When Kusum Sinha, the superintendent of Garden City Public Schools in New York, took a trip this summer to Finland, Estonia and Sweden with other district leaders, she came back wishing she could ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." YOU MIGHT THINK back to your childhood gym class and remember learning the basics of physical fitness ...

The jumping jack is an effective way to stimulate all the vital muscles of your body. It is a full-body exercise used in cardio and warm-up sessions. Jumping jacks include resistance and aerobic ...

Things high school gym class was good for: gossiping, checking out your wanna-be S.O. in track shorts, and kinda-sorta learning basic exercises. Jumping jacks were one such staple of P.E., and for ...

While you may not have thought about jumping jacks since grade school, the health benefits of this simple move continue well into adulthood. "Jumping jacks have a wealth of benefits like mobility, ...

The amount of calories you burn doing jumping jacks can vary based on how long or how fast do you them, as well as on personal factors that affect your metabolism. Jumping jacks might seem like a ...