Big Brother's Big Sisters of Woodstock want to give kids a non-traditional way of exercising.
WOODSTOCK - Several community groups are coming together to help Big Brothers Big Sisters of Woodstock and District with their Active Life Soar program.
Group Program and Volunteer Coordinator James Rijneveld says it's a new concept which runs for 9 weeks.
"The ideal of Active Life Soar was to provide kids with non traditional physical fitness activities where they are having fun but also learned foundational ways of staying active, enjoying what they are doing while staying active and giving them ideas on healthy eating habits."
"We partnered with Woodstock Fitness and Racquet Club, Goodlife Fitness, Woodstock Badminton Club and Nate Picknell. Each partner are developing different fun activities for these kids whether it's an obstacle course or tug of war. Showing them that they can still be having fun by doing different physical activities."
Reijneveld says for himself growing up, he would get discouraged by traditional sports such as baseball and basketball and this is a way to help under privileged children learn about some of the other physical activities that are out there.
The program runs for nine weeks.

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