Health

Fitness: You Have No Excuses

Follow this total-body workout now to ready your muscles for outdoor adventure with your troop or crew.

Health

Lighten Your Load

A five-step plan to help you stick with your New Year’s resolutions to lose weight and exercise.

Health

Fat Chance

People who recite the Boy Scout Oath promise to keep themselves ‘physically strong.’ That goes for adult leaders, too. It’s time for you and your Scouts to get fitter and faster—and avoid missing out on Scouting’s greatest adventures.

Backpacking & Hiking

Fitness: Train for the Trail

Try this easy, no-gym exercise routine to lose weight and get fit for backpacking.

Health

From the CSE

Push your Scouts away from the table … and the remote control. As I travel to councils across the country, I often speak about the health of our young people and the challenges of the growing problem of youth obesity.

Camping

Outdoor Smarts: The Skin Game

Want to play it safe when enjoying fun-in-the-sun Scouting this summer? Here’s how to protect your body from harmful, cancer-causing UV rays.

Health

Keep Your Child Safe This Summer

Parents can avoid most summertime trips to the doctor’s office — or worse, the hospital — by following these simple safety precautions with their children.

Cooking

Advice on safe food storage while camping

Scouter B.W.M. is concerned that his Scouts are careless in the way they handle food. He asked how to teach safe food-handling and dishwashing procedures.