intensity, and warm-up guidelines discussed in the Personal Fitness merit badge pamphlet. Before beginning your exercises, have the program approved by your counselor and parents.
The Personal Fitness merit badge emphasizes the importance of having a balance in the four areas of physical fitness. It’s like a stool with four legs; if one leg is shorter than the others, the stool won’t be stable. In the same way, if you focus too much on one area of fitness...
Requirements for the Personal Management merit badge: Do the following: Choose an item that your family might want to purchase that is considered a major expense. Write a plan that tells how your family would save money for the purchase identified in requirement 1a. Discuss the plan with your...
The Personal Fitness Merit Badge is earned by Scouts who take an active role in their own physical health and understand the requirements of a fit lifestyle
They also had cardio-metabolic profiles taken using the Cholestech LDX analyzer, performed health-related fitness testing, and received a pedometer to measure free-living physical activity for 1 week. The boys completed the merit badge over 12 weeks and returned to a final class to again be ...