Family Time Fitness

Family Time Fitness is a Pre-K through high school physical education curriculum delivered through a digital subscription with hundreds of lesson plans and accompanying video demonstrations.

Last updated: 2026-04-24 · Every Homeschool Editorial Team

At a glance

Method	Subject-specialist (video-demonstrated physical education)
Worldview	Secular (faith-neutral)
Grades	PreK through 12 (core program weighted K-8)
Formats	Digital (video lessons, printable activity cards, PDFs)
Cost tier	Budget
Parent intensity	3 (parent supervises and participates)
ESA-common	Yes (typically eligible as PE coverage)
Accredited	No (materials only)
Established	Around 2010 (a 2010-2013 copyright notice appears on an archived copy of the site)
Website	familytimefitness.com (showed an account-suspended page when checked in October 2026; archived copy, February 2026)

Our scoreboard (1-5)

Criterion	Score	One-line reason
Academic rigor	3	Appropriate for PE; not a kinesiology or health-science course
Ease of teaching	4	Video-demonstrated lessons; minimal prep required
Content quality	4	Covers motor skills, fitness, sports skills, and health concepts at grade-appropriate depth
Flexibility	5	Ready-made lessons can be run on short notice and while travelling, per the publisher
Value for money	4	Annual subscription in the tens of dollars rather than hundreds
Worldview scope	5	Secular PE with no worldview content to negotiate
Visual/design	3	Video production is functional; activity cards are clean and usable
Support resources	3	Printable assessments, certificates, and extension activities; no live instructor

Who the publisher is

The publisher's About Us page says the curriculum was developed because no pre-planned homeschool physical education curriculum was available. The author worked with Mike Hanik, MEd, a youth fitness specialist and Instructional Assistant Professor in the Department of Health and Kinesiology at Texas A&M University, who is listed as co-founder and vice president of curriculum development on the archived team page. An archived 2013 copy of the site carries a 2010-2013 copyright notice (archived), which is the basis for dating the company to around 2010.

The company's core offering is the Fitness 4 Homeschool program, a web-access subscription. The archived product page lists two core physical education levels (ages 5 to 10 and ages 11 to 13) of 156 lesson plans each, with instruction videos, more than 750 printables with answer keys and tests, a high school strength and conditioning program, a 12-week online health class, and 57 e-books. The archived homepage says the program includes a scope and sequence intended to help families meet homeschool physical education requirements.

The publisher positions itself as faith-neutral. There is no religious content in the curriculum, no opening prayer in the video segments, no worldview framing around the body or health. In our assessment, families of any worldview can use the program without adaptation. Family Time Fitness is structurally agnostic.

The core pedagogy

The program's pedagogical premise is that a homeschool parent with a living room, a driveway, or a small backyard can deliver a reasonable elementary and middle school PE course if given a scripted lesson plan, a video of what the activity looks like, and a short list of supplies. The supplies are minimal: a playground ball, a jump rope, chalk, painter's tape on the floor, a beanbag, a hula hoop. Most lessons use equipment a family already owns or can acquire for under fifty dollars total.

The daily lesson is structured in predictable segments: a short warm-up, a fitness-focused activity (cardio, strength, flexibility), a motor-skill or sports-skill activity (throwing, catching, dribbling, jumping), a cool-down, and an optional extension or assessment. Total active time is roughly 30-45 minutes depending on the grade level and the family's pacing. The curriculum spans 260 lessons, which at one per school day is a full year.

Signature mechanics: (1) Video demonstration per activity. Every activity in the curriculum has a short demonstration video that performs the movement with clear verbal cues. (2) Minimal equipment requirement. A family without gym access can run the entire curriculum. Lessons are designed for indoor-space constraints as well as outdoor. (3) Printable activity cards. Each lesson's activities are available as printable cards, useful for a parent running a co-op class or a family with multiple children in different grades. (4) Assessment forms. Fitness and skills assessments are included and can be used for state reporting or for family-internal progress tracking.

What they do exceptionally well

Fills the PE slot without drama. In our assessment, the largest benefit of Family Time Fitness is that it removes the PE question from a homeschool family's to-do list. For families who want to say "yes, we did PE" and move on, the program is turnkey.

Parent-friendly video. In our assessment, the demonstration videos help a non-athletic parent who cannot perform a motor skill themselves. The video performs the skill; the parent supervises and participates.

Cost structure. The one-year web-access subscription was listed at $99.95, with a limited-time price of $57 on the publisher's homepage as of February 2026 (archived copy), with multi-year bundles also offered.

Worldview-neutral content. The curriculum is free of religious framing, free of political framing around body image or health ideology, and free of any integration with a broader worldview program. In our assessment, the program keeps PE focused on movement, fitness, and motor skill.

What they do poorly

Not a health science course. Family Time Fitness is a PE curriculum. It is not a health curriculum, not a nutrition curriculum, not an anatomy-and-physiology introduction, not a substance-abuse-prevention program. Families needing to satisfy a state health-education requirement separate from PE will need a companion resource. This is not unusual for homeschool PE programs but is worth flagging.

Video production is older. In our assessment, some video segments show their production age, and audio quality varies. Families accustomed to the polish of a modern streaming fitness app may find Family Time Fitness looks homemade. The content is accurate and instructional; the packaging is not 2026 production-studio grade.

No live instruction or community component. The program is pre-recorded video and printable materials. There is no live class, no instructor office hours, no student-to-student interaction, no sports-team structure. Families seeking the social component of PE, team play, competition, instructor feedback, must source it separately, for example through a co-op sports league, a Classical Conversations community, a YMCA youth program, or a local parks-and-recreation league.

Sports-skill depth is limited. A student who completes Family Time Fitness for eight grades has moved through motor-skill fundamentals, general fitness, and introductory sports skills, but is not a trained athlete in any specific sport. Families with a competitive-sport aspiration for their student will not find Family Time Fitness sufficient on its own and should plan to combine the home program with sport-specific coaching.

Who it fits / who it doesn't

• Pick Family Time Fitness if: you need to satisfy a state PE documentation requirement without designing a program yourself; you want a low-cost subscription that covers multiple years; you have a small indoor or outdoor space and cannot or do not want to join a gym; you want a secular, worldview-neutral fitness program; you want video demonstrations because you do not want to teach the physical skills yourself.

• Skip Family Time Fitness if: your child is a serious competitive athlete who needs sport-specific coaching; you want a health-and-wellness course that integrates nutrition, anatomy, and health education alongside fitness; you want live instruction or a cohort experience; you have access to a strong local co-op, sports league, or homeschool athletic association that already covers PE; your state requires a formal health credit that PE alone does not satisfy.

Cost honest assessment

The Family Time Fitness annual web-access subscription was listed at $99.95 for one year, with a limited-time price of $57 as of February 2026 (archived copy), and the publisher also offered a special five-year option. The publisher claims the content would cost approximately $1,800 if purchased as separate pieces (archived product page); this is a marketing number rather than a comparable alternative.

Compared to Christian Light Education health/PE (full textbook program at approximately $40-$60 per grade), Family Time Fitness sits at the budget end of the category. For a family with multiple children spanning PreK through middle school, it is a low-cost complete PE option.

A realistic all-in for one year of PE for a K-8 family running Family Time Fitness runs $57-$100 for the subscription plus roughly $20-$50 for basic equipment (balls, jump ropes, beanbags, cones).

ESA eligibility notes

Family Time Fitness is a secular PE curriculum, which simplifies ESA eligibility. Most state ESA programs cover PE as a qualifying expense, and Family Time Fitness has appeared on ClassWallet vendor lists in several states including Arizona, Utah, and West Virginia. The publisher's secular framing avoids the religious-content restrictions that complicate purchase of Christian curricula under certain state rules. Families should verify Family Time Fitness appears on their specific state marketplace or should purchase through an already-approved retailer and submit for reimbursement. For families whose state program does not explicitly cover physical education, Family Time Fitness is typically reimbursable under broader "curriculum and educational materials" categories.

Alternatives

• The Good and the Beautiful Health and Safety, a family would pick The Good and the Beautiful Health and Safety over Family Time Fitness to combine a health-education component with PE framing, at the cost of adopting the publisher's broader worldview approach.
• Local YMCA or parks-and-recreation league, a family would pick a local YMCA youth program over Family Time Fitness for live instruction, team play, and a cohort experience the home program cannot provide, at a higher cost and with scheduling commitments the digital subscription does not require.

How we verified this

Our editorial team reviewed archived copies of the Family Time Fitness homepage (February 2026), the Fitness 4 Homeschool product page (December 2023), the company About page (November 2024), and the archived team page; the publisher's website showed an account-suspended page when checked in October 2026. We cross-referenced against the Homeschool.com resource guide listing, independent review coverage, and the Rainbow Resource catalog listing for the publisher's products. Pricing is taken from the archived February 2026 homepage.