Keeping It Simple And Fun Is The Key To Making Fitness Part Of The Family Routine

How Would you Describe Your Family’s Physical Activity?

Was your answer active enough? With most parents working 40 or more hours a week it’s hard to find ways to worry about adult fitness, let alone children’s fitness, but the reality is that families are struggling to stay fit. Like any other habit, teaching children to find time to be active is more easily accomplished when you lead by example. How can you find time to get your children to their sporting activities while making time for your own? Forget about exercising and have fun!

Make Fitness Fun

It’s a hundred times harder to be the only health-conscious person in your home, regardless of your age or role in the household. It’s much harder than working together to build a life that revolves around being active and healthy.

Every family needs to make together time a priority and coupling that with a fun, high energy activity will help you stay active together and teach your kids that play isn’t something you put away when you grow up. For most people, exercise is a chore, but play is a biologically vital activity. Getting up off the couch and replacing an hour of screen time with an hour of playtime will benefit your entire family.

Scout out a local park that has a big dry open space and coordinate regular exercise with other parents. Make sure your goal is clear, everybody plays and everybody has fun! Although it takes a little more coordination than other activities, teaching your kids and yourself the difference between living an active life full of play and exercise is sure to be priceless.

Depending on the age ranges, you can adjust the gameplay to make things a little fairer.