Kids Fitness Expert, Larissa Maloney has your solution to keeping your kids healthy and off the couch!
One of the most common struggles amongst parents, especially throughout the last year, has been keeping their children active. With gyms and schools closed or restricted, parents were scrambling to prevent their children from turning into couch potatoes. Luckily for you, Active Kids 2.0, a virtual on-demand physical education program, is the perfect way to get your kids moving in a safe way. Larissa Maloney, founder of Active Kids 2.0, utilized her fifteen years of experience as an educator and coach to curate a phenomenal virtual fitness and wellness platform to help get your kids active and off the couch and off their gaming devices.
Maloney has been passionate about fitness, wellness and sports, particularly volleyball, basketball and track, for just about her entire life. She attended Lynn University on a volleyball scholarship and even went on to play professional beach volleyball after graduation. Maloney decided to share her talent and passion with her physical education students at Father Lopez Catholic High School. She also continues to display her love of sports as the high school’s volleyball coach.
When covid-19 hit the United States and was declared a global pandemic in March 2020, Maloney was presented with a challenge, teaching fitness classes outside of the school gym or field. Maloney understands the importance of physical education thus discovered creative and innovative ways to get her students active even through a screen. She began live streaming at home workouts out of her Central Florida garage where her videos quickly gained popularity.
Maloney also started a podcast that she uses as a platform to mentor and inspire young female athletes around the world. The feedback and response she received has overjoyed Maloney as her goal was to keep everyone as happy and healthy as possible during these trying times. Maloney is also a mom who just like many of you is trying her hardest to keep her kids off the couch.
Inspired by her work with her students and children, Maloney started Active Kids 2.0, which is now a rapidly growing virtual fitness platform used by both parents and children every single day. With a myriad of courses such as gymnastics, boxing, ballet, hip-hop dance, cheer, karate, cardio, strength, and yoga, there is definitely one out there that is perfect for your family.
Check out their free trial classes to see which one is your best fit prior to signing up. These classes are about twenty to thirty minutes long and offered throughout the day leaving plenty of flexibility for parents with even the busiest schedules. This platform is also a wonderful option as physical education classes for homeschooled children or those who opted for online learning due to the pandemic.
Active Kids 2.0 carefully ensures their classes appeal to children of all ages and even offer toddler time for the little ones. Parents are also encouraged to participate in these classes with their children, which helps their engagements and makes for long lasting memories.
Maloney has employed a team of experts to lead all of her class sessions. Each teacher and coach ensures that their classes are engaging, inclusive, and fun. They also provide a way for children to socialize and interact with one another from the safety of their own home. Socialization, much like physical activity, is crucial for development. This has made it hard for children to adjust to online learning away from their teachers and peers. Maloney and her team hope that their classes allow their students to have a fun, socially distant experience while achieving their physical fitness goals.
Maloney’s story and mindset are truly inspiring. Starting a business amidst a global pandemic is definitely not for the faint of heart, but this fitness expert gave her all to her idea.