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Page 1: Four Fun Ways to Keep Your Little One Interested in Kids Fitness

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Four Fun Ways to Keep Your Little One Interested in Kids Fitness

Children by nature would rather sit at home in front of the television and not

have to worry about doing any physical activity.

It is imperative that we get our children active and involved and not allow them to live a sedentary lifestyle. Their health is important and we need to do everything we can to promote being healthy and living the appropriate lifestyle for years to come.

The more we can get them involved at a young age, the better it is going to be for them as they get older. If your children just don’t seem interested in fitness, there are a few different things that you can do to help promote the importance of the activity and get them involved.

Four ways to get your children involved in fitness include:

1. Have you spoken with your child’s coach recently? Are they having any difficulty in adapting with the sport or performing at an age appropriate level? If your child is having any difficulties, you and your child’s coach should develop a plan to help your child overcome the difficulty and encourage your child in a positive way.

Page 2: Four Fun Ways to Keep Your Little One Interested in Kids Fitness

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826 Scarsdale Avenue Scarsdale, NY 10583 (914) 713- 1113

You and the coach should be able to come up with a fun way to be able to make exercise fun and rewarding, so that way your child wants to be a part of it.

2. Become a part of your child’s sports. There are always plenty of opportunities for you to get involved with coaching, refereeing and clean up after sporting events. You will often find that there

is a need for preparing snacks and serving them to the other students in the program. This will show your child that you want to be a part of the activity and that you are willing to participate and be a part of the team as well.

3. Take the time to host an event with your child’s team and invite them all to your home. You can even have a sleepover with a few of the children and implement healthy snacks that everyone can enjoy. There is also the opportunity to have fun games and activities that make the children have to get up and do different

things that involve physical activity. This will help to promote a healthy lifestyle within the kids because they will see that fitness can be fun and rewarding all at the same time.

4. Take a lot of photos of the different events and display them so that your child will be able to see how much fun the other children are having getting involved in the activity. When they see others being involved and having fun, they will want to be a part of it as well. Make a collage of all of the different things that

your child is doing, so that way they will be able to see how interested you are and adapt that into their lifestyle. They will want to partake in the activity to share their success with others.


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