stations that include but are not limited to: push-ups, curl-ups, crab walk, frog jumps, and jumping jacks; obstacel course; obstacle course stations that challenge students to jump over hurdles, crawl through hula hoops, tumble down mats and walk along ropes; and relays. Each activity will give our youth the opportunity to have fun while exercising in a non-competitive, fun-loving environment. Because of the fun that the students will experience while exercising, it is our hope that they will share all that they learn and do with their family and friends. The overall goal of Better Bodies 4 Us is to encourage our community to start moving together.
Charleszetta Ford
980-721-1866
csmith@betterbodies4us.com
August 2019 – May 2020
9a – 2p; Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays
Unavailable on Tuesdays or Thursdays
Gym space
On-site (we travel to your school)
7 class minimum for this program but not required to book consecutive weeks. Total cost for program:
$3,150 for 3 groups; no more than 75 students
$2,100 for 2 groups; no more than 50 students
$1560 for 1 group; 25 or less students
For groups larger than 25 students, they will be split into 2 groups and will exercise for 30 minutes each.
R1 – Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. W7 – Conduct short research projects based on focused questions, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation. SL1 – Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
MS1 – Apply competent motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities (in our case, students will engage in activities such as aerobic fitness stations and obstacle courses). MC2 – Understand concepts, principles, strategies and tactics that apply to the learning and performance of movement (in our case, students will use the concepts of the straight and zigzag pathways and the forward and sideway directions during organized games, relays and obstacle course challenges). PR4 – Use behavioral strategies that are responsible and enhance respect of self and others and value activity (in our case, students will demonstrate their understanding of basic strategies and concepts for working cooperatively as partners or in group settings as they engage in activities such as partner toss, aerobic fitness stations and organized games).
50% of fee must be paid if date is cancelled less than 10 days prior to scheduled date and we are unable to find a time to reschedule. Please call as early as possible to reschedule.