By Alison Crane
Are you familiar with the cult classic show, H. R. Pufnstuf? The TV show featured a cast of puppets and people in cumbersome costumes with Jack Wild and Billie Hayes singing and dancing their way around Living Island. I was given a record of the Pufnstuf movie when I was young and listened to it constantly for years (I still have it). Anyway, lyrics from the song, “If I Could,” have stuck with me through the years.
“If I could I would be a balloon, that a little kid let go, floating through the sky, flying free, If I could…”
May is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month and you might wonder what does that have to do with Pufnstuf? But really it has more than you might think. The benefits of being physically active are too numerous to list in this article, but only about 70% of Arkansans are participating in any physical activity. So I ask you… if you could, what would you do?
Maybe it’s time you discover your motives to move. Knowing the source of your motivations can help you incorporate daily physical activity into your lifestyle. The Garland County Extension office has several resources for helping people to get started toward physical fitness. We have an exercise program, Extension Get Fit, which only costs $20 per year and we have a useful handout called “Discovering Motives to Move” that assists with identifying motives that may be important to you.
Call 501-623-6841 or visit our office at 236 Woodbine for more details. Like us on Facebook @GarlandFCS or @garlandEGF.
Alison Crane is a Family and Consumer Science Agent with the Garland County Extension Service. The Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service offers its programs to all eligible persons regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, gender, age, disability, marital or veteran status, or any other legally protected status, and is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.
