Athlete

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Webelos Athlete Activity Badge

Physical Skills Group

Requirements

Do these:

1. With your parent, guardian, or Webelos den leader, complete the Perseverance Character Connection.

a. Know: Review the requirements and decide which ones might be more difficult for you to do. Make a plan to complete one of the harder requirements.

b. Commit: When doing the harder requirement, did you ever feel frustrated or angry? What did perseverance have to do with that? Name another type of task for which you will need to persevere.

c. Practice: Practice perseverance by following your plan to do that requirement for the Athlete activity badge.

2. Explain what it means to be physically and mentally healthy.

3. Explain what you as a Webelos Scout can do to stay physically and mentally healthy.

4. Every time you work on requirement 5 below, start with at least 5 minutes of stretching warm-up activities.

5. Do as many as you can of the following and record your results. Show improvement in all of the activities after 30 days.

a. Have another person hold your feet down while you do as many curl-ups as you can.

b. Do as many pull-ups from a bar as you can.

c. Do as many push-ups from the ground or floor as you can.

d. Do a standing long jump as far as you can.

e. Do a quarter-mile run or walk.

And do two of these:

6. Do a vertical jump and improve your reach in 30 days.

7. Do a 50 yard dash as fast as you can, and show a decrease in time over a 30 day period.

8. Ride a bike 1 mile as fast as you can, and show a decrease in time over a 30 day period.

9. Swim a quarter mile in a pool or lake as fast as you can, and show a decrease in time over a 30 day period.

10. While you are a Webelos Scout, earn the Cub Scout Sports Physical Fitness pin.

Notes

badge.pdf A FREE workbook for Athlete is available here! with the maps, charts, links, diagrams, and checklists you need! Or click here to print just the Athlete requirements.

meritbadge.org has PDF and DOC versions of Scouts BSA merit badge workbooks, Webelos workbooks, Cub Scout workbooks, and Nova Award workbooks.

External Links

Webelos Activity Badges   (Worksheets)
These Activity Badges were replaced with Adventure Pins in 2015.

Physical Skills group: Aquanaut | Athlete | Fitness | Sportsman Mental Skills group: Artist | Scholar | Showman | Traveler Community group: Citizen | Communicator | Family Member | Readyman Technology group: Craftsman | Engineer | Handyman | Scientist Outdoor group: Forester | Geologist | Naturalist | Outdoorsman

Help with these requirements

Related awards

• Cub Scout Sports: Physical Fitness Belt Loop & Pin
• Physical Fitness Award
• Requirement 5 is similar to Tenderfoot Rank Requirements 10a & 10b
• Athletics, Personal Fitness, and Sports Merit Badges

External links

• Amateur-Sports.com
• American Dietetic Association
• American Heart Association
• Centers for Disease Control: Fit Family Fit Kids
• Fitness for Kids
• International Food Information Council Foundation
• KidsHealth
• National Athletic Trainer's Association
• ExpertVillage Exercise Videos:
  • Warm Up, Stretching, Running, Pull-Ups, Push-Ups, Basketball, Baseball, Football, Bench Press, Leg Curls

Webelos Activity Badges   (Worksheets)
These Activity Badges were replaced with Adventure Pins in 2015.

Physical Skills group: Aquanaut | Athlete | Fitness | Sportsman Mental Skills group: Artist | Scholar | Showman | Traveler Community group: Citizen | Communicator | Family Member | Readyman Technology group: Craftsman | Engineer | Handyman | Scientist Outdoor group: Forester | Geologist | Naturalist | Outdoorsman