Tag Archives: family fitness

How to Get Your Kids in Shape

In a previous blog I detailed Olympic gold medallist Michael Phelps’ efforts to motivate kids to get moving. As part of his new mission to get kids interested in physical activity the swimming super star is making trips to community pools around the nation to highlight the value of fitness. Of course, the 23-year-old swimming phenom won’t be visiting every public pool in the United States so if you want to get your children off the couch and outside to burn off calories then you’re going to have to do some of the work yourself. This might be especially challenging … Continue reading →

Wii Love Bowling!

This past Christmas, we got our daughter a Nintendo Wii. I’ve actually been interested in getting one for more than a year, but besides being among the hardest to find game systems out there, it was also a little more of an expense than I felt like I needed to devote to myself, but after we got one for our nephew as a huge family gift, my daughter went crazy for it. When she wrote her letter to Santa, she asked for just six things and one of those was a Nintendo Wii. What Wii Love When I first wrote … Continue reading →

Top Ten Reasons to Engage in Family Fitness

I like top tens. One of the best things about them is you can print them out and put them somewhere you can see every day if you need to and because they help you to create motivation for yourself and for others. Today, we’re going to talk about family fitness as a whole. We discussed some family fitness ideas in the Personalized Workout for Busy Moms. But let’s focus on why we need to engage in family fitness. In no particular order, here are ten of the best reasons to make family fitness a focused activity for you and … Continue reading →

Personalized Workout for the Busy Mom

You asked for the answers and here we go. We talked about building the busy mom workout earlier today and now we’re going to build a personal program for the busy mom. As most of us know between our commitments to work, school and the kids, there are just never enough hours in the day. This workout program is designed to help you meet your goals despite the time crunch. It takes about a month to really get used to this so adjust your expectations accordingly. Sunday Take the family out for a brisk walk on Sunday. You can go … Continue reading →

Family Health and Fitness Day Is Coming!

Mark your calendar: Family Health and Fitness Day is coming Saturday, September 29th! Now in its eleventh year, Family Health and Fitness day is a chance for you and your family to be active together. Need some ideas for fun family activities? Here are a few things you and your family can do to celebrate Family Health and Fitness Day. Rent Dance Dance Revolution or another dancing game for your video game system. Challenge your feet and your brain by following the arrows to perform dances of varying complexity. You’ll definitely laugh at your missteps, and bur some serious calories … Continue reading →

Dear Heather … Need Some Creative Ideas

Dear Heather, We are looking for ways to be creative with our family fitness. We MUST do something low impact like bicycling or swimming because of previous injuries. So I am looking for creative swimming products and bicycling products that will allow all 7 of us to do something together. Swimming is a little easier because they have floaty things and swim suits that float and all that. Bicycling is more of a challenge. We are considering a tandem bike or some creative configuration that would allow us to pull the younger children along. Any brilliant ideas? Valorie Valorie, You’re … Continue reading →

The Fitness Week in Review: November 6-10

It’s been a busy week here in the Fitness blog and we’ve been working hard to bring you as much fitness information as possible: Monday, November 6 We started the week with 10 Reasons to Be Thankful for Fitness including the fact that Daily cardiovascular exercise because it helps me cope with stress and anger, I always had an anger management problem as a child, but daily exercise seems to release a lot of that tension and keeps my anger in check. In Women’s Fitness: The Challenge of Mothers & Daughters discussed the fact that mothers have a dramatic impact … Continue reading →

Family Fitness: Get Back Up

We have special exercise needs. Our families and our children have special exercise needs. Our teenagers have very specific exercise needs and we need to keep this in mind as they develop. They can be far more susceptible to damage from overuse of their joints, bones and muscles during exercise. How many of us have injuries relating back to our teenage years? (I do! I have a bad knee.) Too many of our kids are spending way too much time in front of the television or playing video games online or off. They are not getting the time to run, … Continue reading →