Exercise Improves Your Child’s Health
There are many great benefits of adding 60 minutes of exercise into your child’s daily routine. Are you aware that the childhood obesity rates have tripled over the last 30 years according to the CDC? The CDC claims that children are spending more time in front of the television, playing video games, or spending excessive amounts of time on the computer. Instead, of spending time outside playing or exercising. Exercise can help reduce your child’s risk for obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, strokes, type two diabetes, depression, anxiety, certain cancers, arthritis, and falls.
Creative Ways to Get Your Children More Active
If your child isn’t very active there are lots of ways to get your child off of the couch and get them moving, especially, during the summer or winter months when going outside might seem impossible. Check out this great list of ideas:
- Walking
- Jump Rope
- Running
- Team Sports
- Bicycling
- Hiking
- Dancing
- Aerobics
- Zumba
- Yoga
- Rock Climbing
- Jumping on a Trampoline
- Wii Fit
- X-box Kinect
- Jogging
- Roller Skating
- In-line Skating
- Going to the Park
- Freeze Tag
- Hide and Seek
- Relay Races
- Gymnastics
- Don’t Let the Balloon Touch the Floor
- Karate
- Swimming
- Stretching
- and so many more ideas.
Adding an exercise program into your child’s daily schedule doesn’t have to be overwhelming or impossible. There are lots of ways motivate your children to get more active and exercising more. Parents, if possible, join your children and help improve your overall health and well being.
Can I challenge you and your family to add 30 to 60 minutes of exercise into your daily routine?
Comments
6 responses to “3 Great Benefits of Increased Physical Activity and Ways to Encourage Your Child to Be More Active”
Great post! So many people undervalue physical activity. It does so much more than help you with weight loss and learn to be active. (And schools need to remember how important recess is for this very reason!) I love to workout and when I don’t fit it in, I feel like a slug..so I’ve felt like a slug for four days now! I miss my runs!
Kids naturally want to be active so I think encouraging them is a great idea
I love the list of creative ways to get the kiddos moving. There’s bound to be something for everyone on there. Great message to share!
Being active is VERY important. We like to have dance offs with the kids and when the weather is nice we are always outdoors.
I worked hard to make sure my kids exercised when they were younger. At times, it was a huge battle; they’d rather play video games. Now that they’re teens, they’re finally owning their exercise. One of my sons disciplines himself to do a series of strength training exercises at night. He also rides his bike a lot. The other son has just started taking exercise seriously. He didn’t listen to my input, but he read something online that convinced him. Whatever works, lol! My daughter isn’t quite as enthusiastic; hopefully soon.
I’ve always insisted my kids exercise–and it’s always been a struggle. They would prefer to sit at the computer for hours. It’s worth hanging in there, though. My son (16) now is self-motivated, doing a series of strength training exercises each night. He rides his bike and hikes, too. In the end, my nagging paid off!