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Mar 4

Kangoo shoes give kids a jump on fun, fitness

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It breaks her heart when she sees overweight children.

It bothers her when she hears kids talking about exercise as if it were a chore.

So Melanie Hendershot is doing something about it.

Im passionate about kids, she said. I want to help them find ways that are fun to be active.

Hendershot, 53, is co-founder of Spanaways Body Fun Fitness. As the little studio approaches its first anniversary in April, she is trying to provide more fitness options for children.

While, like many fitness studios, its classes like Zumba that brings in the most clients, Hendershot is finding that she has a knack for inspiring kids to exercise.

Like a parent who hides vegetables in the kids spaghetti, Hendershot is disguising exercise as something different for children.

She teaches a fitness course called Drums Alive, in which workouts are high-tempo drumming sessions.

But one of her favorite activities is to simply loan the kids a pair of spring-loaded shoes called Kangoo Jumps. The shoes, which have a football-shaped spring underfoot, are designed to reduce the impact of activities like jogging and jumping.

Its like a bouncing feeling, Hendershot said. Its a boing, boing, boing when you run instead of a pound, pound, pound.

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