Final up to date on January twenty ninth, 2025
Lindsey Marcelli was disillusioned when she couldn’t discover a coloring ebook that includes a barbell for her three youngsters.
- “My youngsters love to paint, and I needed them to have the ability to coloration what they love. They get pleasure from understanding with us. They’ve their very own little barbell,” stated Marcelli, who has been doing CrossFit since 2007 and was an affiliate proprietor for eight years.
Additional, Marcelli got here throughout a statistic that actually obtained to her.
- “Just one in 4 youngsters are assembly the really useful every day quantity of bodily exercise,” she stated.
So, she took issues into her personal palms.
- “I knew there needed to be a greater strategy to encourage motion,” she stated. “I needed to create one thing that blended creativity, motion, and a constructive mindset, making bodily exercise really feel much less like a chore and extra like play.”
The consequence: Marcelli has now printed 5 books in her Color Me Stronger Collection and is engaged on extra.
- “The gathering retains rising. I really like asking my youngsters what they need, and we develop on that,” Marcelli stated. She can be the founding father of each Girls GoneRX and Compete for a Cure, which work collectively to boost cash for breast most cancers.
She added: “I’m the writer and creator behind the books, however my youngsters and hubby are the actual bosses…These books are really for them, and having our whole household a part of the artistic course of makes the mission much more particular.”
The Particulars
The 5 books within the sequence have coloring and activity-book elements, however additionally they function an academic instrument to encourage youngsters to develop into keen on health.
- “Our ABC ebook, for instance, turns studying right into a enjoyable household bonding expertise, mixing schooling with quarter-hour of motion that doesn’t really feel like a structured exercise. It looks like pure enjoyable,” Marcelli stated. “By encouraging creativity via coloring and storytelling, whereas incorporating bodily challenges, we goal to create an expertise that engages each physique and thoughts, serving to youngsters construct lifelong wholesome habits via play.”
The Massive Image
Marcelli stated her final purpose is for all youngsters to see health as “enjoyable, accessible, and a part of on a regular basis life.”
- “Health isn’t nearly understanding,” she stated. “It’s about constructing confidence and resilience and discovering pleasure via motion. If youngsters can’t see it, they’ll’t be it. Combining creativity and health felt like the proper strategy to spark that inspiration.”
She’s effectively on her approach. To date, Marcelli has bought a number of hundred copies of her books throughout completely different platforms, together with Amazon, and direct gross sales at varied occasions.
- “And each time we launch a brand new version, it ranks within the prime 5 new releases in train and health for youngsters…This proves that oldsters are anticipating sources that maintain their youngsters lively, wholesome, and having enjoyable whereas shifting,” Marcelli stated.
She added: “Every sale looks like a step ahead in making a more healthy, happier era.”
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