New Year, New Fitness Routine! GiGiFIT Kids is coming to Portland!

Let’s face it: fitness is hard to keep up on. With all of our appointments, meetings, activities, chores, and physical challenges, finding time and energy to enjoy fitness as a family can feel almost insurmountable.

GiGi’s Playhouse Portland is proud to announce the launch of GiGiFIT Kids for the 2025 Spring season! This FREE fitness program was created by physical therapists to target the specific challenges that people with Down syndrome experience by building strength, balance, and stamina. Here at the Portland playhouse, we are lucky to welcome Kerry Haugh and her students from OHSU as our co-leads and assistants. Kerry has been a longtime supporter of GiGi’s, and comes with years of experience treating children with Down syndrome. 

But wait… What is GiGiFIT? This video from GiGi’s Playhouse Cleveland can answer that: 

From GiGi’s Playhouse INC: 

GiGiFIT Kids for 6-9-year-olds combines key movements from GiGiFIT Teen and advanced progressions of activities from GiGiFIT Preschoolers to help improve strength, balance, coordination, peer interaction and to build a lifelong love of physical activity. 

• Improve Physical Therapy Goals: Strength, Endurance, Joint Stability, Balance, Coordination, Sequencing, 
• Independent Practice, Lifetime of Participation 
• Improve Fitness: Strength, Endurance, Power, Stamina 
• Improve Balance and Coordination: Body Awareness, Joint Stability, Posture,  Movement Control 
• Introduce weekly, structured, purposeful exercise routine! 

✔️ Therapeutic 

✔️ Weekly 

✔️ Progressive 

✔️ Fun 

✔️ Family-friendly 

✔️ Free 

Still not convinced? Maybe extensive scientific research showing that exercise is massively beneficial to people with Down syndrome will help. 

Register to secure your spot: