Fitness suggestions for your family

Fitness suggestions for your family

 Keep your family fit with fitness tips from Caitlin Reid.

Find a sport that suits your kids
Despite US-based research showing that children in normal weight are more likely to participate in sports activities than overweight or obese children, all children can play sports. If your child feels incompetent for ball game or football, you can try less common sports such as volleyball or badminton. 'Sporty' children are less likely to be interested in these sports, so that shy children will have the opportunity to practice, gain skills, increase their self-confidence and enjoy sports.

Be good role models
Do you sit down whenever you get the chance? If your answer is yes, it is unlikely that your children will be interested in exercising. Since the children imitate their families, the children whose parents emphasize exercise and have a healthy lifestyle will also proceed on this path. Talk positively to your children about exercise and encourage them to keep fit.

Stop 'finding flaws'
Offer your partner to help you be fit rather than nagging because he is lazy and lazy. Plan workouts you can do together - couples moving together stay together.
Actively go to work and school
A US-based study has revealed that children who go to school on foot or by bike are more active and have better cardiovascular health than children who go to school by car or go by public transport. If you live at a distance that cannot actively go all the way, you can go a part of the way like this.

Play together
Children are happy when their families take care of them and especially when they do activities. Take your kids to the park, run a ball together, teach them to swim or fly a kite. Socializing with your children will help them increase their self-confidence, and they will be more likely to maintain their activity during adulthood. As parents, you also benefit from quality times you will spend with your children.

Plan for all possibilities
We all have found excuses one way or another not to exercise and stay fit. We can argue that the weather is very cold or we are very tired. But these excuses sabotage our efforts to lead a healthy lifestyle. If the weather is rainy, you can get an exercise DVD and work at home or go to an indoor swimming pool. If you feel very tired, you can use it to be active as the exercise raises energy levels.

Make exercise accessible
Instead of buying video games, DVDs and other electronic items on family members' birthdays, you can give them jump ropes, tennis rackets, soccer balls, small balls and other exercise equipment you can think of. By keeping them accessible and visible, you can encourage your family to use it as much as possible.

Make it fun
Creative and fun exercise programs are more likely to involve your family. Instead of making the exercise a daily task, you can plan it as a fun day in the park, ride a bike or play tennis with the family.