UltraFit Fitness Bars

It’s easy to incorporate fitnes bars into routines your students already know, giving them a seamless segue into weight training. The 48"L bar offers just enough resistance to increase the effects of these movements, yet won’t hamper a student’s ability to complete them properly. They can even be used in cardio routines to add a strength-building component!

Bars are easy to grip, lightweight, and coated in premium textured foam to eliminate any fear of participation. Foam coating over the solid steel center bar is friendly on hands and shoulders, and resists picking and tearing during routine use. 

Squared end caps prevent rolling when bars are not in use. End caps are also color-coded, and a molded-in weight marker provides instant selection of the right bar.

15 Skill-Building PE Activities Using UltraFit Fitness Bars

The UltraFit Fitness Bars are lightweight, color-coded bars designed to add safe, controlled resistance to a variety of physical education activities. Ranging from 2.5 to 15 lb, these foam-padded bars are ideal for teaching proper movement mechanics, strength training fundamentals, posture alignment, and coordination. Their soft, grippy texture ensures safety and ease of use for students of all ages and skill levels. The balanced design makes them perfect for integrating into dynamic workouts, skill circuits, or functional fitness games that promote physical literacy.

Below are 15 versatile and imaginative activity ideas using UltraFit Fitness Bars to develop fundamental movement skills such as balancing, pushing, pulling, lifting, twisting, turning, and combining locomotor movements with resistance. Each activity is scalable for elementary, middle, and high school students, and is suitable for both small and large group settings.

1. Bar Balance Beam Walk: Students hold the bar overhead and walk heel-to-toe across a taped line or low beam. Focuses on static and dynamic balance.

2. Lift & Leap Ladder: Students lift the bar overhead, then leap forward over Rainbow Agility Ladder rungs. Combines power with upper-body control.

3. Rainbow Bar Relay: Teams race while carrying a color-coded bar and completing strength tasks at checkpoints. Encourages teamwork and functional strength.

4. Core Control Press: Students sit in a V-sit and perform overhead bar presses. Enhances core stability and pushing strength.

5. Clean, Carry & Crawl: Students “clean” the bar to chest level, carry it while crab crawling across the gym. Develops upper-body strength and coordination.

6. March & Press Parade: Students march in place while pressing the bar overhead rhythmically. Combines locomotor movement and coordination.

7. Jump, Press & Pivot: Jump in place, press the bar overhead, and pivot 180° on landing. Builds power and directional control.

8. Partner Pass & Press: Students pass the bar to a partner, then both perform an overhead press before repeating. Builds cooperation and rhythm.

9. Bar Over-Under Relay: Teams pass the bar over the head of one student and under the legs of the next, relay-style. Encourages teamwork and coordination.

10. Standing Twist & Tap: Hold the bar horizontally and twist to tap cones on each side. Reinforces trunk rotation and lateral flexibility.

11. Overhead Obstacle Limbo: Students walk under a suspended bar while holding their own bar overhead. Focuses on posture, control, and spatial awareness.

12. Wall Sit Push Press: While holding a wall sit, students press the bar repeatedly. Combines lower-body endurance with upper-body strength.

13. Figure 8 Core Swings: Holding the bar, students move it in a figure 8 pattern around their torso while in a partial squat. Enhances coordination and posture control.

14. High-Low Pulse Circuit: Students alternate slow pulses between overhead bar lifts and low squats with the bar. Encourages strength and muscular endurance.

15. Jump & Jab Game: Students jump forward and jab the bar outward like a sword strike. Builds power, timing, and movement fun.