Fitness Badge #1: With your parent, guardian, or Webelos den leader, complete the Health and Fitness Character Connection.

Know: Tell why it is important to be healthy, clean, and fit.

It's important to be healthy because it feels bad to be sick. When you're sick, your body feels like you're about to puke out your intestines. And when you stay healthy, you are able to do anything like baseball, skateboard, and playing with your friends (unless they're sick too).

It's important to be clean because being dirty can make you sick.

It's important to be fit because you'd get lazy if you don't exercise, which can make you fat. If you have too much fat on your body, you can get sick and it makes your body harder to keep up. Your heart has to work harder to keep you alive.

Commit: Tell when it is difficult for you to stick with good health habits. Tell where you can go to be with others who encourage you to be healthy, clean, and fit.
When you're dirty you feel so free, that it's not always fun to take a bath. But my parents, cub scout friends and my doctors and nurses encourage me to stay clean and that makes me healthy.

Practice: Practice good health habits while doing the requirements for this

activity badge.